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photographer, currently a boat nigger (I swear, that's what someone called me recently)

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someone with a good coupla stories

My Blog

some days more equal than others

So it's a long struggle to find balance...As the 5 or so of you may know, I've been a-traveling for a while. From just after Christmas to late May I was on my old tall ship, learning how to DEAL. Of...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:22:00 GMT

Oh Canada

I suppose I should have been writing this blog all along...I've been sailing again since Christmas on the s/v Denis Sullivan from Milwaukee. It's been ok. Not great, not horrible. Though there have...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:44:00 GMT

catch up

So the owners of the boat noticed I wasn't so happy. Lots going on in m'gulliver. I apologized and told them I didn't mean to bring them down. They pretty much told me that I was. (I appreciate th...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:35:00 GMT

that round-headed kid

At Green Turtle Cay, in the Abacos. Big town for the Bahamas. Still, no ATM, bank is open 2 days a week, and I'm out of $.Two days ago I thought I had off so I was packing my bag for the day. 2 cam...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:55:00 GMT

think yr life is tuff?

I'm eating at a little place on Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas and for some reason the management chooses to play the SPIN DOCTORS on the PA. Girlfiend left me, owner of the boat has head up his ass...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:39:00 GMT

rat on a boat

While still at West End we had a little pest problem. No, not the owner. No, not the neighbors. No, not the drunk daughter of any other boats in the harbor. Not me, either. Or crabs or lice (that...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:14:00 GMT

West End, Bahamas

The Cruiser Culture seems ridiculous. For those of you who don't know what that is, imagine having a boat of your own. A trawler, some swank motorboat. Or a "fly" sailboat. You've wanted it for a ...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:40:00 GMT

yes, children, we are all doomed

A line from a movie keeps popping into my head. Like a song that won't go away. Like the one Doris Day sang in Alfred Hitchcocks's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (" Que sera, sera. Whatever will be w...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:03:00 GMT

Florida

Finally reached our destination today. Lantana, FL, 10 miles or so south of West Palm Beach. Nothing here, really. It's not as rough a neighborhood as Riviera Beach, maybe 15 - 20 miles north of here ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:25:00 GMT

apokyklips

Maybe the best place to be is away, on a boat.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6171083.stmSwee t Dreams
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:03:00 GMT