In North Carolina, I became a killer on this ICW voyage—an exterminator of mostly flies. Each day I both swat at those pesty demons and...

There's a lot to do in Wilmington, and we tried to do it all. Allen wanted baby back ribs, so it was Hell's Kitchen Friday night followed...

B.O.A.T. Many of us boaters know the acronym for "break out another thousand." For a while now, Allen has been a little concerned that...

The landscape on the ICW along North Carolina is a sandy miracle of Nature. And oh, so fragile, so fragile, but which protects the...

Allen, as you may know, is a weather bug like most sailors who depend on knowing what the weather looks like today and if the wind and...

CREW: At Belhaven, we added a new crew member. Norma was astonished to find what she had been asking for—a stuffed pelican, one of the...

With our new autopilot in hand, on Sunday, November 5th, we left Coinjock Marina and headed to the Alligator River on Rattlesnake...

Reedville and Deltaville are two seaports along the Virginia Shore on the western side of the Chesapeake Bay. Reedville is very much a...

Finally after 6 weeks (or as Allen says, 40 days and 40 nights) at our Seattle home after our sailing trek up to Maine and back,...

Since we last posted. We have been to many great ports, including Booth Bay, where we were joined by our newest crew member, Shelly a...

SKITTLES- Skittles are a metaphor for all the colorful lobster pots that completely dominate Maine waters. Sailing is hard enough with...

Why we come to Maine: where we are cooled by the mist and not sweltering in the late 80's and humidity. This is where. Where the stony...

We go t little out of order with out blog posts, so excuse us as we take you a little back in space and time... Ivan, puppy Arlo, Allen...

A sailboat motors alone in the vast ocean as the sun sets. Our 32-hour trek to Rockland was sort of magical to us, speeding along at 6.5...

FEEDING "PET" STRIPED BASS HOTDOGS AT AVERY POINT Tomorrow we will find our way on Long Island Sound again to head to Essex, Connecticut,...

The sailing continues to be good. After the birthday party, we left Mystic with a quick overnight in Fishers Islands West Harbor and...

We met Melville at the Whaling Museum in Sag Harbor. After considering our offer overnight, he accepted our invitation to join our crew....

As can be expected, fog and rain and overcast skies can diminish our desire to go sailing. What do we do instead? Well, in Mystic we...

Hopewell Valley’s High School Graduating Senior Vanessa Walrath: One of the most fun graduations we have been to in a long time!...

Granddaughters Lina and Emmy Walrath Visit Afterglow. Along with some of the best sailing we have done this whole trip, all is not...