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Category Archives: Block Island
Fast trip, slow posts…
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..
Also posted in Chesapeake, Delaware Bay, Off Shore, passages
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Parts is Parts
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..
Also posted in alternator, broken things, hard to find parts
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Falling Behind…and it’s Still Summer!
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..
Also posted in Cuttyhunk, Dutch Harbor, Oak Bluffs, Quonset, Stonington
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Trip Reports – Block Island and Block Island
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..
Also posted in Electronics, Fog
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Field Report #1 – the New Electronics!
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..
Also posted in Cool Gear, Electronics
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Boringest Post Ever
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
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..
Also posted in Dutch Harbor, Rafting
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So other than that how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
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..
Also posted in broken things, spinnaker
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Block Island Redux
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..
Also posted in Stay Sail
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Going Sailing….
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..
Also posted in aground
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