Top photo: Oscar, the newest member of the Parr Lane household.
Bottom photo: Oscar and my grandnephew, Graham.
Cats and kids: In five years of displaying photos here this is only the second time I have posted a photo of either a kitten or a related child, despite ample opportunity. With your kind indulgence for this post, I promise not to make it a habit.
Top photo: Oscar, the newest member of the Parr Lane household.
Bottom photo: Oscar and my grandnephew, Graham.
Cats and kids: In five years of displaying photos here this is only the second time I have posted a photo of either a kitten or a related child, despite ample opportunity. With your kind indulgence for this post, I promise not to make it a habit.
Making way in the dinghy – Dove – to the village hardware store in Deep Creek.
Altogether Neville and Annie have sailed across the Atlantic five times. They are considering making a home mooring here in Virginia (which would make us neighbors), a base for summers in New England and winters in the Caribbean, still living on their boat year-round.
Please click photo for full view.
Making way in the dinghy – Dove – to the village hardware store in Deep Creek.
Altogether Neville and Annie have sailed across the Atlantic five times. They are considering making a home mooring here in Virginia (which would make us neighbors), a base for summers in New England and winters in the Caribbean, still living on their boat year-round.
Please click photo for full view.
Neville and Annie are planning to sell Peace soon, to exchange for what Neville calls “a geriatric model” – a sailing boat with fewer steps on the companionway between cabin and deck.
Neville and Annie are planning to sell Peace soon, to exchange for what Neville calls “a geriatric model” – a sailing boat with fewer steps on the companionway between cabin and deck.
Annie, gesturing to describe the behavior of gannets diving at sea.
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Annie, gesturing to describe the behavior of gannets diving at sea.
Please click photo for full view.
Annie and Neville – new friends I made today on my regular stop at the dock at the Deep Creek locks in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Their 46-foot catamaran Peace was moored at the turning basin for an overnight stop on their annual winter migration from Providence to the Bahamas. They met in the U.K. in 1991, after Annie completed a solo mono-hull crossing of the Atlantic. They married, and began building Peace in a barn at a pig farm on the downs above Bath. The catamaran comprises three independent sections and the rudder, which are lashed together with rope. The boat had to be temporarily disassembled to be hauled to the sea.
Annie and Neville – new friends I made today on my regular stop at the dock at the Deep Creek locks in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Their 46-foot catamaran Peace was moored at the turning basin for an overnight stop on their annual winter migration from Providence to the Bahamas. They met in the U.K. in 1991, after Annie completed a solo mono-hull crossing of the Atlantic. They married, and began building Peace in a barn at a pig farm on the downs above Bath. The catamaran comprises three independent sections and the rudder, which are lashed together with rope. The boat had to be temporarily disassembled to be hauled to the sea.
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