Pic Of The Day… again, not mine

Nope not mine… just saw it on Reddit. Said it was taken this morning on the Chesapeake.Nice pic! I’m happy to say I went down in the engine room to clean the new isolated A/C strainer and after almost a week in this St Lucie River muck… It was spot…

Year 2 Day 144

Today is Saturday, August 18th and we're now at Leland, Michigan having arrived here on Wednesday afternoon.  The awful weather arrived on Thursday and we've been stuck here because of extreme rain and winds.  Hopefully we can leave tomorrow….

Aug. 17 – Burlington, VT

Monk FriendsBurlington Mooring FieldWe left our anchorage around 7:15 this morning, we wanted to get across the lake before the winds picked up and the weather turned bad. The forecast called for 1-2 seas…it was more like 3-4. On Lak…

Gore Bay – out of jail card!

Sun’s up and the wind is….where? Hallelujah! We are off to Meldrum Bay, another of our favorite spots. Bama Belle is with us and we expect a much quieter day. (Hope!!!)Sailing School. Looks like a couple of ruffians. My kind of boys!Gore Bay is descr…

Laland Harbor, Leland, MI – 8/17/12

Today we accepted an invitation from Rickshaw to join them for a car ride to Traverse City and Charlevoix where we met up with Moor Stuff and Sabartical, boats we have not seen for awhile.Lunch was in Charlevoix then a trip back to Traverse City and vi…

Westport to Jones Falls, Ontario

We left Westport after having a real breakfast of eggs, etc at a local diner, nice change from cereal.  The weather has cooled off lows in the 50’s high in the 70’s and sunny with light winds though some days the wind builds in the afternoon to …

Leland Harbor, Leland, MI – 8/16/12

Lazy day for the captain since cleaning the hull yesterday gave him a sore back.  Ricki spent the day in town shopping while I just layed around on the boat.Downtown LelandDowntown LelandWine Cork TableFishtownFishtownFishtownFishtownFishtownLelan…

Under Attack in South Haven, MI

(Wed Aug 15 – Dist: 23.5 mi; Avg Speed: 8.4 mph;
        Seas: calm; TTT: 2:50 hrs)

As we were approaching the harbor breakwall this pirate ship opened cannon fire on us. Fortunately the crew was not battl…

OK OK, I turned off verification

Yeah, I hate those “prove you’re not a robot” word verifications too, an effort to avoid spam.  They’re difficult to read.  Blogspot even started using fuzzy photos of numbers that you had to enter.  Many of my friends told me that …

Riding Sails – The Answer To A Variety Of Issues

This evening we have three yachts anchored with riding sails set. Riding sails being an important part of any cruising yacht’s equipment, and it being dark, we thought we’d combine a photographic test with some comments. All of our sailing yachts have been equipped with some form of riding sail, either mizzen, or “backstaysail” (a […]