The second set of bottom panels went up slick as …… Maybe I’m just getting the hang of it.Alignment on the stern was perfect. Bow needs a little adjustment which will have to wait till this afternoon. This girl is starting to show her true size. :…
Bouncing Along Michigan
8/27/11 Saturday Irish Boat Shop is a working boat yard that doesn’t have many slips that will accommodate Tourist thus they put us on the wall next to the travel lifts. Tight but not too bad. They did offer a 20 percent Looper …
Moce Fiji
Good-by Fiji It is 5 pm on Tuesday and we are approximately 100 nm west of Fiji, in route to the southern most island of Vanuatu, Anatom. We left an anchorage in Fiji at 6 am. Like Mexico, Fiji ha…
Our laughter for the day was provided by two things: (1)
Our laughter for the day was provided by two things: (1) Caution signs all along the Chicago River that warned to NOT swim or allow the water to come in contact with humans and (2) The No Parking signs for barges…always with several barges parked in …
Our plan was that transiting downtown Chicago and the narrow
Our plan was that transiting downtown Chicago and the narrow industrial area on Sunday we would avoid much of the busier weekday barge traffic…and that seemed to work pretty well. We passed only a couple of barges headed the up and then just the o…
Probably the most interesting bridge we dealt with all
Probably the most interesting bridge we dealt with all day…and it gave us the most difficulty…ConRail lift Bridge…10 foot clearance…no way under it. Yet when we hailed them on the radio, we got NO response…all three times. Finally we resort…
Nice scenery…interesting little pagoda…they didn't seem
Nice scenery…interesting little pagoda…they didn’t seem too interested in us….even though we spent almost a half hour
in a holding position there…waiting for the railroad bridge…another story…
Monday, August 29, 2011
Fort Matanza
John and a big cannon
Today John and I toured Fort Matanza. We took a free ferry from Matanza Park to the fort. This fort was built to protect the back side of St. Augustine. They were never fired on and never had to fire on anyone else…
Hudson Cruise
(More pix than usual, but this was a splendid ride!)August 29, 2011Liberty State Park anchorageNew JerseyThe Day After Irene0500 – JP nudges me, “Get up, there is no current right now, let’s weigh anchor!” We have an 11-hour passa…
Day 156 – Chesapeake, VA
Today is Monday, August 29th, and we returned to the boat yesterday afternoon to find no damage! However, the water level was really high and we had to walk through about 6 inches of water in order to get to the walkway to the boat. Then the boat ha…
