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Mr. Winch Handle 27 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
A friend jokingly referred to me as “Mr. Winch Handle here…” after a spear fishing expedition where I attached a heavy metal winch handle to my belt. Besides the fact I look styling with a shiny obje...
Close Encounters with Channel Marker 9 20 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
Another story from our “Don’t Be That Guy” series: We were leaving the Deltaville, VA channel on a brisk October day last year when we felt a thump bump. Despite Tig and my best efforts to stay on co...
Watching from the side of land 18 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
A year ago, we were water gypsies, coming and going on a vast blue highway. Now we are on the other side. The side of land. First our visit from Donna and Bill, of sv Moonraker, whom we met at Blackp...
First riding lesson 24 Jul 2013 | 12:40 pm
V on small pony from Serena on Vimeo. I found this video of V on her first pony ride. She was about one-and-a-half years old, and I was pregnant with O. I’m sure there’s a horse-loving gene somewher...
Mud Kitchen 18 Jul 2013 | 05:10 am
When we were living on the boat, the kids used their imaginations and created play kitchens out of rings of gravel and juniper berries, or a brick and mulch. After all, we had sold our handmade wooden...
Strawberry fields forever 4 Jul 2013 | 08:55 pm
Happy Fourth of July.
And now we are in Maine 28 Jun 2013 | 04:05 am
Several months ago, we landed our dinghy in Warderick Wells Land and Sea Park, Exumas (Bahamas). A few minutes later, a woman came over. “I know who you are.” The woman was Diana, mom to Ben (our frie...
Our experience as an “Asian American cruising family” 6 Jun 2013 | 06:52 am
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re not white. And what is the significance of that, you say? Well…it’s because 99% of the cruisers we meet on the eastern seaboard *appear* to be white. (Do I know that...
Blue baby makeover 3 Jun 2013 | 06:57 am
I made Blue Baby for V’s second Christmas. She was made from thrift store clothes (a skin-colored T-shirt and a blue-striped knit sweater). Her head was stuffed with a discarded wool sweater. V loved ...
Road Trip 16 May 2013 | 07:28 am
Well life is changing rapidly for us, to say the least. We are in chilly Isleboro, Maine. There are a few more cruising related articles I wanted to write before closing this chapter (stay tuned). But...
