As 2017 comes to a close, I find myself thinking about its beginning. Lying in bed on the morning of the first day of the new year, 1 January 2017, I luxuriated in being on a motionless bed. I thought about the last month. It was only a month ago, that I was waiting forContinue reading “Always Forward”
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An Uneventful Trip
(The below was written last week, while underway, midway between St. Vincent in the Grenadines and Bonaire) It’s about time! Anyone who looks at a weather map can see that the passage from the eastern Caribbean to the Dutch Antilles is pretty much the same conditions as the Atlantic from the Caries to the Caribbean.Continue reading “An Uneventful Trip”
Dauntless Summer Cruise 2015 Day 03 Scilly to France
We got up early to take advantage of the calm winds and little boat traffic. Dauntless rolled a bit last night on the mooring ball, so I put the paravanes out. They decreased the roll a bit, certainly dampened it, like shock absorbers on a car, but these particular fish (or birds) are made toContinue reading “Dauntless Summer Cruise 2015 Day 03 Scilly to France”
