It’s been a little bit since I updated the blog and I know you are terribly curious what we are up to so…..Last weekend we had a fun time on the boat. However, I noticed when I went to unplug our shore power chord from the boat that it was pretty da…
Secured and Waiting For Irene
1300 Saturday – Oyster Bay – we have completed hurricane preparations.
June Jones has reflaked the secondary anchor rode, so it is ready to deploy. Notice the figure eight lay to minimize the risk of fouling.
The “turtle” (blue bag) is secured aft of the house and adjacent to the big electric winch. One end of the […]
IRENE 1
August 27, 2011IRENE – Time of impact minus 14 hoursHudson River41°21 N All seemed so normal last night in Manhattan and New York harbor. A splendid night, in fact, balmy and calm… the proverbial calm before the storm. On land and on t…
Aug. 26 – Baltimore, MD
Day 161 – Hurricane WatchAnchorage MarinaMost of our day was spent watching the weather reports and doing the last minute things to get the boat ready. The dock was a busy place today as people added lines to their boats. There still seems to be a lot …
Update
8/27/11 Saturday Since our last entry a lot has happened. Of course we were busy catching up with friends & family and taking care of household chores, but more to the point Pam met the surgeon on Tuesday. A nice man wi…
August 22, 2011
This is the Trent – It is a Working Boat for the Canal System
Leaving Hastings the Locals were out Fishing – Don’t they Look Cold
Turtle Sunning – We have been on the Trent Severn before and I Seen Very Few Turtles – It Seems to be a Bumper Year
One of…
This couldn’t look worse.
Hurricane Irene is forecast to make landfall at or near Stamford Connecticut right at high tide, which is about a foot and a half higher than normal because of the new moon. The hurricane computer models show it pretty much clobbering us here in …
Keel Laying Day
Throwing a party with some friends. Pics to follow. Standby…..
Preparing For Hurricane Irene
We are anchored in Oyster Bay’s West Harbor, on Long Island (west coast), getting ready for Irene’s arrival Sunday.
We’ve chatted with our old cruising buddy Ralph Naranjo, who used to hang out here, to get the skinny. Ralph said West Bay and he was right. As you can see above, it is protected on all […]
August 25-26 – Thorne Bay to Prince Rupert (aka “Escape from Alaska”)
The weather on Thursday, August 25 was a 180 degree change from the recent weather. We left before dawn to calm winds and flat seas in Clarence Strait. We decided to take as much advantage of it as possible by going as far as we could. We blew by Ket…
