Henderson’s Wharf MarinaWe were told that some of the best crab cakes in Baltimore were at Faidley’s at the Lexington Market, Stan decided he wanted to do a few projects on the boat, so Pam and I rode over to have one for lunch. They were very good a…
GRAHAM REIHER’S VISIT – LEFKAS
All is well and we are on the western side of mainland Greece anchored off Preveza. This posting brings us up to 29 August, and is big on technical stuff, so might be a very quick read for the fairer sex.I was sitting in a taverna at Lefkas Marina havi…
GRAHAM REIHER’S VISIT – LEFKAS
All is well and we are on the western side of mainland Greece anchored off Preveza. This posting brings us up to 29 August, and is big on technical stuff, so might be a very quick read for the fairer sex.I was sitting in a taverna at Lefkas Marina havi…
Working at a leisurely pace
suits me me thinks!Well on my first day of “retirement” I wandered out to the shed after my morning coffee and started to roll out the long fabrics to laminate the hull.This is the first layer of 1708 biaxial fabric to go on the keel. It gets trimmed a…
Dream for Sale. Cheap!
There are a lot of great boats on the market, and it’s a buyer’s market. The economy may be slowly recovering, and your 401k may be doing OK, but we still have a long way to go to get back to “normal”.The megayacht business is doing just fine, th…
Pic O’ the Day
Radar on his first cruise just a pupNordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs
Using The Dinghy As A Tug – Lessons From The Maine Windjammers
Most of the Maine windjammers don’t have an engine, which is the way things should be in the best of all possible worlds. They maneuver in and out of some very tight harbors–Camden comes to mind–fitting their unwieldy hull shapes and tiny (in scale) rudders into some surprising situations. For the most part they maneuver […]
Corfu, Greece
20th Sept 2012
The overnight crossing was a bit bouncy, and for much of the night we were surrounded by thunderstorms, but it was otherwise uneventful and we breakfasted, as planned, in the very protected bay of Limin Gouvion that is home to the Gouvia…
Corfu, Greece
20th Sept 2012
The overnight crossing was a bit bouncy, and for much of the night we were surrounded by thunderstorms, but it was otherwise uneventful and we breakfasted, as planned, in the very protected bay of Limin Gouvion that is home to the Gouvia…
“Running” Down Lake Michigan
Cruisers often describe the trip from the Straits of Mackinac to Chicago as “running down Lake Michigan”. Perhaps that is because Lake Michigan, the sixth largest fresh water lake in the world, the third largest Great Lake and the only one completely within the US, is long (over 300 miles from north to south), as well as […]
