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plodding in paradise: InTheStream
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. My column, InTheStream, was published in Classic Yacht. Online magazine from May 2012 to July 2014. The column tracks my first year of cruising, pondering the lessons I learned along the way - the hard way. The overall theme mirrors the book I'm writing about the life lessons that come calling when a 50-something woman deep sixes her whole life and follows a dream. May '12) PDF Version. July '12) PDF Version. Sept '12) PDF Version. Nov '12) PDF Version.
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plodding in paradise: PLEASANT SURPRISES
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Saturday, October 30, 2010. An Island Packet 35, passing us on the ICW. Beaufort, NC 34°42.911N 76°39.815W. It would have been a short, sad story: "Cruising adventure lasts only one week. Couple sinks boat at anchorage in Beaufort. Film at 11.". It's the kind of thing you think about when you hear a scraping bump in the night, but it was only a shift in the current, the chain dragging, the anchor resetting. I can just imagine Cara Mia. A NOTE TO READE...
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plodding in paradise: INTO THE CITY
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Sunday, November 7, 2010. Price Creek, SC 32º54.119N 75º40.277W. Sunrise over Price Creek, SC. Today is a day I had been looking forward to - for a very long time. Our plod south has taken us through charming little Carolina town after charming little Carolina town. Having spent the last 6 months in Manteo, perhaps the most charming of all, I was about up to here in, well, don't make me say it again. Who radioed back to us to get our camera ready.
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plodding in paradise: CARA MIA: Population 2
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Thursday, October 28, 2010. CARA MIA: Population 2. Beaufort, NC 34°42.911N 76°39.815W. Living aboard reminds me a lot of living in Manhattan. I know, that's 8,008,276 more people than we have onboard, but, wait, I can explain. When you step outside your door in the city, you have to be prepared to react to whatever comes your way. No two days are the same; no two days require the same skill set. Our last boat, didn't have an electric windlass, so typ...
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plodding in paradise: CHANGING RHYTHM
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Thursday, October 28, 2010. I never enjoyed "chores" so much. photo by Chip. Beaufort, NC 34°42.911N 76°39.815W. Land rhythm is slowly dripping out the ends of our fingers. Each hop away from our home dock takes a little more of the jangle out of our nerves. We spend hours a day caring for the boat that cares for us, doing chores that on land might seem like drudgery but afloat seem almost sporting. The last time we were in Beaufort, three years into ...
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plodding in paradise: MOMENTUM
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Monday, October 25, 2010. Engelhard, NC 35°509N 75°989W. Sailing into the sunrise out of Engelhard, NC. The happy flow of our lives is so corny that I feel compelled to leave out a lot of the sappy details. For instance, yesterday I was embarrassed to include the part about the rising sun striking the water, scattering a million sparkling Tinkerbells in our wake. And later? I'm pleased to report there have been no rainbows - yet. Is 50% an 'F'? I was ...
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plodding in paradise: PEOPLE ON THE EDGE
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. PEOPLE ON THE EDGE. Oriental, NC 35°0248N 76°6948W. Today we opted for a layover day, a short respite after an arduous 7-day frenzy of leave-taking preparation and two long days of slogging down the Pamlico. My goals for the day:. It's a good thing this blog starts with the successful accomplishment of a 10-year goal lest I look like a pitiful failure. Then, with a squall on our heels,. The barista, June, told us that someti...
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plodding in paradise: SAILING AWAY: Year One, Phase One
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Saturday, May 17, 2014. SAILING AWAY: Year One, Phase One. If you are here to dream a little dream of sailing, then I'm here to help! That is, after all, how my dream came to life:. And if you're interested in how we arranged our lives to go sailing, there's a whole other blog for that, called ploddingTOparadise. SAILING AWAY: Year One, Phase One. Down the ICW, Manteo NC to Miami FL. DAY ONE: Our New World. Manteo NC to Engelhard NC October 24, 2010.
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plodding in paradise: A CLOSE SHAVE
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Southport, NC 35º55.038N 78º01.720W. Such drama, from the beginning. Some days I could conquer the world and serve it up on a toothpick. Other days, well, other days are like today. Add to that the fact that we had been flying high on adrenaline the last few days, and today I came down hard from the trip. Our first omen was when we went on deck to shove off into a cold, gray day and saw this behind us:. Just as the depth ala...
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plodding in paradise: SKINNY WATERS
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SAILING: Year One, Phase One. ICW SAILING: Phase Two. Saturday, November 6, 2010. Georgetown, SC 33º21.664N 79º16.822W. I am not surprised we ran aground today. I am. The waterway guidebook states that tides and currents become more extreme as you head south, so as we plan our route each day, we note the high and low tide information at the points along our path. We flew out of Georgetown on high tide, making great time down the Waccamah River and into the ICW. Clever planning on Chip's part? My first sh...
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