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3 min read 2021-04-26 03:14:45

The Hobo Sailor Times

“Remember when I sailed through New York harbor?!” I say to my sister-in-law. I’ve just arrived at her and my brother’s house in my home

1 min read 2021-03-13 12:23:59

I feel like a giant piece of shit that hasn’t actually done anything of any merit. I have no idea why famous ocean sailors like Sam Holmes, Sean

2 min read 2021-02-14 09:32:53

When I think of the East Coast the first thing that comes to mind is not a wild landscape. Yes, there are beautiful ocean beaches, historic

4 min read 2021-01-19 07:54:46

Where do you find the heart of sailing? Is it witnessing both a sunset and a sunrise at sea? Is it in a boatyard with no fresh water, skin itchy

2 min read 2020-12-26 23:45:10

The first time I ever went to a sauna was in the mountains above the Napa Valley in California. With pools fed by higher elevation hot springs there

2 min read 2020-12-16 23:54:52

‘Sail it ‘til it sinks.” Said Tom the brewer with the beautiful wooden boat from 1937. I’m more like sail it to the islands and abandon or

3 min read 2020-09-12 06:59:52

COMRADES, On Labor Day weekend 2020 I hauled my boat for three days and three days only to paint the bottom, remove the old prop shaft and

4 min read 2020-05-18 09:13:03

There’s a tropical storm bearing down and it’s about to clip my anchorage. I wasn’t going to write this on the internet anywhere so my parents

3 min read 2020-04-14 09:06:46

I first met my friend Jake in a boatyard on Lake Champlain while I was sitting on the rocks taking apart a trolling motor that I never would end

3 min read 2020-04-08 08:36:12

All the world cruisers are here having parties, and I’m like THERE’S A PANDEMIC, MY BOAT’S NOT FINISHED, FUCK YOUR PARTY. One of the Swedes

2 min read 2020-02-05 23:46:48

A surveyor wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole (I know this because my friend’s a surveyor and said so), but that’s a legit home made

4 min read 2020-01-10 22:00:00

How to Sail a Canal They said we couldn’t do it, but damn it we did it. We sailed through the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. In light winds,

3 min read 2020-01-09 04:11:35

An Open Letter to the Army Corp of Engineers Sexism is alive and well at the northern entrance to the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. Deep Creek Lock

2 min read 2020-01-02 09:54:32

Happy New Year, dear readers! Many boat and writing projects abound, but I’m stuck in a windy anchorage on a hurricane devastated island. A

2 min read 2019-12-14 07:28:33

It’s 2 AM anchored near Posqoun flats where the York River and the Chesapeake Bay meet and I am most definitely seasick. The boat permeates a