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Up by 7:30, my sister-in-law makes me a good breakfast, and by 8:30 we are on our way to Aine. I restore the jerry cans and make the boat ready to start the engine. Since we had problems with the engine cooling water I’m going to stay inside for a day or two until everything… Continue reading It begins… Again [Jun 10, 2022]

I decided that I shouldn’t eat breakfast yet since I’ll be diving in about an hour, so I start to prepare for the dive and have a cup of tea. By 7:30 am the current is still moving pretty fast and I’m going to have to wait a little longer. Around 8:00 I move everything… Continue reading A New Plan [Jun 9, 2022]

A normal morning at anchor, and I’m waiting for the diver, at 12:15 pm I get a call, the diver is running a little longer than he thought and it will be more like 2:30 pm, but he will definitely be coming. By 2:30 pm I’ve got nothing, but rather than call again I figure… Continue reading And Another [Jun 8, 2022]

I could tell by the phrases I received from the diver last night that he was likely Hispanic, I spent all last night drawing pictures and translating the labels on the drawings into Spanish. I also wrote up an explanation of the work I need and translated that into Spanish too. I’ll be set for… Continue reading The dominos start to fall. [Jun 7, 2022]

I’m awakened at 5:30 am by the sound of metal clanging, not once, but twice, I sit straight up in bed, remove my CPAP mask and listen again, clanking again, louder this time. I jump out of my bunk and head up the companionway and I see the sailboat behind me sailing up my stern,… Continue reading Crash, did I do that? [Jun 5, 2022

By morning the weather was starting to improve slightly and when I went into the cockpit, I noticed a new sailboat had arrived overnight and was right snugged up behind me, a little closer than I’d like, but I’m not going to complain about it. I dug out the dive mask and fins knowing that… Continue reading It’s the simple things that break your spirit. [Jun 4, 2022]

I woke up early after a very restless night, went to Publix at first light, and shopped for previsions to sustain me for at least a week. I got to the boat at 9:30 am, filled the water tanks, and everything else looked good, I opened up all the ports, turned on the refrigerator, and… Continue reading The nightmare begins. [Jun 3, 2022]

Somehow, without even knowing it, I became what I was trying desperately not to become, an interloper, a carpetbagger, a user… of an old friend’s generosity. There I was, on the wrong side of a line that I had no idea I had crossed. All along, I was thinking that I was keeping to the… Continue reading Florida to North Carolina Prelude [Jun 2, 2022]

Many have probably wondered why in the past weeks and months that nothing was posted. Well, the honest truth is that my computer keyboard got broken, which is in-and-of-itself a telling story. I’ll write about it. As of today, Aine is home in New Bern, but the events that brought her home could fill a… Continue reading The rest of the story…

When you are sitting around waiting for weather to past there is generally not much to do or write about. When I first arrived here there was a boat that decided to create a community of boats and people, who were all here for the same reason… to wait out the strong winds. Most of… Continue reading West Bay, New Providence [Mar 4-6]