Friday August 1, 2003, Provincetown, MA Lashed by rain we raised the main and headed towards the Cape Cod Canal into the eye of 15 knot winds. Patchy Fog was for once fairly accurate in his forecast. We lumbered through …
Tuesday July 29, 2003, Saco Bay, ME Once we cast off our mooring in Harpswell Harbour, we raised the Merriconeag Yachting Association colors on a pigstick at the masthead and went across for Hugh’s decennial visit. No answer from VHF …
Sunday July 27, 2003 – Boothbay Harbor, ME Boothbay Harbor was fouled with clouds and howling winds as another front moved through. Our original plans called for us to be joined by Beth and Dan, Hugh’s current east coast crew. …
Friday July 25, 2003, Falmouth Foreside, ME Having made such excellent progress during our first two days, we took the time to re-provision and refit the boat. The first step after a late-ish start was to clean the crew. Portland …
Rediscovering the daily log of my first serious sailing adventure with my Uncle Hugh almost 20 years ago, I decided the tales deserve a spot in Aleta’s history. As a proto-blog, these stories provide a little more detail than I …
No Luddites Here Never let it be said that the crew of Aleta are a bunch of Luddites. Perish the thought! Not only do we embrace fancy navigation technologies like AIS, radar, and satellite communications, as an inherently lazy bunch …
Position: 38°35’01″N 28°42’04″W Captain’s Log, Supplemental*: Our Atlantic Crossing was magical. I tucked a reef in the main when we set off from Marigot Bay, St. Martin, and never bothered with it again until we reached Horta, about 2,200 miles …
Position: 37°17’43″N 37°28’44″E The earthquakes in eastern Türkiye and northern Syria were devastating and the horrifying costs in human lives keeps rising. Damage spreads across a broad swathe of Türkiye’s most historical areas, areas we spent weeks exploring this time …
Position: 45°53’04″N 123°57’51″W Dubbed one of America’s best beach towns, and one of the world’s 100 best beaches by National Geographic, Cannon Beach is Oregon’s most recognised seascape. Haystack Rock dominates the view out to the Pacific Ocean, dwarfing the …
