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Sailing Fortuitous

for⋅tu⋅i⋅tous adjective 1. happening by chance rather than design.

Category: Maintenance Log

January 17, 2021January 19, 2021

Careless Whisper

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It’s 2021. Everything is fine now. I went to check on the boat.

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December 13, 2020December 15, 2020

A Stitch in Time

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After an entire season (is it even still a season?) of getting to the shore late, I finally got up at a reasonable time, made good speed toward the shore, and…was still completely rushed. About a week out from the winter solstice, the days are suspiciously short.

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December 5, 2020December 5, 2020

Night Tape

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It is far too early in the off-season for me to be exhibiting signs of land madness, but there’s no telling when you’ll be called upon to execute a Night Tape mission.

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November 29, 2020November 30, 2020

Scattered and Covered

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Like the hashbrowns at Waffle House, I feel scattered and covered. I suppose the boat is really the one that feels covered and I’m just scattered, but whatever.

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November 14, 2020November 16, 2020

On the Hard

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Fortuitous is officially on the hard for the season. She’s been pulled from the water and has been propped on stands in the marina. Jenn and I went down to start the winterization process.

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September 22, 2020October 4, 2020

Equinox Maintenance

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I celebrated the autumnal equinox with some maintenance.

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June 14, 2020June 21, 2020

(Late) Spring Maintenance

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Even with the late start to the sailing season, I got my spring maintenance tasks in while it was still technically spring. Very late spring.

May 25, 2020May 26, 2020

Kind of Blue

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My avid reader(s) may recall that I also have a boat.

Fortuitous definitely still exists. I took a year off of writing boat logs in 2018 and then a year off of sailing in 2019, but like a turd of uncanny buoyancy, surprise: I’m back.

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November 26, 2017

2017: The Season in Review

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Part of me wants to only recognize two seasons: winter and sailing. Leave the rest to the landlubbers and poets.

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April 9, 2017

And Yet So Far

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The sails were prepped. The mooring lines had been cast off. People on land, still toiling at their bottom painting and de-winterizing tasks, were waving bon voyage to us as we motored out of the marina.

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This is the boat log, or 'blog' if you will, of the sailboat Fortuitous, where we reflect on our sails, our screwups, and our thoughts about nautical things.

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