All of our liveaboard friends at Isle of Hope Marina in Savannah have scattered like leaves in the wind. Some went south, but a few went north, including our friends Dan and Pat on Ironhore (the H is silent). Dan and Pat went to Beauf…
Cross Winds Marina, Whitehall, MI – 8/24/12
Road Trip … our last day with the rental car so along with Mike and Kathy, off to Holland, MI to catch up with Joe and Edie (Seaquel) and visit the AGLCA Harbor Hosts, Dick and Pat Danly, who we first met in the winter of 2010 in Port St. Joe, Flori…
Cross Winds Marina, Whitehall, MI – 8/24/12
Road Trip … our last day with the rental car so along with Mike and Kathy, off to Holland, MI to catch up with Joe and Edie (Seaquel) and visit the AGLCA Harbor Hosts, Dick and Pat Danly, who we first met in the winter of 2010 in Port St. Joe, Florid…
Mugla part1
Merhaba,
Thursday, went off for a day trip to Muğla with friends Bill and Judy from BeBe. I’m ready to go back!! Here’s part 1.
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DoraMac
“Not many tourists come to Muğla, (MOO-lah, alt. 655 meters/2149 feet, pop. 70…
Checking Transom Air Flow – And The Use of Woolies
If you look carefully, you will see short bits of red wool attached at various places around the aft end of Wind Horse. We are using these to give an indication of air flow when apparent wind is on the bow, and to see if the air flow can be modified by angling the solar […]
A Good Night
Tonight, we caught up with our old buddies from Compass, Bart and Natalia, had dinner at Hogfish Snapper, and it was excellent. Later we went to a quiet little bistro for a nightcap. It was a lot of fun to hang out with them in an environment other tha…
Friday, August 24, 2012
Today began as so many before have begun. We were up and ready to leave at 6:00 A.M. We left Starved Rock Marina with a little less money, but glad that the propellers have been swapped and the ride is smooth. After only a couple of m…
Chicago’s Cess Pool
(Friday Aug 24 – Dist: 49.3 mi; Avg Speed: 7.7 mph;
Locks: 2; LWT: 45 mins; TTT: 7:10 hrs)
I have introduced a couple of different statistics for the rivers: the number of locks traversed and the Lock Wait Ti…
Woody’s World
A number of year’s ago visitors to our summer home had the chance to see a piliated woodpecker in our yard. They were all excited because the only woodpecker they had seen was Woody and they thought they were seeing Woody. So ever since piliated woodpeackers have been Woodys. The park here really belongs to […]
Across the Equator and a close call
Furthur crossed the equator for the third time in the remote Spice Islands of Indonesia. Crossing the equator was a lifelong dream, I studied the various old customs sailors have performed for centuries and edited them down to the ones I thought app…
