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The Sailing Life: Chester, the Walled Roman City
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Sunday, February 03, 2013. Chester, the Walled Roman City. Looking along the wall towards Newgate. Explanation board for Newgate. Newgate from the north wall. Newgate looking out from the city. Looking along River Dee towards Handbridge. Handbridge from the downstream side. A view of Chester Castle. A better view of Chester Castle. You can't get a real feel of the massiveness it projects, though. Another view of the water tower.
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The Sailing Life: My First Day in England and Moel Famau
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Monday, January 07, 2013. My First Day in England and Moel Famau. Well, my flight to England was uneventful, just as I like it. The flight to Amsterdam was on an Airbus A330 which was so quiet I didn't need my sound cancelling headphones. I was really amazed. Also it was fairly short, as these things go being just about 7 hours. Moel Famau trail map. View from Jubilee Tower looking towards Liverpool. Of 280 meters. It took a...
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The Sailing Life: Haulout!
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Thursday, April 22, 2010. This post will be fairly short - it's about something that's done so frequently that most of the terror is gone for veteran boat owners. Still, as your home comes out of the water on a couple of spindly looking straps. The staff is all very pleasant - the yard guys are friendly and helpful and the office staff take the time to talk if they're not running to catch a boat or some other service. I had arri...
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The Sailing Life: May 2009
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. A Haul Out and Much More. The last month has been a whirlwind - a trip up the Hudson River to White's Marina in New Hamburg, NY, a trip to England, a haul out, return trip down the Hudson, Memorial Day weekend at Mystic, CT and finally just now flying to Savannah, GA to pick up a boat for a delivery to Connecticut. There's no real wonder I didn't post earlier. But here goes. That wasn't the problem; and th...
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The Sailing Life: April 2010
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Friday, April 30, 2010. McClellanville, SC to Surf City, NC. I was not disappointed! It was a great greasy spoon named, appropriately, the McClellanville Diner. The food was good, the service friendly, and the coffee spectacular. Thumbs up on this one. The wind continually lightened so sailing was out. Still, the seas were kind of lumpy from the days of 20 kt winds. Nevertheless, the moonrise was absolutely spectacular! Naturall...
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The Sailing Life: December 2009
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Monday, December 21, 2009. Beaufort, South Carolina to Brunswick, Georgia. As I write this I am comfortably ensconced in Brunswick Landing Marina, Brunswick Georgia. It's a beautiful, well run marina and my new 424 buddy, Lee Yonkers is berthed just across the finger from me! But getting here was not so easy, my friends. It's a tale of heavy winds, driving rain, freezing temperatures and long, lonely watches. A half hour after i...
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The Sailing Life: November 2009
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Saturday, November 21, 2009. More Charleston and the Engine Gets Quieter. The Ravenel Bridge is a new replacement bridge in Charleston that I-17 runs over. It's one of those new concrete suspension bridges and it replaces a steel trestle bridge. Like most of Charleston, it's pedestrian and bike friendly with a path for both on the south side of the bridge. The view of the harbor is spectacular! After discussing the problem with ...
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The Sailing Life: Vero Beach to McClellanville
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Friday, April 30, 2010. Vero Beach to McClellanville. It was with a heavy heart I left Vero Beach and my friends Lee and Karen (and of course Gracie). A sunny and warm day to travel up the ICW to the first day's goal, Titusville. I'd been in touch with my friend Doug who was coming down to New Bern and we had decided to meet somewhere on the trip. Anyway, after a couple of days I was itchy to get going. So off I went. Th...I got...
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The Sailing Life: Vero Beach
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Friday, April 30, 2010. As much fun as I had at Indiantown Marina I knew I had to be moving along. I wanted to see my friends Lee and Karen again before I made my way home. As it turns out, I got to see John and Paula and my cousin as well. Traveling down the St. Lucie river is easy and you can watch mile by mile as the terrain changes from the wilds of central Florida to the relatively urban setting of Stuart. It is als...Here ...