Categories: First Mate's Log 2021
Here is the link to a recent Acoustic Sailing episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkX0zsT0NgU I woke in the middle of the night to the sounds of two owls singing together. Bryan was not beside me, so since it was the night of the Perseod Meteor shower I figured he must have rowed out to the island to photograph […]
Categories: First Mate's Log 2021
Doug Day’s son Jackson had given us some mushrooms he had grown and we had just about all the ingredients onboard to make Leo’s Sherry Mushroom Nudeln (German for noodles) from our Acoustic Chef book. I rolled out the homemade noodles on a cutting board in the cockpit until the mosquitoes forced us into the […]
Categories: First Mate's Log 2021
We left south Somes in the morning. Bryan spotted a group of three small uninhabited islands that weren’t mentioned in the Maine cruising book, so curiosity prompted us to anchor there and row ashore. The shore was lined by egg-size multicolored stones perfectly polished by years of ocean currents. We made our was across the […]
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Join me on Sat, Sept. 25th for a concert with Bryan’s incredible visual backdrops at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago at 5pm CDT. Tell your Chicago area friends! Click on the link for more details and to register for tickets. I hope to see you there! https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2021/09-25-2021-muriel-anderson/
Categories: First Mate's Log 2021
I’ve gotten a bit behind on my First Mate’s log, so will try to catch up!It was a rainy morning, so we thought we’d wait until to rain let up to row to shore and make our way to the Sweet Chariot Festival festivities. However, every time the rain seemed to start to subside another […]
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The Sweet Chariot Festival has been going on for some 20 odd years, and I could see many people have made longtime friends here. The community and sheer joy of sharing music reminded me of how I grew up with the Jones School of Folk Music and the Old Town School of Folk Music. Say, […]
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I managed to drift back to sleep again after the wakes from several lobster boats set Avocet rocking wildly. We can’t complain too much, the lobster fishermen are suffering a bit as the warming waters are pushing the lobsters into deeper and more northerly waters, and there are ongoing discussions about regulations on traps when […]
Categories: First Mate's Log 2021
This is the day we had to cover a lot of miles in order to arrive in time to join Denny Breau and friends for a tribute concert to his brother, guitar icon Lenny Breau the following day. It was Lenny who taught Chet Atkins the harmonic technique that has been the basis for many […]
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I awoke in the wee hours of the morning to an erie calm and misty pink & gray sky. I drifted off again until I heard the first of the rain coming down. We stayed onboard to await tropical storm Elsa, securely attached to a mooring. We only had a little while of howling winds […]
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We had planned to spend some days seeing the villages around Cuttyhunk, Menemsha, and Woods Hole to visit our friends Paula and David Isenberg, but getting a mooring further north, perhaps Plymouth, seemed to be better protection from tropical storm Elsa, expected to arrive Friday afternoon. We gave ourselves a little R and R time […]
