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Category: Thoughts

Thoughts

Cheat Sheets and other notes

17 July 2011By Normandie

There’s a lot of information floating around the blogsphere on how to write. Some of the advice is excellent, some not. Here’s the fun deal

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Six thousand miles and barely a ding. And now?

25 June 2011By admin

Sea Venture has seen storms before. Most of the big ones have been at sea, with room to roam and room to ride them out.

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Stateside Parking

13 June 2011By admin

  Sea Venture has a parking space. Poor lovely lady must feel slightly out of place among the sport fishing vessels, gleaming and pampered, that

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Almost Home!

16 May 2011By admin

Michael phoned a few minutes ago to say that dolphins from around the Atlantic had decided to cavort around Sea Venture, vying to see which

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Biscayne Bay: More Skinny Water

15 May 2011By admin

Crew member Bernie called Biscayne Bay a mud puddle. Twice on the way in, Sea Venture’s keel found the bottom. “Oh, but there’s plenty of

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At Sea Again: Miami Bound

10 May 2011By admin

Sea Venture left Key West shortly after noon today.  They decided to go outside the reef instead of up the Hawk Channel because crew member

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Bureaucracy Vindicates the US of A

9 May 2011By admin

Can you imagine? The locals, the good old boys, members of the boating population become the bad guys, while the Customs Office personnel become the

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Approaching Cuba

5 May 2011By admin

No,  Sea Venture will not visit Cuba, but as you see in the Google Earth photo below, that island nation stands smack in the way

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En Route to Grand Cayman in Pictures

26 April 2011By admin

Here is First Mate Erwin Bremermann of s/v Thea Renee at the helm. He and his beautiful wife Phyllis are friends of old from Mazatlan

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Sea Venture’s Sparrow

25 April 2011By admin

He landed. Erwin is watching from the captain’s chair. Here he is en route to Michael’s finger, with Michael concentrating so that he doesn’t scare

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