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MASCF 2013 ~ Saturday Race

Emily at the helm

 

Photos from Day 3 of the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
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At noon there’s a skipper’s meeting for race instructions. The course is set at the last minute based on conditions. Very little wind this day, so the course is shortened dramatically over previous years. Basically a close reach, followed by a broad reach to the finish. There’s much ribbing and mock gravity during the proceedings, as usual.

Emily and I will go together in one boat, while Amanda stays on shore to watch the dogs.

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MASCF 2013 ~ Saturday Morning

 Sea & Sky

 

Photos from Day 2 of the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
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The geese get started before sunrise. Then laughing gulls. Another calm morning, no wind expected until afternoon, so there was more time to walk the docks and look at boats. A good day for the paddlers.

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MASCF 2013 ~ Friday

Fogg’s Landing  

 

Photos from Day 1 of the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
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We rolled in about an hour before dark on Thursday. Too late for the annual gunkholing trip, but early enough to clear the pine cones before pitching the tents. Tents everywhere already. Clearly, more people arriving early than previous years.

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Random St. Michaels

Great weekend so far. More wind coming Sunday.

These are just quick phone snaps. Lots more photos coming. Hundreds.

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postcards from the road

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Boats and Bikes ~ Just Pix

Evening on the Lake

 

Just a few nice photos. Leftovers.

Nothing here folks, move along.

 

 

Eponymous Chairs

 

 

 

 

Room with a View

 

 

 

Cloudy Water

 

 

 

The Stable

 

 

 

Shore Life

 

 

 

Two Blue

 

 

 

Where there were Loons

 

 

 

Ferry

 

 

 

Terri Ferry

 

 

 

 

 

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Boats and Bikes ~ Canoeing Lake to Lake

 Paddling to Lake Oseeta 

 

A narrow channel connects Kiwassa Lake with Oseeta Lake. The entrance on Kiwassa was not far from the lodge. One evening we borrowed a canoe and paddled down it from one lake to the next. A beautiful, easy passage, like gliding through a water garden.

 

 

Some cabins tucked into the woods, a few well-kept boats docked along the shore, a few passing through on the way somewhere. Wildlife.

Hard to beat it.

 

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Boats and Bikes ~ Boats and Boatbuilding at the Adirondack Museum

 Guideboat under construction

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One day it rained. Almost all the day it rained. We could have stayed inside by a window and read, but instead went to the Adirondack Museum on Blue Mountain Lake; because a) it’s a really great museum with lots of very cool stuff to see, and b) I remembered they have a terrific collection of boats on exhibit. Continue reading “Boats and Bikes ~ Boats and Boatbuilding at the Adirondack Museum”