T hings go a little off course from time to time. Sometimes it's weather, sometimes it's just life. For reasons that will eventually be...

Having just arrived at Florida's northern border to the pretty town of Fernandina beach, we took a much-needed break. The boat had been...

When it comes to sailing, you will most certainly find yourself in an unexpected situation when you come down with the common ailment of...

We always looked at the ICW as an "easy way out". Days on end of constant motoring seemed like a special kind of torture to us, but...

Havre de Grace is the gateway to the Chesapeake Bay, and sits just past the west end of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. It is a...

It's been a minute since our last post, and there are a few reasons for that. We have a backlog to make up from the mouth of the...

When it comes to passages, I'm not a huge fan of night sailing. Now before all you salty sailors out there go judging me, hear me out....

After our brief stop in Block Island, we made the overnight passage from the Great Salt Pond to Centerport, NY. For those who do not...

Things were already getting too chilly for comfort up in Maine. We started this trip imagining that warm, clear blue water was right...

Hurricane Henri came and went without much drama. In Quahog bay we didn't see more than 20 knots on the anchor and all we got was the...

While we were in Portsmouth we tried to pick the brains of any other boaters we could find for some good Maine destinations. Portsmouth...

The usual format for these posts has been one for every two places we've visited. The reason for that is because on the way north, lots...

Going north of Cuttyhunk you could choose to go around Cape Cod and visit Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket on the way, but few people do....

We first visited Newport towards the end of last season, as we brought Shiloh to Barrington for the winter. There is a definite smell of...

It's been a while since the last post and there's good reason for that. It's been a whirlwind of projects on board and off. Moving out of...

At the risk of this becoming strictly a boat maintenance blog, this latest episode was meant to be installation of autopilot components...

Shiloh is a 1983 Freedom 39 Pilothouse Schooner. She's been maintained very well over the years and we're only the third owners. Before...

Five or six years ago, we had just started settling into our proper post-college/military jobs back home in New York, which seemed like a...