Category: Background
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This Ship’s For Sale
(Originally published in 2012) Anybody want to buy a ship? We lived aboard Fidelis in the inner harbor of Baltimore for five years, from the summer of 1999 until the summer of 2004 when we left for points south. During that time I worked at a local veterinary hospital that was walking distance from the…
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Before We Sailed….
(Originally published in 2012) Sailing – our first time Back prior to about 1990 Annie and I really didn’t have any designs on becoming sailors. We both loved vacationing and visiting the coast. In Michigan we enjoyed Traverse City on Lake Michigan, and when we traveled to Florida, in addition to the expected trips to…
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Nobody Yells
(Originally published in 2012) Back in the spring of 1996, Annie and I were thinking about finally taking that big North Channel cruise that’s so renowned on the Great Lakes. Lake Huron’s North Channel is a remote stretch of Canadian water that extends in an easterly direction from the eastern tip of Michigan’s upper peninsula…
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Learning to Sail
(Originally published in 2012) Back in 1993, after our third trip to the Caribbean, our second camping trip in Tortola where we once again went on a charter trip with Captain Paul aboard the Island Girl, his 44 foot CSY cutter, Annie and I came home with a mission. It was time to get a sailboat.…
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The Story of Fidelis
(Originally published in 2012) The Story of Fidelis Here is another story from back in the early days. It’s March of 1997, another long, cold winter dragging on into oblivion. We kept our sanity by anticipating yet another vacation trip down to the BVI, again to Tortola in particular. We had once more invited our…
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Sailing Fidelis Home
(Originally published in 2012) As unnerving and as unpleasant as it may have ultimately been, I still envy Annie this trip. I admire her sense of adventure that allowed her to head off unaccompanied by anything more than her courage and her perspicacity and her ability to grab things by the ears, shake them up,…
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We’re BACK – AGAIN!!!
Hey out there! Hello and welcome to the all new and probably not so impressive Island Hopping website! I’m really sorry if you have been trying to get into the site and haven’t been able to. I know it’s been down once again for a while now and I doubt I’ll ever be able to…
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Welcome to Our Blog
This is the old original introduction to the site. Read ON! Sailing to the Caribbean – the prequel Welcome to our blog This blog was really a long time coming. I wanted to do it for those of you out there who are just starting to think about it and for those of you who…
