I first cruised here in around 1958 with my parents and later returned with my own kids in 1986. Many of the boats are now bigger and homes more luxurious, but the charm of harbors is still the same.
There are plenty of old salts in my bloodline, but the coup de gras was when my dad “bought my mother;” a 1928 wooden double ended trawler that you had to put a pipe in the flywheel to start.
My favorite Crown Jewel on all the Chesapeake is St. Michaels. This charming village with a fabulous anchorage overlooking the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is without peer.
I must confess that I was excited as the Chesapeake is one of the great cruising grounds in all the United States of America in my humble opinion.
“The road forks. One path leads to further entanglement, reactivity, and thickening of the fog of confusion, the other toward the refinement of awareness and
It happened again. She stepped off and called him an “Animal.” He tossed her bag on the dock and accused her of being a “Dog.” They were both wrong. The problem was not that he was an animal or that she was a dog, but that they weren’t.
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” —Emily Dickinson Every year when I leave the Bahamas, there is both a sense
I am always amazed when I find a new place in the Bahamas, but this one is especially egregious. I have been cruising the Bahamas and the Abacos specifically since the 1980’s, and have cruised past this place probably 50 or more times.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw
Our culture does not take kindly to nonconformity. It is the scorn of our peers probably more than anything else that hinders our living out of our unique center. The fear of others’ opinions—their ridicule—their cross examinations paralyzes us more effectively than flat-out opposition.
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