Cruising in through the islands in Georgian Bay has been a pleasure. Everywhere are rocks. Cottages are built on rocks. Cottages range from modest to large homes. We cruised up the South Channel into Parry Sound and back out the North Channel, which ad…
Georgian Bay, Beausoleil Island, Frying Pan Bay
The Big Cooper, a Monk 36, is moored in Midland Harbour City Dock with us. Fortunately for us, Beacon Bay, Sponsor of the Georgian Bay Rendezvous, offered to pick us up this morning so we could attend the chart review of the Georgian B…
Crysler Park, Ontario to Montréal, Quebec: 07/25/11 – 07/30/11
We are at the Port d’escale des Quais du Vieux-Port de Montréal. In other words, the marina on the quays of the old port of Montréal. Even though Ms. Green didn’t really see my true potential in French class in high school, there is a dusty corner of the brain where some of that learning [Read More…]
Saturday on the Delta
The sailboats got underway around ten am after some small struggles freeing anchors from the delta mud and weeds. We heard the other part of our group, who were in Rio Vista, heading out earlier. Hopefully everyone will meet up safely tonight in Beneci…
Happy Birthday
Silas Rui Taylor Nordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs
New Bern Forecast: Hot & Humid
We determined that anchoring out in the “heat wave” that has settled along the East Coast is not conducive to doing much of anything – we don’t have the energy to go exploring by foot or dinghy, there’s very little breeze to move the hot air …
FRIDAY JULY 29TH, 2011
Ross changed oil on both engines and the generator this morning while I caught up on the blog. With those projects out of the way, we decided to take the rental car and go check out nearby Harbor Springs and Petoskey. Our first stop, since we hadn’t …
July 24 – 26, 2011
Merrickville, Ontario to Smith Falls, Ontario – Another very hot day, Allan and Carole kept us posted on room at the marina as it is a first come, first serve marina ran by the city of Smith Falls. I got started on laundry as we had plenty of power and…
July 28 and 29, 2011, Thursday and Friday
Thursday, Frankfort, MI to Manistee, MI: Today was a pretty uneventful day except for the fog we had on the lake all day. We had checked 3 different weather reports before leaving and none of them predicted fog. &nb…
Elizabeth City, NC – 7/29/11
Moor $tuff & Quest pulled out of Alligator River Marina at 7:40 for the 37 mile trip to Elizabeth City.Another nice marina and since we are the end of the northern migration, not crowded at all and the folks are glad to see boaters.A short run up …
