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TIDAL LIFE

A daring adventure

  • Home
  • Blog
    • Books & Writing
    • The Sea
    • Boats
      • Boat Repair & Maintenance
      • Living On A Boat
    • Travel & Adventure
    • Cruising The Coast
    • Shores
    • Cruising Maine – 2013
    • Escape New England
  • About
    • Nancy Bartlett
    • My Sailboat, Domino
      • Freedom 38 Layout and Specifications
      • My First Sailboat, Sunshine
        • Freedom 30/32 Layout and Specifications
        • Sunshine’s Small Galley
    • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

Learning to See Islands

4 Comments / Travel & Adventure

Bimini to Great Harbor Cay With the goal of crossing the Gulf Stream achieved, our perspective changed. We’d braved the open sea, and made it to a Bahamian island. The accomplishment obliterated self doubt about our seamanship skills – momentarily – while we soaked in new experiences of an unfamiliar land. Islands now claimed our …

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Crossing the Gulf Stream

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Facing a Watery Bogeyman If ever there was an expectation built up in my mind, it was the fearsome conditions to be found when crossing the Gulf Stream, and the 45 miles of open water between Florida and the Bahamas. Stories of misadventure in the Gulf Stream abound. We’ve heard tales of boats blown off …

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Marina friends waving as sailboat Domino leaves the dock.

Setting Sail for the Cruising Life

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Buy a Boat and Travel That’s the dream of the cruising life. In reality, there is one more step. No boat, no matter how new, or how well equipped, is ready for sea on the day you buy her. So it’s more like buy a boat, make her yours, and travel. We worked on Domino …

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tropical paradise anniversary

Tropical Paradise Anniversary

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An annual tropical paradise anniversary vacation to escape the cold and damp of life along the 49th parallel. That’s what I envisioned as I spoke those early January vows.

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