September 1, 2011

On This Canal They Guarantee 6 Feet of Water – We Are Still Floating and We Need 5 Feet – A Little Unnerving but I Guess We are Reading Those Weeds
I Can’t Imagine Any Parent Letting Their Children Slide into These Weeds
Are We Going to Fit?
Looks Like…

September 1, 2011

On This Canal They Guarantee 6 Feet of Water – We Are Still Floating and We Need 5 Feet – A Little Unnerving but I Guess We are Reading Those Weeds
I Can’t Imagine Any Parent Letting Their Children Slide into These Weeds
Are We Going to Fit?
Looks Like…

August 31, 2011

A Warning to Make a Radio Call
This is Why – Canal is Very Narrow and You Don’t Want to Meet Another Boat
This Part of the Canal has Been Cut Out from Shale – You Can See the Layers in the Rock
Canal Lake is a Man Made Lake and it is Full of Stumps – S…

August 31, 2011

A Warning to Make a Radio Call
This is Why – Canal is Very Narrow and You Don’t Want to Meet Another Boat
This Part of the Canal has Been Cut Out from Shale – You Can See the Layers in the Rock
Canal Lake is a Man Made Lake and it is Full of Stumps – S…

September 1-3 – The Broughtons

The Broughtons are a popular cruising area east of Port McNeill at the junction of Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait. It has many protected channels, bays, coves and small marinas. On account of it being north of Seymour Narrows and its cousi…

Sept. 3 – Chester River, MD

Day 169 – Fresh VeggiesComegys Bight – AnchorageWe took the dinghy to town this morning and went to the farmers market. We both enjoy spending a morning strolling through booths of local produce, fresh baked goods, flowers and artist booths. Today wa…

End of Summer

Maddie in Newport, RI
 September 3, 2011Annapolis, MDSouth AnchorageHappy Labor Day weekend to all.  Mixed feelings, I know.  How can this be “happy” if we are heralding the end of summer?  Indeed, we can feel it: the increase…

The Boat Bone Yard

There’s been a spate of dead boats lately.   Hurricane Irene was responsible for many, of course.  Sixteen boats went over the Troy Dam in upstate New York, I’ve heard.   This once beautiful CSY 33 was brought into Norwalk Cove…

Sunday shakes but no Quakers

Today was a mellow Sunday morning, taking it easy and messing with small boat projects, anchored off a small village in Anatom, Vanuatu.   The generator was running and the new batteries were happily charging.   When one of our…

Passing time in the BIG City

Today was dreadfully HOT 97 degrees the weatherman said it would feel like 105 and it did.  But we took the bikes into town anyway.  We locked them up at Millennium Park and continued on by foot.  The section we did was the Loop which in…