My Life
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Anyone who is an adult has probably been through a breakup. Generally, the longer that you’ve been together, the harder the breakup impacts you. Lots of circumstances come into play during a breakup…who is doing the breaking up versus who is being broken up with. While the person doing the breaking up may go through…
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HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS A few days ago when it became obvious that we would be affected by Hurricane Helene, I started to prepare. All the forecasts were showing that here, in Northeast Florida, we would be well away from the center of the storm and should expect only Tropical Storm force winds. I’ve been down this…
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It was in 1985 that the French Franc plunged in value against the US Dollar to about 10 francs per $. It was nice for those of us who sailed to the French Islands in the Caribbean. It meant our money went further, particularly on some of our favorite islands like St. Bart’s. Long a…
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Following our successful wine tasting and importing trip that I wrote about in Part One, I decided that I should follow Parker’s lead, with my own boat, Goelette. I had been planning a down island adventure with one of my best friends, Don. We both enjoyed photography and thought a photo journalist style trip would…
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Sometime around the Fall of 2023, I was driving down a county road headed for Green Cove Springs, the town closest to where I live. Just before I got to the main road heading into the town, I pass a large Commercial marine drilling and bulkhead company named Hammer and Steel. It’s a big operation…
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or The Keel of the Delmar Preface: This is one part of the story of building my boat “Goelette” in Coral Bay, St. John, United States Virgin Islands. This type of boat was known as a “Cowhorn” due to the double ended shape of it’s hull. As the fiberglass hulls of the “Cowhorns” were taking…
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Flying these days, is rarely fun, as my recent trip to Houston proved. Jayne and I are chronic “on time” people and we both would rather be at the airport early, than stress over missing our flight in the event of long TSA lines. We arrived at the airport about 3:00 PM after dropping off…
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That’s Not the REAL MOON, is it? During my years living in the Islands, I was involved in a lot of projects, from building my boat, building houses, cabinets and anything else that would keep my wallet from being empty in an expensive living environment. Most of my income came from doing carpentry work, I…
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Part 1 I served in the US Army from September 1968 to September 1971. I enlisted, but not because I wanted to be a soldier. I enlisted as a survival tactic. in the late 60’s the Vietnam war was chewing up soldiers at an astonishing clip. We had gotten very good at throwing large numbers…
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Novice Navigator’s Tale Waaaay back when, in the Virgin Islands, I had just finished building my 32′ Block Island Schooner and I was ready to go sailing! I had no knot meter, no engine, no radio, no navigation equipment of any kind except for an old (really old) “Taffrail Log” which is basically a propeller…
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