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Chapter 3

Before we could get to Newburyport, Massachusetts, we needed to deal with Cape Ann, home of the City of Gloucester and the Town of Rockport. Cape Ann was first mapped by the explorer John Smith, of Jamestown Colony fame, and colonized in 1623. When Captain Smith showed his map to Charles I, then King of…

Chapter 2

I was gaining confidence in the whole boating arena. There was all the boat shopping but also the Coast Guard boating class. Back in Maine, I took another boating class with America’s Boating Club, “Second in Command”. It was a two part class: what to do if the first in command is incapacitated and then…

Chapter 1 (excerpt)

… It’s good we had a hearty breakfast. We made our way back to the boat, it was still a fair distance to get home and the weather wasn’t getting any better. We left the town dock, once again calling for the draw bridge to open and we were on our way down the Kennebec…

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