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Hi, this is my administrator membership name. It's what you see when I make entries as administrator of the website through the website pubishing platform, Wix. My other member name comes up when I make comments etc. on the site. That's the skinny on why there are two of me listed here. It's really just one person.

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Posts (41)

May 16, 2026 ∙ 6 min

St. Martin to BVI, USVI, and Puerto Rico

At the end of February, my final crew person for this year's cruise arrived. Sonja, 70, from Blaine, WA, is of Austrian heritage but was born in South Africa, which made for some interesting background sharing. Somehow, my last three crew have had Germanic ancestry, as well as I do from my mother’s side. So, we started this part of the cruise in Sint Maarten. The main Dutch city in Sint Maarten is Philipsburg, not Fredericksburg, as I said in the previous blog. We hopped on a bus one day to...

Mar 16, 2026 ∙ 7 min

More Medical Control & Sailing from Antigua to Saint Martin

I returned to Antigua in early December, as planned, and started prepping the boat for launching. My shoulder was back to full use after breaking my collarbone, so things were going well. Until they didn’t. When I was working inside my boat—then hauled out on land for summer storage—I needed to get back on the ground for something, and I started to go down the ladder that was leaning against the boat. I noted that it had been moved by some boatyard worker into a somewhat awkward position,...

Dec 3, 2025 ∙ 6 min

A Brief Reflection about Summer, Control, and Medical Issues

This summer has had its usual times of pleasantries and challenges, some bigger than others and some less so, hardly worth mentioning. So, I’ll just focus on a few that brought up more contemplation about the control issues we all face daily, particularly aging and concomitant health conditions. The first is my 65 th high school reunion, which had 16 attending out of around 85 graduates. It was a good time to leisurely hear their tales of the past five years of living. Aside from stories...