Category Archives: Block Island

Fast trip, slow posts…

By B.J. | Published September 30, 2012

Certainly I’ve been a little remiss in catching up my my blog posts, but we’ve been busy since we hit the Chesapeake.  The trip down here was surprisingly uneventful.  Fun, pretty fast, and really almost two separate trips tacked together. Leaving Block Island behind was in some ways more nostalgic Read On..

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Parts is Parts

By B.J. | Published November 24, 2011

One of the many items on the to-do list is to assemble a list of spares.  In some remote parts of the world, if you can believe this, Federal Express does not guarantee delivery by 10:00 a.m. next business day.  In fact I’ve experienced just that in the wilderness of Read On..

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Falling Behind…and it’s Still Summer!

By B.J. | Published August 16, 2010

Here it is mid August and I’ve not posted an update since mid June.  It’s not that we’ve been idle, just the opposite – we’ve been quite busy.  Every available weekend we’ve been somewhere and even some unavailable ones.  I will try to assemble a brief trip log here, time Read On..

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Trip Reports – Block Island and Block Island

By B.J. | Published June 15, 2010

Yeah, it sounds a little repetitive.  But Block Island at this time of year is nice.  It’s a little too cool for the beaches but there aren’t any crowds.  All of the restaurants are pretty much open and there are few waits.  The only crowds are associated with sail boat Read On..

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Field Report #1 – the New Electronics!

By B.J. | Published June 3, 2010

So the Memorial Day trip to Block Island gave us a chance to check out the new electronics and see how it all works.  It was a clear beautiful weekend and a gorgeous trip out and back, perfect conditions to test and play.  Being able to see with the MkI Read On..

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Boringest Post Ever

By B.J. | Published July 14, 2009

This weekend we went to Block Island. Nothing Broke. Nothing was destroyed. Nothing caught on fire. There was no fog. An excellent and relaxing time was had by all. We did have some minor drama when anchored next to Mr. “Chapman’s says I should have 7 to 1 scope dammit Read On..

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Neglecting the good Stuff

By B.J. | Published July 8, 2009

So I’ve done it once again – filled all of your heads with all the horrendous things I’ve done to my poor boat while neglecting to point out that the other 99% of the trip was really, really nice. OK, 90% anyway, we had a lot of fog. All the Read On..

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So other than that how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

By B.J. | Published July 7, 2009

Until some time this afternoon I was fairly convinced that we had utterly destroyed the spinnaker this past weekend. While there is little evidence to the contrary as far as my sail maker is concerned, we have set the cruising spinnaker on this boat and on our last boat several Read On..

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Block Island Redux

By B.J. | Published June 16, 2009

It just doesn’t feel like summer has started until we make a pilgrimage to Block Island. Of course, it didn’t particularly feel like summer on Block Island either. Too damned cold. Finally we did make it back though, a bit later and a bit more frenetic than usual but we Read On..

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Going Sailing….

By B.J. | Published May 22, 2009

The deck might still look like hell, but we’re going sailing this weekend! Well, in some places it looks quite nice but we don’t exactly have a good gestalt effect of WOW! yet since more than half of it is still un-sanded. But we’re getting there. If you put your Read On..

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