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Our Cape Dory 27: April 2012
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Our Cape Dory 27. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Other People's Mistakes and Lessons Learned Therefrom. It Started Like This. Coffee to start the work weekend at The Boat Yard. All I can think of is how great our boat will look on the mooring out there. What's Under All That Paint? That was the first weekend. A look at the stern and the ill-fated outboard well the PO tried to create. Note that the antifouling line comes up just high enough to cover it up. So they likely hauled the boat right out and "fixed" th...
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John Vigor's Blog: Finding the right balance
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July 31, 2015. Finding the right balance. A READER in Anchorage, Alaska, who calls himself or herself “Iceberg” asks if I could repeat a column I recently wrote about balance in sailboats. Well, I don’t remember writing about that subject recently, but I did write about it many years ago. So here’s hoping that this is what you’re after, Iceberg:. Seaworthiness is the happy result of a lot of factors but there is one that is often overlooked. It’s called balance. So what do we mean by balance? He added th...
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Michals-Brown Adventures: Lessons from Cold, Wet Camping
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Saturday, October 29, 2016. Lessons from Cold, Wet Camping. Some lessons learned from a little Columb us Day weekend. That turned a lot rainier than expected. My sailing rig was useless in the light headwind, and was in the way on the port coaming, forcing me to paddle only on the starboard side. After hot coffee and oatmeal, I packed up and loaded the boat, only changing into dry clothes just before leaving. What did I learn, or relearn? The most useful light I have ever owned. Put that thing on you...
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Michals-Brown Adventures: June 2012
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Saturday, June 30, 2012. Around Cape Cod: Day 5. Provincetown: the bar we grounded on is the light diagonal line extending from inside the middle of Long Point. The dike we walked runs from inside end of Long Point to the edge of downtown. I slept a little late, convinced we would be staying in Provincetown this day, come what may. I climbed out, refreshed, at about seven to find we were aground on a bar a little distance from the beach. We ate breakfast and read while the rain pattered occasionally.
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Michals-Brown Adventures: September 2013
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Sunday, September 29, 2013. Nemasket River, Saturday, September 21st. We launched on the Nemasket where it crosses the east-west road on the bottom right. The Nemasket runs 5 miles further, then empties into the Taunton River at upper left. I've been thinking about the Nemasket River ever since, on a float trip. Two winters ago, I passed its mouth where it enters the Taunton River. But on. That was all the push I needed. We were late getting off at Oliver Mills on Saturday, September twenty-first, partly...
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Michals-Brown Adventures: January 2013
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Saturday, January 12, 2013. Christmas in El Paso. Been quiet here, I know. Off-season. So no appologies for a non-boat post: our Christmas trip to El Paso, TX. Gathered in the home of our hosts, Mary Helen and Art and their son Owen, were us and our three boys, Teresa and Robert and their two kids, and the Pater and Mater Familias, Ed and Vivian. Brother Ed and his wife Sheryl, and brother Chris and his wife Glenda couldn't get away. Prickly pear and the strange, gangly ocotillo. If this isn't exciting e...
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Michals-Brown Adventures: Fairhaven to Martha's Vineyard
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015. Fairhaven to Martha's Vineyard. My only sailing trip this season was occasioned by a family friend with a teenage son. Eric is a small-boat racing sailor, but wanted to see the more relaxed, recreational side of sailing. I, for my part, do not usually “go sailing,” but sail to places—usually over a period of days. Terns- I think- in a feeding frenzy. West Island is a nice little destination. In itself; mostly wild salt marsh and meadow. Is this a waterspout? Eric plots us a co...
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Michals-Brown Adventures: March 2012
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Thursday, March 1, 2012. Long Pond in February. I have now been out on the water in every month of the year except January. Mind you, I keep telling myself I have nothing to prove- and then I go out and prove things. "Do I contradict myself? Then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." (Ralph Waldo Emerson). I had planned several winter trips without accomplishing any: a daytime float in. This would not only be my official sail for February, but also the first time. Sailed in over a year.
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Michals-Brown Adventures: Kayak Overnight
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Friday, August 8, 2014. The white line shows my rough track. I've never traveled overnight by kayak. Last winter I planned an overnight using my two-man kayak, Serendipity. Even going as far as loading gear into the drybag- but circumstances prevented. I still wanted to go kayak camping, and it occurred to me that, with the lighter gear requirements of summer camping, I might be able to cram enough stuff into my single-seater, Musketaquid. But Google Earth showed this particular bit of river bank to be u...
