Simple fun
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Melges 15, Family Sailing on Barnegat Bay
I’ve been somewhat ocean focused the past few years, racing and cruising. In the meantime, my brother Evan picked up a Melges 15. It’s a great new class building up on Barnegat Bay, where we grew up racing M-Scows and E-Scows. We grew up spending many days a week on the water and over the… Continue reading
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A Simple, Beautiful Day
Some days you just have step back and enjoy the view. The Atlantic can often appear grey, but yesterday morning this location a few hundred miles south of Bermuda featured a perfect set of blues. Above… Beside… and below (‘window’ to check for kelp): And, visitors (actually today, the day after the other pictures): The… Continue reading
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Bermuda Long Tails And Other Wildlife
A pair of Bermuda Long Tails (white-tailed tropicbird) graced us with a few hours of company this morning. They tried out windward and leeward, but mainly looped around in fast approaches and then long steps back to consider us. We’re hundreds of miles from the island, not due in until this weekend, but their range… Continue reading
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Staring Up During Nighttime Cruising
An empty ocean is beautiful at night. In warm water you often get lucky with phosphoresence or sea life visitors, but the ‘basic package’ is stars, perhaps clouds, the waves, and sometimes a moon. Knowing that it would be inadequate, I tried to take a few pictures. Depending on camera settings, it can be too… Continue reading