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Category: Boat

Sea Venture, a Hudson Force 50 ketch

Boat

Back in the Water — Finally

29 June 2012By admin

Well, Sea Venture floats. Good to know. After they eased her into the water yesterday, Michael dashed below to check the bow thruster installation and

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Guests at Sleepy Creek!

23 June 2012By admin

With Sea Venture still land-bound, we’re playing on little boats. Step-sister Misa and her beau, Rick, came from California to visit, and we took the

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I’m becoming suspicious (though not superstitious)

5 June 2012By admin

A few posts back, you read about our bow thruster/ shipment issues. Well, here’s round two of The Shipping Gremlins At Work. Michael sent one

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Boat Sailing Tales

Sunset in San Carlos

14 January 2010By admin

Friends took this picture of us at anchor here in Bahia San Carlos. Can you see why we’re still here? Of course, this afternoon it’s

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Boat Sailing Tales

Cockpit captain’s chair and table

28 November 2009By admin

Some folks on www.force50.org were interested in the captain’s chair we installed after our boisterous trip south, so we’re including one picture here and a

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Boat Sailing Tales

Boarding Ladder

27 August 2009By admin

We had these constructed while in Mazatlan, but now a friend wants to see them, so I’m posing the pics here. It’s a great ladder,

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Boat Sailing Tales

A Mess at Sea

14 April 2009By admin

Thea Renee buddy boated with us across from Mazatlan. Here she is to starboard in the last rays of Friday’s windless day, her owners unaware

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Boat Sailing Tales

Marina Mazatlan

21 December 2008By admin

Here are a few pictures we’ve taken at the marina. Very lovely, clean, open, friendly–quite different from the town, in which my olfactory sensors rebel.

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Boat Sailing Tales

Still Crossing the Sea

20 December 2008By admin

By Friday we were making minimal headway in very light wind and Friday night our boat speed read 00. We kept all sails up in

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Windows

21 September 2006By admin

Finally. Finally. We’ve installed the new pilothouse windows–after much ado, with the glass not fitting, having to order more, it not fitting. And at 3/4″,

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