Noëpe ~ A place amongst the waters

Noëpe ~ A place amongst the waters   July 2025  ~Noëpe, a 1995 Hallberg Rassy 39 sailboat is our place amongst the waters, a medium for exploring the places, people, and creatures along the water's edge and our home for the foreseeable future. We are sad to be leaving the comfort of our home in the White Mountains, and bidding farewell to family and friends, but exhilirated to be moving aboard and broadening our horizons. life is short and if not now, then when. The photograph above holds clues to the origins of this adventure. Jessica and I first met at the Black Dog Tavern on Martha's Vineyard in February of 1988 and sparks flew. Add some red wine and shrimp Alfredo and you have lovers for life. But, things happen, y oung men go wandering and young women get tired of waiting and join the Peace Corps. Love prevails and they are reunited on the island of Tongatapu in the Kingdom of Tonga 15,000 miles to the West. It was from these shores that I began dreaming of a boat. Someth...