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...

Just about a half-hour’s sail from Mystic is Fishers Island, a place with great renown but one that neither of us had ever been to...

Too often residents do not really take part in the cultural and historical aspects of their hometowns, and Norma is guilty of that. She...

Six days anchorage in the Mystic River was a real treat for me to visit family—an overnight at my son Ivan’s house and fresh showers and...

On Sunday, a weather forecaster predicted (as one was heard to say), “There will be a 100% chance of rain on Sunday.” Well, Sunday on...