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No, I’m not talking about NASCAR. But rather that we’ve been on one tack, literally, since leaving Hampton, VA. We started out on port tack with main, Genoa and staysail.  We’ve not had to tack or jib once.  Briefly this afternoon we hove to in order to straighten a few Read On..

– You said wind twice. – I like wind. Usually I do. Evenstar is a tough, heavy boat and she does well with a stiff breeze.  And that we’ve had today and then some. Remember the discussion on “Fetch” we had back during hurricane Sandy?  Wind + open water = Read On..

We’re now a little past a line drawn from Cape Hatteras to Bermuda.  Bermuda is actually closer at about 110 nautical miles, versus 130 NM from Hatteras. Today some of us broke out the shorts and T-Shirts for the first time; it’s gotten quite pleasant.   Clear blue skies with Read On..

We entered the Gulf Stream around 0830 this morning. If the wind holds we should be out of it by the end of the day. To date winds have been lighter than anticipated, though the seas state still has some pretty good sized (8-12′) rollers every now and then.  Last Read On..

Well, we’re off.  Currently we are “motor slogging” towards the Gulf Stream with light winds almost behind us.   Hopefully the wind will pick up a bit over night.  Motor sailing is about my least favorite way to travel, especially down wind because the wind serves to ensure that your Read On..

More waiting… Sandy, keeping it real and bottoming out the barometer. After riding out Hurricane Sandy and sitting around for a few days, we are now once again waiting for the weather to be just right. This time of course it is for the Big Trip, our passage from North Read On..

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..

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..

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..

Short post this morning, as we are heading South for the Chesapeake in an hour or so.  I’ve been remiss in my posts for the last week and a half because it’s been, well not super exciting. We stopped by “home”, and I put that in quotes because it’s didn’t Read On..