You’re welcome to share some moments at the Sweet Chariot Music Fest, as we’ll be sailing northeast towards Roque, Maine.

Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024, Monday Live
You’re welcome to share some moments at the Sweet Chariot Music Fest, as we’ll be sailing northeast towards Roque, Maine.
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024
We zigzagged our way past rocks and lobster pots to Jonesport. As we pulled into port we were greeted by a white-haired mustached man in a rowboat who implored us to join the local sailboat race in the morning, since their sailing club had only a few aging members. We asked if there was a […]
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024
The waves were much more calm today as we sailed from Little Cranberry, along an increasingly more wild coast, to a snug little harbor south of Jonesport. We were doing 6 knots with the mainsail and spinnaker and Bryan was just pointing out some seals when we heard a clunk, and the boat slowed noticeably. […]
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024
We did both get a few winks of sleep as the waves from the tropical depression Debbie tossed he sailboat to and fro on its mooring nearly the whole night.The morning seemed calmer and fog was starting to lift, so Bryan went upwind into port, deciding to sail halfway to Roque before we drop our […]
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024
Due to rain from the approaching yet unpredictable remnants of hurricane Debbie, the after-festival lobster bake and picnic was moved inside and held in Florian’s barn. The barn was decorated with lights and canvas murals by legendary Maine artist Buckley Smith. Rows of chairs were set up theater style, and although warm greetings and conversation […]
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024
We caught up on some repairs and Bryan worked on the leaks in the deck, only to find it still dripping when the rain started in the evening. After the last concert, we sold a couple “Sailing Dreams” board games in which Swans’s island is depicted with a treasure chest on it—the treasure being this very […]
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After morning brunch with all the other musicians, I joined Cap’n Bryan and a dozen singers on the shanty boat, namely our good little ship Avocet. Singers were perched all along both sides of the hull as Bryan skillfully wove amongst the other boats in the harbor. Rob and Marcia, our goid friends who we […]
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024
To kick off the Sweet Chariot Music Festival, Bryan was requested to be the skipper to take a dozen shanty singers on our boat, Avocet, to serenade the schooners and other boats in the harbor. From the dock I could hear their voices wafting across the water. One of the sailing instructors took me out […]
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024, Monday Live
Live from Swans Island Maine. Geoff Kaufman, who sang on my Sailing Dreams album, sings a rousing Santy Anno with David Littlefied joining in. I play the Old Man and the Sea on my mango wood guitar.
Categories: Blog, Captain and First Mate's Log 2024
We anchored at one of the lobstering harbors at Stonington, the site of an old granite quarry that supplied stones for some of the historic buildings in NY and Boston. We loaded into the dinghy the two folding bicycles lent to us by Pamela and Wallace in Woods Hole. Our annoyance at the awkwardness of […]