Sam, Dan, and Scott on the way out this morning as we travel from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland. Mario’s Log: July 15th, 2025 Now, I don’t want to make any snap judgments – these things take time – but I think I might like my crew. Of course I want to keep that a secret from them for as long as possible, but there’s no harm in letting...
Full-time storyteller and part-time boatbuilder, Sam Devlin. Now anyone that knows me well, is keenly aware that one of my favorite things in life are my stories. There are more than a few of them and close friends have heard them repeatedly Story telling is a skill and you must continually practice to keep your saga sword sharp. Once it gets paused, it’s not...
It’s easy to get excited about things; to focus on what’s next; to think in terms of destination. This focus can be helpful. It’s defining. It can be taken too far. In my previous life of search and rescue, often those in trouble got that way because there excitement about a destination clouded there judgment about other things. We called it...
June 10th, 2025 Sam Devlin is a steely-eyed diesel man. Two days into a month’s long trip into the arctic, 20 miles offshore, is not when you want to see black smoke pouring from the exhaust. At around noon today, that’s exactly what we saw. Scott was scratching his head as all other indications were fine. Good temps, pressures, nothing out of the...
Mario’s Log – 10 July, 2025 – Southern end of Nova Scotia: The ships clock, complete with dead battery. This morning, something happened that has never occurred, even once, in my entire life standing watches; I was late. After twenty-two years of military training and habit – always waking up early enough to relieve the watch ahead of schedule...
(Dan Malarkey at the helm of Sarah-Sarah Sarah-Sarah and her crew left Fore Points Marina, Portland, ME, and headed out to sea on a two-day passage to Nova Scotia. The weather was overcast in the morning, severe clear by mid-afternoon, and we sat down to dinner in a light to moderate fog, having changed our plans only once. Yesterday, Portland was 95 degrees and...
Before I was lucky enough to get a spot on this crew, I didn’t know much about the Northwest Passage and even less about the Canadian Arctic. I suppose I knew the passage was a thing shrouded in mystery for years and that people died trying to get through it, but I’m sure I didn’t know much else. I certainly couldn’t have named which explorer conquered it first. As...
I can grab and go with the best of them. A last minute weekend? I can be ready in five minutes. But in the two months I’ve been preparing for this trip, I’ve asked myself questions I’ve never had to before. How much toothpaste do I use in a month? What over the counter meds should I bring along just in case? And my favorite internal query so far;...
After a lifetime on the East Coast, Jon retired from the Real Estate industry and relocated to the Pacific Northwest to further his love for the water developed on both Long Island Sound and The Chesapeake Bay. Having crewed on Sarah-Sarah for over 3,000 hours since 2018, Jon has been able to experience Alaska for three summers followed by a run down the...
