Clearly, I spoke too soon in my last post! The weather gods got their laugh after all! After the ugly storms and wind of last weekend, this past week was …. well, gorgeous! Calm seas, blue skies, just a perfect weather window for passage-making — an…
The Other Side of Life – Bayview Yacht Club Team Race – yeah!
Now that we are home, Jim and I are settling into our “normal” life. We don’t yet have Crawdad in her new home in heated storage (so we can work on her!), but we are enjoying our routine. Crawdad has a new galley countertop and the canvas on …
WHO DEY! WHO DEY!
Pirate Ship Excursion BoatWe found a German Sports Bar right across the street from the marina. They had the NFL Package and put us in a separate room with our own TV. The food was good and the football even better. Go Bengals!!!!!!! How lucky was t…
Cape Cod Friends
Linda’s and Charmaine’s island home
Hi Everyone,
We crossed the border to Canada Saturday morning. It was quick and simple. But our tracfone which had worked in Boston to call Canada wouldn’t work in Canada to call …
Meandering South
We finally pulled anchor this morning after a week on the Corrotoman River. It was a quiet, secure anchorage that saw us through a small squall and a few days of rainy, blustery weather. The squall blew the rain sideways into our open port-side porthol…
Passage Day 1
AVATAR is headed to New Zealand for R&R and a bit of a facelift. Also it is nearly the official end of cruising season in Fiji. Cyclone season starts up soon and there will be a mass exodus of cruising yachts, many of them also heading to New Zealand to lay over for the season. […]
"TINK'ing Around of another kind
Oh my gosh I made a mistake. No worries I’ll just “tink” it back. (Continued…)
Should We Do A Boat Renaming Ceremony?
Sailors are a superstitious lot. Not me, though. Maybe I should be.Our boat’s original name was Tiner Liner, named after the first owner, Mr. Tiner. The second owner changed it to Tinee Liner. We changed it to Drift Away, withou…
Some of Our Favor “ite” Things – Useful Boating Products
It can be maddening trying to find, buy and then store all those chart books we boaters need for long-distance cruising. We’ve always felt it was important to have paper charts as a back up to our GPS chartplotter as well as for route planning. The downside of paper charts/chart…
New Caledonia – Noumea
We arrived into the pass on the reef to enter into New Caledonia exactly as planned at 6:30 am. The visibility was good, the currents non existent and we made good way on through to the town of Noumea, Port du Sud marina. The clearing in went seamlessl…
