Like a Kid
I feel like a kid because I’m with my sweet heart and we’re crunched into a tiny train seat with our huge back packs piled up under our feet and over our heads. We’re sweaty, farily dirty, very hot (real…
No Sails Required
For a brief three days we had both our children home! We are thrilled for them and their adventures, but it is sure great when they stay still long enough to be in the same place at the same time. …
Most Elegant Motor Yacht?
I think Watch Hill is home of the most elegant Motor Yacht. One beautiful boat.
Fish Stories to Come
There is lots of low level cursing coming from the port aft cabin, or ‘workroom’ as we call it. Grunting whispers of, “sonuvabitch, O’comm’n and aaww shit.” Yup, the pleasantries of another boat project is what I am hearing. This…
Escaping the Flies
It’s raining cats and dogs! It’s fun. Early this morning Michael went out in his bathing suit to take our window shades off so we could watch the rain. The rains stopped, I quickly checked the radar and we decided…
Work Day Bonus
According the the Ships Log we have sailed in and out of Mamaroneck Harbor 32 times. It wasn’t until this mornings’ pre-workday paddle that we noticed a small inlet to the North. Like Alice falling down the hole, we dropped…
Just Fun
Light winds, Happy Sail up! Just a jaunt to Rye Harbor for some silliness with John and Stacey. Double paddle into the marshlands. Luckily for us wobbly paddlers water was warm and nice for a swim. Great guests bring pie…
Sister Sail
My sister is one of those people that wakes up happy. So it makes sense that a weather forecast of scattered T-storms Friday, and heavy rain Friday night into Saturday did not deter her. Bonnie (dressed ‘saily’ in all the…
“Best Blog Entry Ever”
Pay attention cause as promised this is "The Best Blog Entry Ever". The crew: Leslie (hot pink bikini top, matching shorts, matching hot pink lipstick, grocery bag of yummy stuff), Jack (teenage garb, phone, sunglasses), Charlie (tweenage garb, phone, sunglasses),…
Strong Breezes
Plan to sail - Niantic to Sheffield Islands. Twenty-five knots from the East. This means big fetch. While Michael happily futzed with polled out jib, sheeted the happy sail through the end of boom and put two reefs in mainsail,…
Old Friend / Young Sailor
We are thrilled to acknowledge Ethan as our youngest sailor yet! Ethan, who is five or six (we can’t remember) was kind enough to have a mooring set up for us in Niantic. We felt like royalty when the launch…
9 Days and Still Floating High
June 29-30 Mamaroneck, NY to Jamestown, RI Joshua and I loaded Dirty with a week's provisions and readied Gerty for our 6:00pm departure. The sun has set and now i’m on my first night watch. Ever. I figured I better write…