Oriental NC
Sailing to Shackleford: The Adventure Begins With a Sinking
The last thing my wife Julia said as I pushed our two kayaks into the water instead of loading them onto the deck of our Nimble 24 sailboat Grit was, “Are you sure you want to tow the kayaks behind the boat?” I assured her that, yes, I did.

Brother Sister Dory Story
Siblings don’t usually live together on a 23 foot open boat. In winter. During a pandemic. But that’s what I recently wrote about for a story I wrote for TownDock.net.
I’ve written a lot for them over the years, from a fifty-foot cruiser with pizza pan portholes to a sticky-fingered Frenchman on a boat called Primadonna. You can read the most recent story right here.

She Tracked me Down
I married Julia in February. By April I was gone. 4 months later she found me.



How to End a Day on a Covered Wagon

It’s been a long week here aboard the covered wagon, hence the short post. In the past 8 days, Polly and I have traveled over 90 miles through… Continue reading