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Hoop Doet Leven is sold … and off for new adventures with her new owners

August 7, 2019

One does not truly “own” a 95-year-old boat. At best you simply take your turn with the boat, following in …

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Oh la la . . . its that time of year again

April 6, 2018

Yawn. Stretch. Breathe deeply. We’re easing out of winter hibernation and updating our six years’ lists of Things To Do …

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Leap . . . and the net will appear

July 11, 2017

We’re approaching the midpoint of this, our sixth summer on Hoop Doet Leven in France (and the Netherlands. And Belgium. …

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On the road again

May 15, 2017

We’re at one week and counting down to our return to France. (Our actual return to France will be brief …

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The art of French barging

August 5, 2016

The aft cabin on HOOP DOET LEVEN is where the Dutch family – mother, father and two daughters – who …

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On a Barge in France – The Book

Our book about barging in France, based on this blog but with lots of additional material, is available from Amazon.

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Never Again

The political climate in the United States is ready for a novel about how the Holocaust could happen in America. I just happened to have written such a book.

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Ben’s novel –

Our son Ben also wrote a novel. One reviewer wrote, “Who knew that a novel about the return of a native for his mother’s funeral, a job as a special ed teacher, and unfinished business over a long ago drowning would be so damned funny? And bring wonder and discovery along with it.”

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Marshview Boatworks

During the winter I build small rowing, sailing and paddling boats at a boat shed next to our house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Click here for the boatbuilding web site.

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