This post can be found on Ben’s blog at BCCElizabeth.com. I entered the inlet just a few minutes after Ben and experienced it much in the same way. The only exception being that at one point I found myself outside the channel! Seeing an unlit green buoy to my right when staying in “safe water” [...]
Continue reading about Uncharted Buoys & Moonless Inlet Entries
Awhile ago I wrote a post about Story Telling. I found a beautiful non-profit called StoryCorps and wanted to share it with you. Now they have even gone further and are starting a National Day of Listening, which you and I can participate in. Please check out their site. Listen to a story, and share [...]
Nov 19, 2009
1158- I start the engine and weigh anchor. Motoring out of the inlet, I head for the open sea. Beside me sits a chart, parallel-rulers, binoculars, and a bowl of broccoli. Dory is trying to eat the broccoli. He has really become a menace, and is no longer interested in cat food. When [...]
I remember when I started junior high, my father put his hand on my shoulder and said in his best John Wayne voice, “Darlin’ are you going to run cross-country next year?” I nodded. “Good. From now on you’ll eat what I tell you to eat, you’ll sleep when I tell you to sleep, and [...]
Take a look at this article from a northern Michigan newspaper:
‘South with the birds’:Traveling under sail with Kalkaska grad Teresa Carey
I extended my arm in front of me and aligned the side of my palm with the horizon. It was only three fingers width between the horizon and the sun. I had about forty-five minutes before sunset.
Just as the sun was dipping below the horizon, I was turning into the Abescon Inlet. I circled around [...]
Mid-morning the seas began to lie down and the sail was even smoother. I boiled water for steamed veggies. It would be the first hot meal I had made underway on this voyage. Filling the small pot with an inch of water, I set it on the gimbaled stove and released the break that steadied [...]
I have good news and band news.
The bad news: In the first month of travel I already went way over my monthly budget. I don’t know how I’ll manage to continue to travel like this for as long as I wanted to, let alone get to distant shores. Here is the breakdown:
Grocery: 331.47
Postage: 13.26
Boat Repair/Maintenance: [...]
