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Sole Mates III sails to Maine
Bristol, RI - Gloucester Harbor,MA -Portsmouth NH - Portland,ME -Christmas Cove-Tennents Harbor- BoothBay,Maine Snow Isand - Sebasco Estates -Biddeford - Portsmouth,NH - Glouste...
May 01, 2009: Left Gloucester at 7:00 and headed south at 102 degrees. After 34 nm we broke the 400+ miles for this trip. Sandra loves to shop in Scituate, so you know where we went after arrival… The day was sunny with very light winds out of the south-south west. No whales, seals or sharks…This is Wendy’s Dream’s home port so the fleet will be down to one tomorrow. We wil... » read more
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A year aboard S/V Harmony
July 15th 2009 we move aboard S/V Harmony for a year. We will be hanging around cape cod and the islands for the rest of the summer, then heading south to the Florida Keys for ...
June 01, 2010: Heading south again from Marsh Harbor we sailed about 25 miles to Little Harbor, the last stop in the protected Sea of Abaco before the 50 mile jump across the 12000 foot deep Northeast Providence Channel to the island of Eleuthera. We visited Eleuthera about 13 years ago, just after we got married and stayed in a resort for the whole week without leaving the compound, or seeing any of th... » read more
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Season 2 of Lana's Adventures
This year, the plan is to sail to Baltimore and then finally arrive in Bradenton, Fl.
July 29, 2010: The sail from Delaware City to the Sasafras River was pretty much uneventful, except for the fact that we grounded ourselves once and ran into the dock at the Skipjack Cove Yachting Resort. It is a good thing the bottom is sandy. During the course of our docking our dinghy briddle got caught in our motor propeller. As I got into the dinghy and prepared to un ... » read more
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Newport-Bermuda Race 2010
The crew of High Noon race from Newport, Rhode Island to Bermuda in the Atlantic ocean classic affectionately known as the "Bash to the Onion Patch".
June 29, 2010: The race is scored using two different scoring systems. The difference is in how the boats are compared with one another, which determines the “corrected time” which is used to level the playing field between all the different boats. Each system has it’s pros and cons, so we’re scored under each and there are prizes for each scoring method.Using the IRC system, we ... » read more
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Dawn Star: Transatlantic Race 2011
Come aboard with Will and Bill Hubbard and the crew of the C&C Baltic 46 Dawn Star as we race 2975 nautical mles from Newport, RI to the Lizard, UK in the 2011 edition of the Tr...
July 16, 2011: With five miles to go, we hailed the race committee, who were standing by in the Lizard point lighthouse, waiting to mark our arrival across the finish line. As we sailed into the gloomy night, we were buoyed by the possibility of a win on this long race. As the time passed, we practiced taking bearings from the bow so we could announce our arrival across the line per the race committee’... » read more
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