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Children’s Day
March started with a long day of school in 15-20 kts at anchor in Elizabeth Harbor. By 1500 school was completed and it was time to go back to work on Noah’s boat for the competition on Friday. He decided to go for most environmental boat so used items collected from Sand Dollar beach to…
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Sail Pass
Sunday brought a new opening event for Regatta Week – the Sail Pass. All the boats in the harbor, well over 300 at this point, were asked to “dress ship” with all the flags available. The anchorages brightened considerably as thousands of flags were unfurled in the 15 kt breeze. Boats were invited to submit…
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Back in Georgetown
The anchor was up by 0730 and we were motoring, with some regret, toward Indian Head, leaving Thompson Bay behind. We really enjoyed Long Island and would like to go back some day. Rounding the point we raised the main and jib and brought out the camera. Three other boats were also leaving under sail,…
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Exploring Long Island
Stanley was waiting, as promised, with the rental car as we emerged from the cruiser’s trail at high noon. The Honda Civic had a broken trunk latch, courtesy of the last renters, but was otherwise in reasonable condition. Knowing it would take a couple of weeks to get a new latch, the lid now has…
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Cold Front
Greetings from Long Island. We are still in Thompson’s Bay near Salt Pond. Sunday we didn’t leave the boat as we clocked winds at 38 kts making the bay a little too bouncy to be out in the dinghy. We all curled up with good books. Noah finished Harry Potter and the Order of the…
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TOC Xing
Good Morning from Thompson Bay Long Island We played around with web sites on Friday experimenting with what might work better with slow connections. Both Sailblogs.com and Blogger.com work allow posting via email. Sailblogs is geared more towards boating logs and has a very clean interface. The only drawback is a $50 annual fee to…