Trent Severn Peterborough Lift – truly amazing!

Two nights at the Peterborough Marina were delightful. Muddy Waters, Inconceivable, Seamoore, Jeremiah, Dream Catcher, Bade Boomer, Sea and Sand and Pilgrim were all in the Marina with us. We have been meeting up with many of the Loopers we have known …

Delaware City Marina, DE

(Friday July 15 – Dist: 11.8 mi; Avg Speed: 9.2 mph; TTT: 1:15 hrs)

The Pond
Delaware City is the home port for our good Looper friends Mitch and Carole on Serendipity.  This is their home not too far from the marina.  It is a neat home w…

Spontaneity

It’s Sunday. I’d just gotten up (late: recuperating from grandchildren visit) and Douglas is calling: Andrea and Chuck Wistar are approaching Aries Too on a Rangers 29. They are going into Annapolis for brunch, do we want to come? YES!  (Cont…

Lots of Locks!

7/14/11 Thursday     Today we departed Campbellford and continued our voyage. The highlight was transiting the Healy Falls flight locks. Two locks connected to one another each with a 27′ vertical lift.Healy Falls Flight Lock.We did…

Getting ready to go

We plan on traveling up the Bay for a short weeks trip with stops in Solomons and Annapolis MD.We are attending an open house for OR and hope to meet up with some friends, Ray and Susan Cope.However there  were a bunch of maintenance things to get…

CONTEST

This is going to get away from me I know. I have been planning to do a post for a while about our visitor counter. It started with Ruth but Al restarted it last December with Close Knit. Our friends on Nelleke gave us the idea. If you identify your…

THURSDAY JULY 14th, 2011

Today we are traveling to Killarney. This is the Pointe Au Baril lighthouse at the entrance to Georgian Bay. The weather forecast is for light winds so we left the small craft channel and went out into Georgian Bay to check things out. Conditions seeme…

Fort Lauderdale

We arrived at Los Olas Municiple Marina by 3 pm today. We are hooked into AC and ready for a roast beef supper. It was a long day leaving just before 7 am but for all intents and purposes it was a fine day of travel. It was a bit crazy coming throu…

WEDNESDAY JULY 13TH 2011

Once again it is breezy but we are only a traveling a short 18 miles. We bucked a headwind for the last part of it to reach our anchorage in the Shawanaga old picnic area. Or as Ron from RUNNING ERINS calls it, chimichanga. Ross listens on the marine r…

Betty Hurst Visit, Final Days

We went to the Four Seasons Friday everning to show Betty the Panninsula and then had dinner at the Golf Club. This was the best food we have found on the Four Seasons property. While we were having dinner a Coati (Costa Rican Racoon) came o…