My good friend, and seasoned sailor, David Tees joined me on September 6th in Palau. When David agreed to make the next passage, we both thought we were going to make a relatively leisurely cruise to Noumea, New Caledonia, with stops in&…
Hallelujah
Let’s face it, if you have something that is broken and you swap out enough parts, you may sooner or later fix it. To date, we have replaced the high pressure switch, acid washed the membrane, replaced the membrane, repla…
Drama on the Alligator River, North Carolina
As Puffin worked south down the Alligator River yesterday, a bird flying just off the water caught my eye. It didn’t look like a gull. It was bigger and its wings were batting the air as it reversed direction and then reversed direction again almost …
October 24 and 25, 2011; Monday and Tuesday
Monday we spent de-boning the meat, freezing it, and figuring out how to get it home. It took us all morning. In the afternoon Keith started packing the car, I helped Karen clean up the back straps and hanging loins from their elk, and Bill had to wo…
THE GULF OF BODRUM
After going to a café in Bodrum to watch the All Blacks beat France and win the Rugby World Cup, we went to the Bodrum private hospital to have our stitches removed. As we studied a map to find the hospital a Turkish man asked if he could help us, and…
Favorite Weather Ipad Apps, Seamanship, and We Ought To Know Better
From the photo above, taken in the lagoon adjacent to Cape Lookout in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, you can see there is a bit of breeze. In fact, this breeze woke us up at 0400 with the wind shift, meter high waves, and bumping the bottom wih the keel. Coastal cruising, in a country with […]
Stll at Bay Hill Marina, Athens, AL
Date November 3, 2011Day 128Departure No travel today …
Misscellaneous pictures from our Elk Hunt
Centennial Mountain RangeKeith and Karen scouting on 10-21-2011 10-21-2011 Trumpeter Swans on the RefugeThe Refuge put a night camera out because they had a Grizzly Bear eating on a carcassThe Coyote’s liked the carcass alsoGoing up the mount…
Sister Ships
On April 1, 2010 Oso Blanco, Nordhavn 64-09 and Mystery Ship, Nordhavn 64-10 departed Paradise Village in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico after a “good-bye” dinner with our friends at the VYC. We began a journey of a lifetime as we st…
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Scarecrow, Mom, and Dad.We are so happy to have John’s Mom and Dad visiting with us for a couple of days. We walked into town for lunch at Willow Tree (German restaurant) and then walked around town a bit. Lunch was wonderful. We…
