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Hurricane Hideout

We had a very pleasant sail down the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts coasts as hurricane Dorian was coming up the coast to meet us. New Bedford, MA is known for its heavy set of hurricane gates that it closes in bad weather to protect the fleet in the harbour so we grabbed a mooring ball in New Bedford for a couple of weeks. Dorian brought some wind, but not even enough for them to close the gates.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Monday, September 2, 2019

Turning Around

We’ve gone as far North (and East) as we’re going to go this year. We made it the small port of Buck’s harbor. Not much to do in Buck’s harbor but it was very calm and we enjoyed our night on a mooring ball. After a peaceful night, we motored back to Rockland and spent the last week of August in what had become one of our favorite spots in Maine.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Sunday, August 25, 2019

Holbrook Island

Short 2 hour downwind sail today from Belfast to an anchorage just East of Holbrook island. Nothing significant happened, but we did get a chance to practice jibing. Leaving Belfast Harbor Dinghy dock at Holbrook Island Holbrook Island Sunset

Posted by svcurrentlife on Saturday, August 24, 2019

Belfast Harbour

We spent a little under a week on a mooring ball in Belfast harbor. The mooring ball was managed by the town which gave us access to showers in the public restrooms and a place to have packages delivered. We could also use the town dinghy dock, but anyone can do that regardless if they are paying for a town mooring ball or not. The anchorage was one of the calmer ones we’ve been to lately.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Friday, August 23, 2019

Baltimore to Rhode Island

While we were in Baltimore suffering through the early summer heat, we decided we’d head North to find some place cooler. We planned a trip to Rhode Island over the 4th of July, intending to be at sea during the 4th. It would have taken us three nights to get from Baltimore to East Greenwich. At the last minute we decided to relax a bit and take the entire week for the trip instead of rushing to Rhode Island.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Thursday, July 4, 2019

New Standing Rigging

Current Life’s standing rigging was about 14 years old and we weren’t sure how hard it was used the first 13 years of her life. We had Charleston Yachting inspect the rigging in Charleston last year and they didn’t find any problems. We decided that because of its age, we would change it out. We emailed back and forth a few times with Jeff from Mojo Marine while we were in Ft Lauderdale and worked out a time in late February when he could replace the rigging.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Instant Pot Bolognese

Our take on boat-friendly bolognese sauce. Inspired by this recipe: https://culinariaitalia.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/ragu-alla-bolognese-authentic-recipe/ Ingredients 1 large onion 2 carrots, peeled. 3 stalks of celery 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1 Tbsp olive oil 40 grams double concentrate tomato paste 1/2 lbs. ground flank steak 1/2 lb pancetta cut into 1/4 inch cubes. 1 tsp salt 1 tsp black pepper 1 cup whole milk 1 cup dry red wine (or low sodium beef broth) Tagliattele 1/2 cup parmesan cheese.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Friday, February 22, 2019

Fort Lauderdale to St Augustine

We left our mooring ball in Fort Lauderdale at 3:30PM and arrived in time for the 4:00 PM 17th St. bridge opening. After the bridge, we exited the ICW through Port Everglades and were out in the ocean a little after 4:00PM. Our home for a month, the little white mooring ball in the background. We had about 8 hours where the wind and gulf stream worked together to let us sail at 8 knots, but eventually the wind died and the gulf stream got choppy making for an uncomfortable night from about 2AM to 6AM.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Sunday, February 17, 2019

Daytona to Cocoa Village

Motored up the ICW from Daytona Beach to Cocoa. We spent three nights at Halifax harbor marina in Daytona Beach. We thought it was an excellent marina and enjoyed our time there. Although the surrounding area was a little rough so we mainly stayed around the marina. We were planning to leave at 7AM as soon as it got light, but for some reason it was light enough at 6:30 so we left a little early.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Tuesday, December 11, 2018

ICW St Augustine to Daytona Beach

We left St Augustine at 7AM so we could make a 7:30 bridge opening. It was just barely light enough to see. We’re really looking forward to the days getting longer soon. Historic St Augustine. It’s probably touristy, but we want to come back and grab one of these mooring balls one day and explore. We passed under a half dozen bridges during the day. None of them showing 65 foot clearance on the depth markers that we like to see.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Saturday, December 8, 2018