Racers, start your engines. No, no that’s not right. Racers line up your sailboat, which doubles as your house, with the little orange buoy floating in the water, at exactly 11:07AM. That’s your start time. Whatever you do, don’t start…

We saw it.  The famed green flash.  On a very clear evening, just before the sun sinks below the horizon, it really does happen in the Caribbean.  For us, it wasn’t too exciting because the hee hawing donkeys in Barbuda…

We saw an octopus!  He darted this way and that way.  He swam under a coral head.  Then a big greenish blob bulged out from under, followed by tentacles!  Eight legs suctioned along the reef, until woosh, it swam into…

If I could give the world a present it would be to have everyone test negative for COVID 19, quarantine for fourteen days on a sailboat, and then congregate in a place where life is lived in open air.  This…

On Friday November 6, 2020 I wrote this, “Finally, it happened.  Just like they said it would.  Today I found my sea legs!  It’s day four of our passage from Put-In Creak, Virginia to English Harbor, Antigua.  It feels as…

We are leaving the country on Election Day and I’ve never felt more American.  This is because no matter where we are in the world, and no matter who wins the presidency, we are “The Americans.”  I’m not kidding.  That’s…

Did you know a lady blue crab has red painted fingernails?  Neither did we, but it’s true, and there are as many Back Creeks in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland as there are Seal Coves in Penobscot Bay, Maine. But only in…

We’re in The South.  Although they call it the Northern Chesapeake, anywhere with the three C’s- crab pots, cranes and country music is The South to me.  It’s a refreshingly pretty place for us to prepare for our trip to…

We are chasing summer and gaining on her!  In one week, we’ve sailed from Boston to Provincetown, to Martha’s Vineyard, to Block Island, to Sag Harbor.  When that North wind blows, we literally batten down the hatches and go.  This…

Thank you for your time. Yesterday you ushered us out on wind as fast and swift as the night you took us in.  Only this time it was with sunshine and a steady 26 to 30 knots from the West,…

... to remind us ... what we could do, when we can no longer. As of 2020 we still can. Thank you to John and Elaine for hosting us on Great Pond - still and always one of our favorite…

It seemed like a very good idea to quietly creep out of bed and paddle out into the fog that was lifting off the silky smooth ocean this morning. Until the water started breathing.  My mind immediately raced to the…