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Continue reading →: Red Point Beach, 1/2/2025Facing southwest, toward the late-afternoon sun. The Northeast River flows toward the Northern Chesapeake Bay and together they join the open ocean, 150 nautical miles to the south. It’s breezy - perhaps 15 knots, from the west. The wind carries the hoo-ing of tundra swans, here from the Artic, wintering…
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Continue reading →: Making Time, 12/11/2024Dobbs and I had taken this rainy day to drive north to Wagler Steel in Paradise, PA to pick up additional panels for the standing seam roof we’re installing. As we were departing, Dobbs spotted the unmistakable plume of a steam locomotive over on the Strasburg Railroad. He spontaneously detoured…
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Continue reading →: Mobjack BayBryant Bay, Severn River The Chesapeake’s marshy shores are like lace, a structure formed in part by the spaces in-between. Every year some of the fragile strands wear through and larger openings are formed until the marsh erodes away entirely, its name on the chart a reminder of what once…
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Continue reading →: Yorktown Watermen’s Museum - 10/09/2024The weather was on our minds during our stay at Riverwalk Landing. We enjoyed two beautiful days - sunny and mild - yet every afternoon around 2pm the sea breeze filled in (and stayed until the wee hours), blowing upriver and setting the marina to churning. The boats looked like…
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Continue reading →: Yorktown - 10/08/2024The humble sister of Williamsburg and Jamestown, Yorktown contains a substantial amount of history within a few blocks of its relatively quiet waterfront. Our brains would be reeling by the time we cast off lines tomorrow afternoon. The morning started off with a special surprise, to which we were alerted…
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I’m Suzanne
Welcome to Sailing Gracefully, a blog that grew out of the hand-written ship’s log books I’ve kept throughout 25 years of traveling by sailboat. Part personal journal, part guidebook, I share what’s on my mind, what I see and experience, and what I value. Common topics are sailing, the natural world, traveling, personal growth, and food. Here, I invite you to join me on a journey toward an engaged and meaningful life.
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