When we bought Aquatania, her life raft was expired and we purchased another. To decommission the old one, we took it out to a field (we were on the hard) and yanked the line, and RAN while it self-inflated. Eye-opening sitting inside a kiddie pool with a flimsy parachute roof thinking, “Yeah, this’ll save me. […]
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The season used to last mid-June to the beginning of November. But the last few years, the experts stretched hurricane season an extra six weeks, like an anxiety-inducing taffy pull, from June 1st through November 30th. As I write this post, we sit at the midpoint of what started as a “slightly below average” season,
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I think Marsh Harbour is trying to kill me. Once upon a time I came to a Bahamian archipelago called the Abacos, a collection of one main island, Great Abaco, surrounded by neighboring limestone cays outlining the Sea of Abaco like a dot-to-dot puzzle. The capital of this region, Marsh Harbour, sat upon the northeastern
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Today was chore day: dinghy into town with four loads of laundry, hit the ATM, and provision (fancy boat term for grocery shopping). This last chore turned into a 3-pronged approach: go to cheaper market, then go to fancier market for any items first store didn’t have in stock, but dinghy back over to first
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