Category: Travel

The Final Countdown!

June 27, 2012

It’s almost the end of June and that means we are shoving off in less than a week.  The original goal was to leave Annapolis Tuesday evening, BUT Chris has been in Annapolis since last Tuesday and she has been working so hard and been so successful at getting our long, long list of to

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Stormy Weather

June 3, 2012

One of the things we get asked constantly by non-sailors and even some sailors is “what about storms?” or more specifically “what about hurricanes?” It hasn’t helped matters that for the first time in recorded history both the Eastern Pacific and the Atlantic had their first named storms of the year before June 1st. While

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Welcome to the 21st Century

May 22, 2012

Times, they are a changing, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident then onboard a sailboat far, far from land.  Access to “data” has changed so much in the last 15 years, that basically nothing I knew when we cruised on Earendil is relevant today.  So, I’ve had to get up to speed on all

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Contemplating an Atlantic crossing

May 21, 2012

I met Justin sailing, and one of the first conversations we ever had had to do with sailing to remote places, over the big ocean.  Adventure appealed to both of us then, and it has kept us wandering in the 17 years since we met. For the past few months, we’ve been focused on bluewater

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Atlantic High

May 20, 2012

Credit for the title to William F. Buckley who wrote an enjoyable little book about his sailing called “Atlantic High”. We bought Shearwater 7 months ago.  She is in Annapolis, MD.  We live in Madrid, Spain.  We really like living in Europe.  It would be great if Shearwater was over here in Europe with us. 

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The real test – 30 hours of sailing!

May 15, 2012

Projects are great, but in the end, the goal is to let loose the lines on a boat – and let it take you places. Originally, we wanted to take the boat from Annapolis to Newport, RI on this trip, and our preparations were focused on this.  On Saturday evening, April 21st, we had managed

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Two people, 3000 miles apart…technology miracles and headaches

May 12, 2012

Our goals for this trip were to get lots of things done on our “list” as well as learn as much as possible about our boat.  What to do when we’ve staggered our arrivals, and need to be communicating nearly real-time on decisions that were important for both of us to be involved in? Enter

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