Amber Jones' Adventures (aka, The Reluctant Sailor)

If I'm not sailing, how can I blog? Would you like to hear about our ongoing problems with Comcast (the cable company)?  The discovery o...

I entered Hostelling International's Big Blog competition! Cast your vote for my blog (simply "Browse Bloggers" and search fo...

Echo II is home at last as of August 11, 2014: Holiday Hill Marina on the Rhode River in Edgewater, Maryland, from which she sailed on ...

If anyone were going to get seasick on Chesapeake Bay, it could very well be in these conditions: sails full, heeling the boat on its side, ...

Captain: Emergency management aupervisor Chief helmsman (on the wheel, checking the chart, steering the boat, scanning for obstacles...

Visual poetry. Pope LOVES his new spinnaker! While I shooed and scrubbed inside and out, trying to clear out the plague of mayflies, Pop...

8:45 pm. Dusk. Slowing to anchor in Fleet's Bay, just north of the Rappahannock River. Suddenly, from the evening sky, descended a ...