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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 at Lake Manawa. The Lake Manawa Sailing School is a big team effort organized by the sailing school coordinator (Ali)…
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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 hold up the mast) attach to the boat. On any boat, there is a lifespan for chainplates. We would probably…
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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 since the last time we took Zephyr out. The refit has included some very challenging times, where I wasn’t sure…
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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. The refit turned out to be all encompassing and is still underway. Zephyr will sail again 2025 and we are…
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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 south to Bahamas last November. Jesse’s friend Paul also joined us for the passage. They spent some time together around…
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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 Norfolk in March 2024. They were bringing the boat to St. Augustine to spend some time there this spring. We…
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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 we chartered in the San Juan Islands also made it to another page on the calendar. There are some greats photos…
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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 to ours, and I met him there when Zephyr was getting worked on early this spring. It turns out that…
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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 projects, and coordinating work with contractors since we had some major work including new rudder, new standing and running rigging,…
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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 issues along the way. We hired Captain Jeremy Vaught and his mate Captain Brian Poe of Sea Savvy Yacht Delivery and…
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