In the next weeks, I want to finish the Canadian Adventure, The Jewell Island Fiasco was just the beginning. Suffice it to say, just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. Details to follow, but I assure you there will be midnight dives, midnight docking, 12 knot currents, flying trawlers, flying people, swinging booms, crushing dinghies, crashing seas, the bureaucracies of the world at their best, BoatUS on the edge, Canadian customs, the ever vigilant USCG, pilot ships, thunderstorms, rain, ships passing in the night, lobster pots, lobsters, big tides and of course fog, fog and more fog.
Before all the gory details, I have another issue. I really try to write to my audience, those of you taking the time out of your busy day to read my writings. I try not to just have a travelogue, as the trawler magazines, have that boring niche.
But I do like being responsive to my readers, therefore, please leave comments (if I don’t like them, I can always delete them!) or send me an email if you just want to keep your thoughts, ideas, private between us.
Hopefully, this will be my last week to ten days on the Miami River. I will certainly miss the planes flying overhead as I am just east of Miami International Airport. Reminds me of watching the Mets at Shea Stadium. The planes were nosier back then,
I’ve finished the cap rail project. It was just painting the cap rail and the hand rails. I’ll post some pictures when were all cleaned up and the paravanes are done also.
John and Red have promised me a very nifty, elegant solution for the paravanes and although I had some initial trepidation, I am really looking forward to what they have come up with.
So stay tuned. The bike with the freshly painted orange fenders is my new bike. First new bike since Alaska.
Why orange fenders? I am going to be in Holland next year after all.
Trash bag on the Maimi RiverLittle HavanaIt is the Best Middle Eastern Food EverThe New Bike
I’m an eclectic person, who grew up in New York, lived overseas for many years and have a boat, Dauntless, a 42 foot Kadey Krogen trawler yacht. Dauntless enables me to not only live in many different parts of the world, but to do it in a way that is interesting, affordable, with the added spice of a challenge.
Dauntless also allows me to be in touch with nature. As the boat glides through the ocean, you have a sense of being part of a living organism. When dolphins come to frolic, they stay longer if you are out there talking to them, watching them. Birds come by, sometimes looking for a handout; sometimes grateful to find a respite from their long journey.
I grew up on the New York waterfront, in the West Village, when everything west of Hudson St. was related to shipping and cargo from around the world. For a kid, it was an exciting place of warehouses, trucks, and working boats of all kinds: tugs and the barges and ships, cargo and passenger, they were pushing around.
My father was an electrical engineer, my mother an intellectual, I fell in between.
I have always been attracted to Earth’s natural processes, the physical sciences. I was in 8th grade when I decided to be a Meteorologist.
After my career in meteorology, my natural interest in earth sciences: geology, astronomy, geography, earth history, made it a natural for me to become a science teacher in New York City, when I moved back to the Big Apple. Teaching led to becoming a high school principal to have the power to truly help kids learn and to be successful not only in school but in life.
Dauntless is in western Europe now. In May and June, I will be wrapping up the last two years in northern Europe, heading south to spend the rest of the year in Spain & Portugal.
Long term, I’m planning on returning to North American in the fall of 2017 and from there continuing to head west until we’re in Northeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, where we will settle for a bit.
But now, my future lies not in NY or even Europe, but back to the water, where at night, when the winds die down, there is no noise, only the silence of the universe. I feel like I am at home, finally.
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Anyway, what I wanted to say is that I love the orange fenders! Real Dutch!!!
Wait a minute, I thought the orange fenders were the rubber things on the side of the boat that keep you from crashing into the dock. I guess this is why I never got my boat crew qualification.
Dauntless at Sea 
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that I love the orange fenders! Real Dutch!!!
Wait a minute, I thought the orange fenders were the rubber things on the side of the boat that keep you from crashing into the dock. I guess this is why I never got my boat crew qualification.
Me neither, I wondered why they were not springy!