Archive for November, 2011

Escape from Middle River

  We overstayed our departure date of Black Friday by another two nights, opting to stay for the Middle River lighted boat parade hosted by Stansbury Yacht Basin. Although we didn’t decorate Maerin, we participated in the preparation, assisted Ray in hoisting his huge star into his rigging, and crewed aboard boat neighbor Frank’s boat […]

Five….

Last minute details are being handled, lists are being completed, tasks crossed off. We’re on target to slip dock lines on Black Friday. Propane tanks are topped off, all those maintenance chores are complete, logs are up to date, electronic chart updates are current. Your truly, the skipper is quickly adapting to life with no […]

Countdown!!

OK, so this has not been much of a cruising blog since May. Not what we planned, in fact nothing this summer had much to do with planning, and after the first three weeks of May slid by, we just gave up on planning and determined that we’d simply go with the flow. The situation […]

Maerin appears in Passagemaker Magazine!

In December of 2009 we were contacted by Bill Jacobs asking for information about our blog and how we created and maintain it. Over the course of the ensuing months, we communicated periodically with Bill, then with the Passagemaker staff earlier this summer to finalize details and submit some photos for the article that would […]