Navy Point Marine
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus
We got an early start this morning, and we made it through the next four locks on the Oswego Canal before nine. We couldn’t have asked for a better day to cross Lake Ontario to Sackets Harbor. We visited Sacker Harbor by car in 2012, but it was a lot better coming in by boat.
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Ok, that’s enough nonsense. Back on planet Earth in the 21st. century some progress has been made with the boat project.The stern bearing carrier doesn’t sit flush to the keel. The angle of the prop shaft is 8 degrees. I tried a few times to build in a…
We’re on our way to the 1000 Islands (pronounced “Thousand Islands,” not “One Thousand Islands”). We spent a few days in the area in 2012, but didn’t feel like we really had enough time to explore all the little places we wanted to see. The Thousand Islands constitute an archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the US/Canadian border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. The islands stretch about 50 miles downstream from Kingston, ON to Brockville, ON. The Canadian islands are in the province of Ontario and the U.S. islands in the state of New York.
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August 7, 2018 – standing off Heimaey, Iceland
The wind is whistling through the door to the veranda. With winds steady at 38-40 knots and seas 2-3 meters, the Captain has wisely decided to cancel the port visit. There is no safe way to launch the tenders, much less transfer guests ashore through the seas into the inner harbor. As the morning wore on, a mist from the water and wind began to obscure the detail and the horizon disappeared.
A few photos will have to suffice, along with a lecture later this morning by a resident who was here when the volcano erupted and buried the town. The town is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, called the Pompeii of the North.
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We’ve tried and discarded several thousand dollars worth of so-called cell phone signal boosters. But when tech guru Ben Ellison …Read More
It is a short fourteen mile run up Port Fredrick Sound to the small village of Hoonah. Robin and Jim from the Defever “Adventures” are on the docks to catch our lines. They have been very gracious with providing us Alaska cruising information over the past several years and are partly responsible for us being […]
Now most people who build their own boats take their ideas for interior design from a number of sources. Magazines, other boats, web sites or boat shows. We decided to deviate from the norm (which is normal for us). Below you’ll see what we’re planning…
