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Team helicopters on hand for action photos cavorted way low over the water and added to the general din for this vroom-vroom crowd. Nothing, however, compared to the ear-cracking racket from the powerboats as they chewed the surface at close range to…

The missus and I are most happy to be back aboard Puffin after a couple of weeks at home in Vermont. Irene did more damage to infrastructure and houses in southern and central Vermont than perhaps any other natural disaster there ever before. Many to…

I couldn’t stay away. Watching from the boat as the Blue Angels practiced Thursday and Friday compelled N and I to visit the airshow at Patuxent Naval Air Base on Saturday to see it all up close – and it was terrific. A parade of different aircraft f…

I always enjoy bird watching and today was a great day for it. Puffin is back in the water and the birds I watched were the Navy’s Blue Angels as they practiced barrel rolls, loop the loops, inversions and other maneuvers, many at seeming tree-top lev…

Who can take all the excitement? First an earthquake on Tuesday and now Saturday morning – we sit at the Comfort Inn in Solomon’s Island, Maryland awaiting the expected hurricane. The skies are dark and dense, the air thick and warm. The rain will …

Good friends Tom and Alla departed yesterday, after spending several days with us on Puffin alternating between good food, good swimming and good laughs. When the urge for exercise racked us unrelentingly, several of us turned to our respective keyboa…

Chesapeake Bay is all about choices: which river to follow, which creek off that river, which cove off that creek. We chose to stay on the Chester River after our daughter and spouse departed from Chestertown, and chose to try a new creek- Langford Cr…

Puffin had been docked at a marina in Chestertown on Maryland’s Eastern shore while Sara and Wayne visited us for several days. Yesterday they departed for points north and we also prepared to depart for an anchorage down the Chester River. (Cont…

Well, Puffin is back in operation after our prolonged land-based stay in Vermont. We arrived to very hot weather here in the Chesapeake Bay and wondered why we left the somewhat cooler climes of Vermont. But, boat updates (new wifi antenna installati…

The abrupt cessation of posts since my last on May 8th is in large part a reflection of an unexpected juxtaposition of events in the recent weeks since PUFFIN arrived in Solomon’s Island, Maryland.  (Continued…)