Author: Anne Clement

We are just now in the process of loading up Peace IV for her annual trip to the warm Bahamas for the winter away from snow season here in New England. That entire US East coast is so familiar to us now, it is all pretty much “home waters” even though it is 1700 nm…

Rarely does the weather cooperate with our boating plans, but during the past two weeks it has served our needs perfectly. Just before they hauled us out, it rained so much we were forced to rest a lot. Same for the day of the haul which had been a tense time because it was our…

The sail “Down East” to Maine was typical in that we had a good following wind, lots of sunshine for part of the trip, and got socked in with thick fog the rest of the way. The Maine sailing is complicated by fog, zillions of tiny islands and rocks, and more lobster pots than I…

A nearby boat yard has agreed to haul us and to haul our mast too. The cost will be more than 1000 bucks, but it is still a pretty good price. The date will be sometime near to June 15 or so whenever another boat gets launched so we can get in. It is Brewer’s…

On one of the last nights we were at Rebel Marine, it was cold and windy but we had several additional lines to the dock. It is rare for Peace IV to be tied to any dock, but David had generously offered it for free out of friendship. I was sleeping light because boats tied…

May 15 When you spend as much time cruising as we do, there is an eagerness that creeps in as you get nearer to “home”. I know, we live aboard and we are always home, but the American part of the family is clustered mostly in the Providence, Rhode Island area and we started to…

They warned us that we might get stuck here at Rebel Marina, Willoughby Bay. Well, we are still here in Virginia at the bottom of the Chesapeake waiting to haul out for repairs to the mast case and to paint the bottom and it has been a month already. We have gone past Plan A,…

April 3 Well, we are still at Rebel Marine here in Norfolk and the foremast is all ready to be lifted out whenever the people at the commercial yard near here are ready for us. And the details about what broke to cause our forestay to come loose are understood now. When we launched, back…

My daughter used to have a pin she wore back in her rebellious years saying, “shit happens” and lots of folks got a kick out of it. Well, today it happened to us. When we first came to Norfolk extra early this spring, it was to see our good friends at Rebel Marine in Willoughby…

Mar 15 Cliff Thompson mostly works alone in Winston-Salem North Carolina building his Wharram Designs Tiki 46 (just like our boat) because his wife works full time during the week and he has a high paying weekend job. So when he brought Nev and I from where we had anchored Peace in a little creek…