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Right now, all that's happening is a bit of a blog and my Virtual Yard Sale, where you are encouraged to visit and help me unload some of the things I've been carting around these past few decades.

purge the load he said
the echos of time provide
open is the way

Recent Blog Entries

A sail with Paul Johnson In 1963 Paul Erling Johnson left England for the West Indies in an 18' dingy ...he has since made 39 crossings. Today, Nov. 27 2011 I was lucky enough to sail with Paul Johnson from Hillsborough around to his mooring in Tyrell Bay. Johnson is an amazing and legendary boatbuilder and mariner ...to say that he is a colorful character is an understatement of grand proportions. Paul had been recovering in Carriacou from an accident this past New Year's Eve, when during an appearance on shore this past week, he was struck by an SUV backing hurriedly into a parking place. Dashed against the wall of a local store, his previously damaged shoulder and knee were again assaulted as ...
Posted Nov 27, 2011 1:58 PM by John Button
Genesis Departs At 5:30am Saturday morning, Nov. 5, 2011 I had an opportunity for an early AM boat trip ...Dave was taking Alexis Andrews, builder & captain of Genesis, a 40 foot Carriacou sloop hand built on the beaches of Windward, out to his vessel to depart for home in Antigua.As the sun was rising with an incredible display of color in the sky and on the water Alexis, Elsbet, Yette & I, got in Dave's small boat and went out to Genesis. Dave then went back into Windward to pick up Hope McLawerence, a local seaman to help Alexis raise his sails & anchor and see him off.During my first week on C'cou I had the very good fortune ...
Posted Nov 7, 2011 4:28 AM by John Button
Testing the balance Today I gave Popo a hand working on the bay and around Dave's cottages. The first task was to remove buried conch shells from a section of the beach, because walking bare foot on just barely exposed, ragged & sharp conch shells can be a drag. Beach sand maybe soft and fun to play in, but after years of tides sloshing sand into the shells and nearby roots growing into them this was back breaking pick work and much more strenuous than I imagined.Even though we started around 6:30am when it was still fairly cool, by 7:30am I was beat, sweaty, sore and done for awhile. Whew! I am obviously not accustomed to hard physical labor after ...
Posted Nov 3, 2011 4:19 PM by John Button

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