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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”—Henry David Thoreau I discovered this quote when reading Diana Nyad’s inspiring autobiography Find a Way. She achieved her goal as the first person to swim the 111 miles between Havana, Cuba and Key West, Florida, andContinue reading “The Voyage: What I Learned, How I Grew”

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking,Racing around to come up behind you again…. Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. —Pink Floyd, Time, added to the hjsailing playlist Ahoy friends!Continue reading “Back in the Saddle!”

No person will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get themself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a person in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.—Samuel Johnson Happy Mother’s Day everyone! Although I’m missing ColleenContinue reading “There and Back Again”

Those were the parting words from my good friend William when I made my 6:30 AM departure from Little Harbour yesterday. He, Kim and Rachel paddleboarded over to wish me safe passage. Ben cast off my shore lines. I weighed anchor (pulled up the anchor) and was off! They all had their conch trumpets withContinue reading “May Your Boat Sink in Warm and Shallow Waters”

OK…let’s have a quick, lightweight, fun post for a Sunday evening… Late last week, this BVI police boat hove into view around one of the headlands of Little Harbour. While all of us in the bay were pretty sure we were doing what we were supposed to be doing, given the communications and how thingsContinue reading “Uh Oh…Busted!”

I’m comin’ home,Made up my mind that’s what I’m gonna do.Can’t love nobody on the telephone,I’m comin’ home to you. —Robert Earl Keen (added to hjsailing playlist) Author’s Note: While I still have some hurdles to clear prior to my departure and our exact embarkation date is uncertain, once the curfew is lifted, things willContinue reading “I’m Comin’ Home”

Ah, she likes to travel around,She’ll love you and she’ll put you down.Now people let me put you wise,[Hazel] goes out with other guys. —Dion, Runaround Sue (#1 on the Billboard Charts, October 1961), added to hjsailing playlist That blog-post title and song reference goes out to T. McMahon (Terry). He’s my great friend andContinue reading “Runaround Hazel”

In reflection, that’s some ambitious title for this post—let’s hope the subsequent writing can deliver on the promise. I’m over 90 days straight of living on the boat and, given our lockdown, approaching 30 days at anchor in one place so I’ve certainly got the time to do it right. Here goes nothing… You’ve gotContinue reading “Zeitgeist, Collective Grief and The First-Mile Problem”

After that blog post that was a slow-song, tearjerker, I think we’re all in the mood for a dance number. Several weeks ago when I was in Gorda Sound on the Island of Virgin Gorda, BVI, I had a beautiful and photogenic beach walk on Prickly Pear Island. I find that when I get toContinue reading “Prickly Pear Island”

One foot in and one foot back, It don’t pay to live like that.So I cut the ties and jump the tracks,For never to return…. Three words that became hard to say,I and love and you. —The Avett Brothers, I And Love And You I played bass in a rock and pop band for aContinue reading “Mysteries, Sea Glass and Irrational Fears”