Liveaboard boaters who don’t have the luxury of going south in the winter have a special dedication. These folks have some unique trials each winter and some exceptional joys that make it all worth it. The trials are not more demanding than the difficulties people who live in houses face in winter; they are just […]
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Back in the early 1600s, when Captain John Smith first explored the Chesapeake Bay, he called Old Point Comfort, “A little isle fit for a castle.” As ships enter the Bay, the island that became home to Fort Monroe lies straight ahead, on the north side of the entrance to Norfolk Harbor, and throughout our
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One of the best parts of boating is the freedom to anchor anywhere and enjoy the peace and quiet of a secluded spot or the opportune access to a bustling waterfront area. We’ve dropped our anchor in so many settings around the Chesapeake and along the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) and been lucky to find just what we
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Each day, the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) community of cruisers sit on our decks along the docks and get to know today’s set of neighbors, knowing that tomorrow we will have a different set of neighbors. We’ll meet each of them again, somewhere along the waterway. There’s a whole community of people moving up and down the East
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As we ply the waters of the Chesapeake and listen to the traffic on Channel 16, I hear thought-provoking and clever boat names, but I also hear kind of drab and sterile ones. We all want to pick out something catchy, not common for our boats. I’m here to tell you, your exciting, beautiful new
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I recently got the guts to take the leap and I bought a 7×12 insulated cargo trailer and converted it to an off-grid micro RV. My tiny RV is designed for one person, maybe a couple, because I wanted to keep it very simple and lightweight but there’s no reason I couldn’t apply the same
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