Postcards From the Edge

Postcards From the Edge

Fisherman’s Cove in Norfolk, VA

Fisherman’s Cove in Norfolk, VA

Located at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay this cove does not offer any anchorage but it does have an excellent marina named Little Creek Marina.  This marina shares the The Little Creek Inlet with the US Navy and a commercial fishing fleet.  When you enter the inlet you must keep a sharp...

Arizona State Fair 2017 | Oct 6th - 29th | Phoenix, AZ

Arizona State Fair 2017 | Oct 6th – 29th | Phoenix, AZ

The Arizona State Fair is a blast for kids and families.  The fair is held every year at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix Arizona. It was first held in 1884 and has had interruptions for various reasons like cotton crop failures to the Great Depression and the World Wars.

Monday Night Movie | The Croods

Monday Night Movie | The Croods

"The Croods" are an eccentric family of cavemen, who survive the harsh terrain by living according to a strict set of rules. But when their home is destroyed in the wake of an impending disaster known as "The End", they are forced to leave their home of shelter and security, and into the...

Flag Harbor Yacht Haven - A Private Marina

Flag Harbor Yacht Haven – A Private Marina

Flag Harbor Yacht Haven is a hidden treasure, a safe haven, nestled among the wooded Calvert Cliffs on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Slips are available for sale or rent. The marina amenities include heated/air conditioned bathrooms/showers, a swimming pool, a covered picnic...

480 BCE the Battle of Salamis

480 BCE the Battle of Salamis

Themistocles lead the Greek fleet to victory against the Persian fleet of Xerxes I at the naval battle of Salamis in 480 BCE. Some historians believe that a Persian victory would have slowed the development of Ancient Greece, and by extension all western civilization, arguing that the...

Why do Women Talk so Much?

Why Do Women Talk so Much?

Is it a biological need to communicate the every feeling they have?  Why must they include every irrelevant piece of information in their stories?  Most women will tell you that men do not share their feelings and never talk about anything.

German Rouladen - Wicked Good Eats

German Rouladen – Wicked Good Eats

Rouladen, a German dish,  is one of my favorite foods.  Served with potatoes, noodles or even rice, this dish is a meal to remember. I highly recommend you try this. A little labor-intensive, but you won't be disappointed.

Sailboat Review of the Irwin 30 Competition

Sailboat Review of the Irwin 30 Competition

This is a racing boat, built with an oversized rig and a long keel but it has surprising amount of comfort. The Irwin 30 Competition is designed to race first and double as a daysailer. She is fitted with a tall rig, deep keel, Atomic 4 engine, stack pack for the main, self tailing...

Monday Night Movie - Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)

Monday Night Movie – Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)

My favorite of all the Sci Fi movies. When the first series aired on television in 1978, I was not impressed. It was a nice try but they just did not have the story developed enough and the acting was so bad. However in 2004 the Syfy Channel produced Battlestar Galactica (BSG) the...

Rock Hall Harbor, Maryland

Rock Hall Harbor, Maryland

Rock Hall is billed as "The Pearl of the Chesapeake", and this unique waterfront town is located on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay.   It is definitely a tourist town but it's small with a population of only 1,310 people and never seems to be crowded.

Juan Sebastián Elcano, You Went Around Me First!

Juan Sebastián Elcano, You Went Around Me First!

Who was the first to circumnavigate the world? The answer you receive will depend on who you ask. If you ask most of the world they will either say Joshua Slocum or Ferdinand Magellan, however both answers are wrong. If you ask someone from Spain they will say Juan Sebastián Elcano but...

Burning Times, The Women's Holocaust

Burning Times, The Women’s Holocaust

5 December 1484 Pope Innocent VIII began the holocaust against women with his directive, Summis Desiderantes Affectibus, which recognized the existence of witches and gave full papal approval for the inquisition eam to move against witches and starting 300 years of extreme violence...

Sailing with the Dread Pirate Stephen

Sailing with the Dread Pirate Stephen

This past spring Stephen bought a 28 ft Columbia 8.7 sailboat. He asked me to come and help him move it from the hardstand in Baltimore to his new marina on the Chesapeake Bay. His sailboat needed quite a bit of work before it could be put into the water.

The Life & Epic Journey of Joshua Slocum

The Life & Epic Journey of Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail solo around the world. He was born in Nova Scotian and a naturalised American citizen. He was a sailor, adventurer, and a noted writer. In Fairhaven, Massachusetts, he rebuilt the 36′ 9″ gaff rigged sloop oyster boat named Spray.  In 1900 he wrote a...

Perihelion, Aphelion and the Solstices

Perihelion, Aphelion and the Solstices

Earth moves closest to the sun on January 4, 2017 at around 9:17 am EST. This event is called the Earth’s Perihelion. Meanwhile, the December Solstice took place on December 21 at at 3:44 AM EST. At the Perihelion in January the Earth is 91 million miles from the sun, in contrast it is 94...

Thomas Coville - Around the Word in 49 Days

Thomas Coville – Around the Word in 49 Days

On Christmas day, Dec 25th 2016, French skipper Thomas Coville set a new record in solo non-stop round the world sailing. He broke the previous record of 57 days and 13 hours had been held by fellow Frenchman Francis Joyon after a trip that took just 49 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes and 38...

Sailing Over the Appalachian Mountains on the Erie Canal

Sailing Over the Appalachian Mountains on the Erie Canal

In the summer of 2016 I took a little trip from St Michaels, MD to Port Huron, MI. My route took 5 weeks and 1,162 Nautical Miles and was for the most part fun. When I reached Albany NY I took down the mast and the real work began.  My first lock was at Troy NY at an elevation of 15 feet...

Shackle Slavery in America is Alive and Well

Shackle Slavery in America is Alive and Well

The Bureau of Prisons contracts its constitutional and moral responsibility to build, manage and maintain the American prison system out to modern day slave owners like the CoreCivic Corporation. This corporation trades its stock based on how many prisoners it has. So not only are they...

The Origins of Religion, Where Does That Crazy Shit Come From?

The Origins of Religion

Every myth, Egyptian, Greek, Roman or otherwise, that has ever been told or written, varies in its telling. The basic themes are repeated in many of our myths, but details and even story lines will differ considerably, from village to village and eon to eon.

Song of Ilium, a Story of War and Forbidden Love

Song of Ilium, a Story of War and Forbidden Love

The Iliad is sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilium. It's an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter. The story is set during the Trojan War, a decade long war for the city of Troy or Ilium in ancient Greek. Lead by King Agamemnon, the coalition of Greek states laid siege of the...

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Les Misérables, translated from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims , is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions...

The Rights of Women

The Rights of Women

In America it is often said “In Muslim countries, women are routinely abused by their husbands” however, more than a 250,000 American women reported that they had been raped or sexually assaulted to the police. American women suffer 4.8 million physical assaults and rapes annually in the...

Jupiter: God of the Sky

Jupiter: God of the Sky

In Roman mythology Jupiter was the God of the Sky, Thunder and Lightning, Law, Order and Justice. He was the central deity in the Archaic Triad, the pre-Christian Trinity if you will. The Archaic Triad was made up of 3 gods. Jupiter, the father, and his son Mars and Quirinus the god of...

The Rat Pack

The Rat Pack

We salute the Rat Pack, a group of actors and musicians originally centered on Humphrey Bogart. In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later group of entertainers after Bogart’s death. They called themselves several different names and...

The Secrets of Michelangelo

The Secrets of Michelangelo

When Michelangelo carved his masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, do you think he was saying that David had some big balls to do what he did, or am I just extremely well endowed?