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Mid-summer sailing classes and Michigan sailing
While our boat has been in the boatyard in Oxford, MD this summer, I’ve still managed to get in some sailing. In late June, I taught the beginner sailing class… Read more
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Up the Bay to Campbells Boatyard in Oxford, MD
As I mentioned in the last post, we had one more major project to tackle on our refit: replacing the chainplates. The chainplates are where the standing rigging (cables that… Read more
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Zephyr sails again!
After a year and a half of boat projects, we finally took Zephyr out for a shakedown cruise! We were a bit nervous since we have tackled so many projects… Read more
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Summer and fall of 2024 – teaching, racing, and boat work
It’s been a while since the last post. We had a couple of good trips in the spring on friends’ boats, but there were no trips on Zephyr this year.… Read more
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Bahamas to Chesapeake – May 2024
Corrie and I joined our friend Jesse Broome to help him bring his Island Packet 38 (called Contented Turtle) back north from the Bahamas. I helped him bring the boat… Read more
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ICW – March 2024
Corrie and I crewed for our friends Steve and Janine on their Island Packet 420, Hope & Glory (a similar to our boat, but bigger) on a trip south from… Read more
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Zephyr in 2024 IPYOA calendar
We were excited to see that a photo of Zephyr flying the spinnaker made it to the cover of the 2024 IPYOA calendar. Also, I photo that I had taken when… Read more
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Norfolk to Bahamas – November 2023
This trip was with my friends Jesse Broome and Carl Graves. It was on Jesse’s Island Packet 38, named Contented Turtle. Jesse keeps Contented Turtle at the marina/boat yard next… Read more
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2023 Trips in the lower Chesapeake
This year we took the boat out for four trips that were all in the southern part of the Chesapeake. I spent more time at the boat working remotely, doing boat… Read more
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Zephyr IP380 – Connecticut to Virginia in October 2022
We bought the boat in Milford, Connecticut. We had secured a slip in the Chesapeake and wanted to get the boat south, but didn’t know if we would run into any… Read more
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