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Your humble correspondents are taking a short break from work (which is what cruising while being involved full time in the marine business represents) and heading north toward Yellowstone National Park after a short visit to Arizona. We are looking forward to a week of trees, critters who are either hungry, horney, or just unpleasant […]

Hi Steve – This is a question relating to your “past” life at Int’l Fiberglass. We’re huge fans of your statues and even have an A&W Burger Family living in our back yard. We recently added a pair of the Harbie the Seal statues (from the old Harbor Gas stations) and wondered if by chance […]

Cape May, Delaware Bay, and the C and D Canal lie in our wake. Time is short, there is a date on land coming up, and we have only been able to get a sniff of these interesting areas. The locals are out in numbers, taking a last fling at summer freedom. This leads to […]

The various rules to which yachts are built are based on seagoing loads. If you design to ABS or Lloyd’s, odds are you will be OK  offshore, but there is little extra margin for the mistakes which are a part  of cruising. With an ABS keel structure, if you go aground, it is almost certain […]

We have been behind in our reports on how the FPB 64 production is progressing. This batch of photos were taken during August and the first week of September. The lead photo is, in construction industry parlance, the “topping out” of FPB 64-5. The jig built roof structure is being lowered over the window mullions. […]

We’ve known for many years that the best way to cruise is without schedule or preconceived ideas about destinations. Staying flexible, being open to opportunity, and making fewer, in depth stops is the most rewarding of cruising rythms. Our visit to Cumberland Island is a good example of how this is supposed to work.

Spending longer […]

We have put together a high res slide show of some of the photos from Penobscot Bay.
 

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Hi Steve and Linda… we’ve been following you for a few years now, never had a chance to bump into you. We just had on board Peter and Gail from S/V “JABIRU”, good friends of ours since Cuba and we were talking about their experience in the Dismal Swamp. We’ll be going down […]

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The air  is cool and clear, Oyster Bay is once again filled with birds, and the roar of tropical storm Irene is quickly fading from memory. We have a busy couple of weeks ahead with Wind Horse, and then we return to Arizona for a month. Before the lessons learned fade we thought a few […]