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The Sailing Life: Chester, the Walled Roman City
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Sunday, February 03, 2013. Chester, the Walled Roman City. Looking along the wall towards Newgate. Explanation board for Newgate. Newgate from the north wall. Newgate looking out from the city. Looking along River Dee towards Handbridge. Handbridge from the downstream side. A view of Chester Castle. A better view of Chester Castle. You can't get a real feel of the massiveness it projects, though. Another view of the water tower.
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BeBop Around The World: August 2006
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BeBop Around The World. Even though the trip has been called off, I'm leaving this site up to read for anybody interesting in refitting a boat or sailing in general. Monday, August 28, 2006. Or BeBop is Born). We'll see if I still have a boat (and something to write about for that matter) in another 4 days. Ok where to start.where to start. Nine months ago the day I bought her. This past Friday. Lot's of blood, sweat and tears. The big launch day. You guys are going to have to forgive me now as I don...
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BeBop Around The World: April 2006
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BeBop Around The World. Even though the trip has been called off, I'm leaving this site up to read for anybody interesting in refitting a boat or sailing in general. Monday, April 24, 2006. This is with the platform now mounted on top of the newly bonded in supports. About $15 bucks vs $50 bucks for the cheapest model at West Marine. Cool factor: 9 out of 10. Here is a picture of the alarm with the wires soldered on and the wire ends with lead weight. The last project was fabricating a new wooden dowel f...
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BeBop Around The World: February 2006
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BeBop Around The World. Even though the trip has been called off, I'm leaving this site up to read for anybody interesting in refitting a boat or sailing in general. Sunday, February 26, 2006. BeBop's In The News. I grabbed the camera as quickly as possible and grabbed this photo. Amazing how the word has spread about the BeBop Around The World project eh? Wow, even superhero's are showing up to help me succeed in my goal of sailing around the world. See I told you BeBop was in the news! After the 1st co...
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The Sailing Life: My First Day in England and Moel Famau
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Monday, January 07, 2013. My First Day in England and Moel Famau. Well, my flight to England was uneventful, just as I like it. The flight to Amsterdam was on an Airbus A330 which was so quiet I didn't need my sound cancelling headphones. I was really amazed. Also it was fairly short, as these things go being just about 7 hours. Moel Famau trail map. View from Jubilee Tower looking towards Liverpool. Of 280 meters. It took a...
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The Sailing Life: Haulout!
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Thursday, April 22, 2010. This post will be fairly short - it's about something that's done so frequently that most of the terror is gone for veteran boat owners. Still, as your home comes out of the water on a couple of spindly looking straps. The staff is all very pleasant - the yard guys are friendly and helpful and the office staff take the time to talk if they're not running to catch a boat or some other service. I had arri...
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The Sailing Life: May 2009
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. A Haul Out and Much More. The last month has been a whirlwind - a trip up the Hudson River to White's Marina in New Hamburg, NY, a trip to England, a haul out, return trip down the Hudson, Memorial Day weekend at Mystic, CT and finally just now flying to Savannah, GA to pick up a boat for a delivery to Connecticut. There's no real wonder I didn't post earlier. But here goes. That wasn't the problem; and th...
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The Sailing Life: April 2010
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Friday, April 30, 2010. McClellanville, SC to Surf City, NC. I was not disappointed! It was a great greasy spoon named, appropriately, the McClellanville Diner. The food was good, the service friendly, and the coffee spectacular. Thumbs up on this one. The wind continually lightened so sailing was out. Still, the seas were kind of lumpy from the days of 20 kt winds. Nevertheless, the moonrise was absolutely spectacular! Naturall...
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The Sailing Life: December 2009
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Living aboard, getting ready for a cruise. Generally messing about in boats. Monday, December 21, 2009. Beaufort, South Carolina to Brunswick, Georgia. As I write this I am comfortably ensconced in Brunswick Landing Marina, Brunswick Georgia. It's a beautiful, well run marina and my new 424 buddy, Lee Yonkers is berthed just across the finger from me! But getting here was not so easy, my friends. It's a tale of heavy winds, driving rain, freezing temperatures and long, lonely watches. A half hour after i...