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Five days into our trip to Charleston, we’re enjoying a spate of gorgeous weather – sunny skies, flat water, variable light winds, current going our way for the most part, when an engine room check comes back with less than stellar reviews.  The s…

Good morning my patient friends!It’s been over a year since I last shared my life with you and MUCH has happened during that time.  A sincere thank you to those who asked if I was ok, to those who demanded I get back to this blog, and to those who…

I promise, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth!I’ve been spending 12 hours a day on weekends since we arrived on April 19th moving aboard Olympia for the summer.  There really are not enough hours in the day for this, believe me.  If I ca…

Olympia glided into her slip in Huntington at 12:43 pm on Sunday, April 19th.  My girl’s odyssey is over!Pictures and a wonderful story will follow shortly – I need to pull the many pictures together, unpack, catch up at work and pack up the apart…

Well dear friends and loyal readers, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it now – dreams do come true.Once my flight lands in BWI tomorrow morning at the civilized hour of  7:15 am, Larry from KKY will be taking me to Port Annapolis where I’ll be reu…

Like a love-sick puppy, I check Olympia’s progress no less than several times an hour while I’m awake (I’ve been going to bed quite late this week).Right now (as of 12:10 pm), she is off the coast of North Carolina, sort of opposite Camp Lejune making …

I know, I know, it’s been ages since I last posted.  If I said that my days race by and that my “to do” list would encircle the state of Texas, I would be making a gross understatement!  I have to tell you that I know I owe pictures and a bit…

I think you all know that Montauk is over 100 miles from Manhattan, at the tip of Long Island’s east end on the south fork.  Those 100+ miles might as well be the difference between planets, so diverse is the landscape.  Though Huntington is …

Sorry everyone!  I’ve been waiting for some very special pictures from Olympia’s christening on January 31st.  The photographer is my cousin, a busy neuro radiologist in Sarasota, so I can’t rush him too much.I took a long weekend to visit Mo…

On the day Olympia left for TrawlerFest, even the heavens welcomed her trip by greeting her with the most incredible sunrise.  BTW, this picture is the wallpaper on all my devices!  Being the nit picky captain I am, I called the “crew” and as…