#melonseed — Public Fediverse posts

Two if by Sea ~ Video
https://youtu.be/e-jESlZX9C0?si=6Xli5ZRKQVct5f3Q

direct YouTube link: Melonseeds Off Urbanna

Short clips from the trip. I didn't have the wind cover for the mic, so as not much natural audio this time, but enough to feel right. Doug provided the nice clip of me as we crossed tacks along the bluff belo
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/10/09/two-if-by-sea-video/
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Two if by Sea
Sailing along the bluff below Rosegill Plantation. Frame from a video clip by Doug.

I pull slowly through town to the harbor. It's late morning, but the air is cool as I get out and start rigging. Urbanna is like Scottsville on the Rappahannock instead of the James. Nearly the same size and population, with the
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/09/24/two-if-by-sea/
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Sailing on the Piankatank ~ Video
https://youtu.be/09XimWxZtlo

A dozen or so handmade wooden sailboats gather every spring at an old steamboat landing on the Piankatank River, a tidal river on the Chesapeake Bay. Sailors in the Old Bay Club of the Traditional Small Craft Association meet up with builders from the Deltaville Maritime
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/06/19/sailing-on-the-piankatank-video/
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Urbanna (something-something) Rum Appreciation, Rowing and Small Boat Meetup
View from our campsite. Jim Luton's Sharpie Skiff, now owned and sailed by his friend Kerry Fisher.

Vera England can tell you the entire official name. She told me four times and I sti
https://eyeinhand.com/2023/05/24/urbanna-something-something-rum-appreciation-rowing-and-small-boat-meetup/
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