Sunshine as she looked when we arrived in Hingham.

The Moving Aboard Project – Renovations Below the Water Line

This is how our Freedom 30/32, Sunshine II (soon to be just Sunshine) looked when we arrived in Hingham. This is how she looks now. To get this far required repairing the cracked...

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Styrofoam filled dock washed up on beach

A beach, a dock and the two faces of styrofoam

I’ve just returned from the scene of a conundrum. A few days ago a Whidbey visitor left a comment here on Tidal Life about a section of dock that had floated up and...

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charcoal chimney

How to barbecue with a little less guilt

Summer on the beach can lead to burning. The smoke rises every weekend from beach fires, camp fires, backyard fire-pit gatherings. The first week of July we add fireworks. And all season long...

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She who shall remain nameless gets a bath

She who shall remain nameless gets a bath

When we tried to get ready to sail Nameless – even though that door still is not installed – we found that her rudder wouldn’t turn easily. No surprise. For ten months now...

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Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay – lets try this

Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay – lets try this

June-September ban on certain fertilizers benefits waterways (Sarasota, FL, USA) 31 May 2009, Sarasota Herald-Tribune What season starts tomorrow? Hurricane season, of course. Its arrival will be appropriately accompanied by media coverage, predictions...

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Shampoo Success!

Shampoo Success!

A few posts back I decided to find a way to shampoo without purchasing products in plastic bottles. This weekend, in Portland, I managed to find a bar of J.R. Ligget’s. I have...

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Mother’s Day gifts

Mother’s Day gifts

Wildlife on the waterfront this morning 1 loon 2 otters 2 tiny, unidentified ducks 2 towhees, one north, one south doing a call and response 1 glaucous winged gull infinte little brown jobs...

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