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2015 PLANS
I haven’t been doing actual posts as much as I would like and I can’t even say with all the activity coming my way that I will do much better in 2015. So… I will at least let you all know what the plan...
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Morning Contemplation
Days start off in darkness for me. Silence except for the slow lapping of small waves against boat hulls and floating docks greet me every day. The purr of the cat and his mewing are an insistent...
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Niccolea the Novice Goes to School!
The first term of my schooling just came to an end on Thursday, March 19, 2015. It has been an interesting journey and has illustrated just how much I didn’t know about boating and how much more I have...
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Our Car Was Stolen! – Trying GoFundMe
http://www.gofundme.com/emunacar It’s a 2000 Buick sedan with chipped paint. Who would have thought it needed theft coverage?? And yet, Monday morning was not a good time to find the vehicle missing...
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On Crossing the Columbia River Bar
For those of you who are new to this blog, I am taking maritime courses at the local community college. This includes days spent on the school ship for practical applications of the classroom items....
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Sad News
My mother and her novio Humberto circa 2007 Apparently a friend of my mother has been trying to reach me for a few months now without success. I finally got the news via email today that my mother...
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Slogging Through The Blogging
The slacking we have been doing with this blogging thing is getting out of hand! I have a TON of ideas but just never seem to sit still long enough to actually put them into writing and post them...
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Winter Is Coming
There was a lot of things we COULD have done on the boat this summer, but when you have a pair of championship level procrastinators the list of what ACTUALLY got done is pretty short. I am reminded of...
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Stuff and Things – April 2016
Wondering where the boating/sailing/budgeting related posts are? Well… Fun fact: April is “National Poetry Month” For those of you who didn’t know, I write poetry sometimes. I even have a blog for it....
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There Is Always Room for Improvement
I’m looking at all our online things and I am gripped with the desire to just scrap it all and start over. I will at some point. Not today, but eventually. There are a lot of parts that I want to...
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Back Story Part 1: Captain Dovid’s Search for the Perfect Boat
Back in 2008, I had left Phoenix (and Niccolea – my bestie and neighbour) to head to baking school in Portland. When that looked sketchy, I just went to work as a baker for a while and eventually I got...
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Here Comes the Rain Again
A break in the storm Windy and Wet Summer has ended and in its place, we have the wind and rain of fall (and soon to be winter *shudder*). I take deep breaths as I walk in the rain and remind myself of...
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Wintertime Blues Brings Harsh Truths
I’m looking at a lot of goal-achieving and dream-building materials and videos and one of the stories of the people was talking about getting stuck in something that wasn’t what they wanted. The part...
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2015 PLANS
I haven’t been doing actual posts as much as I would like and I can’t even say with all the activity coming my way that I will do much better in 2015. So… I will at least let you all know what the plan...
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Morning Contemplation
Days start off in darkness for me. Silence except for the slow lapping of small waves against boat hulls and floating docks greet me every day. The purr of the cat and his mewing are an insistent...
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Emuna Means Faith (A Different Thought)
Something else regarding faith that I think about… the faith that this trip will be successful. Faith that we will connect with dozens (possibly hundreds) of wonderful people all over the world who...
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Dreams of the Journey
The time is drawing nearer and this dream is coming closer to being a reality! As I dreamt of this adventure before me, so many scenarios open themselves in my mind… I see clearly all the disparities...
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Back Story: Captain Dovid’s Search for the Perfect Boat
Back in 2008, I had left Phoenix (and Niccolea – my bestie and neighbour) to head to baking school in Portland. When that looked sketchy, I just went to work as a baker for a while and eventually I got...
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2017 Pre-sail Project List
Spring time is almost here! One of our fellow boaters here in the marina made the comment “A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into.” Oddly enough, this lovely old boat has not been that...
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April Doesn’t Feel Like Spring
We started the month with the best intentions. We wanted to get ALL THE THINGS and do ALL THE WORK but the nearly constant rain limits us on a lot of the projects. BUMMER. Spring Cleaning We did get...
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