Monthly Archives: October 2012

Safe, Happy, and Damp

By B.J. | Published October 30, 2012

Sandy is gone – and good bye and good riddance to that. Given all the scenes of devastation and destruction we saw as this storm passed through I’m happy to report that we passed through this at anchor completely unscathed.  As it turns out we picked a pretty protected spot, Read On..

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Waiting for it…

By B.J. | Published October 28, 2012

We’re sitting where the arrow is…the X was where we first arrived in this river. Most of the work of a hurricane is getting ready for it.  All the prep takes time, whether it’s for your house of your boat.  Having owned a waterfront house and a boat, I can Read On..

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Yes, This Really is a Test

By B.J. | Published October 27, 2012

Blogging while remote. Blogger does have some capabilities to blog say, from your iPhone, or from anything that sends an e-mail in. While I find the idea of blogging by iPhone to be quite awful (like I don’t already have punctuation, spelling, grammar and proof reading issues if I invite Read On..

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Ruh Roh

By B.J. | Published October 26, 2012

Thank you to Weather Underground for the scary map. Yeah, there’s this hurricane coming.  Looks like it will probably make landfall North of us though we should expect some hairy weather for a couple of days.  Sustained high winds, mostly – the hurricane surges aren’t going to bother us that Read On..

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Hard Aground in Oxford

By B.J. | Published October 21, 2012

Waiting for our generator fix, we’re stuck here in Oxford.  Literally, we are hard aground…though only twice a day for a few hours.  And it’s more like “squishy aground” since while the slip we are in has a controlling depth of about seven feet (we need about eight feet of Read On..

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Rhymes with "Generator"

By B.J. | Published October 19, 2012

A larger and considerably cleaner generator than ours. So does anyone have a good phrase for me that rhymes with “Generator Oil Leak” because I’m thinking Bad Poetry in the Epic format may be the only way to make this entertaining. One of the reason that our blog posts have Read On..

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Annapolis and the Boat Show

By B.J. | Published October 17, 2012

Two weeks following the SSCA Gam were spent kicking around in the general area of Annapolis.  This was mostly planned, because the Annapolis Sailboat Show is one of the best in the country and a Mecca for anyone that is even vaguely interested in sailing.  To people like us, it’s Read On..

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Gammin’

By B.J. | Published October 3, 2012

What the heck is a Gam?gam  (gm) n. 1. A social visit or friendly interchange, especially between whalers or seafarers. 2. A herd of whales or a social congregation of whalers, especially at sea. Last weekend we enjoyed our first Seven Seas Sailing Association (SSCA) Gam.  The SSCA is an Read On..

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The Rest of the Trip to Annapolis…

By B.J. | Published October 1, 2012

…really wasn’t all that exciting. We decided on anchoring after the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal that we wanted to “get up early” and get going, since it was still a ways to Annapolis – somewhat over 50 (nautical) miles.  Which is a decent day’s trip when you are only covering Read On..

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