UBNT Directional WiFi Antenna

In our never ending quest for Internet connectivity we continue to add tools. This is a UBNT high gain directional antenna. It is mounted on our old FollowMeTV single axis tracker. Keith Smith from Towndock.net in Oriental, NC first introduced us to this unit.

As long as it is pointed in roughly the right direction it […]

July 30 and 31, 2011; Saturday and Sunday

Saturday, Port Washington, WI, to Kenosha, WI, Southport Marina:  We had about an 8 hour day and we got going by 07:30.  This was another beautiful day with Lake Michigan almost as smooth as glass.  We really could not have asked fo…

On rout to Belgrade

 I thought this was an interesting picture. There must be a lot of vegetables growing in this area as we saw people with a tumbler full of carrots backing into the Danube and tumbling them to wash the dirt off the carrots.  Just some pretty a…

The "Blue Danube"

 There is a song about the “beautiful Blue Danube” Well we experienced the Danube to be more “Brown” than “Blue” I am sure with all the rain we had in the last week it added to the water being more brown with all the run off.However I think this p…

July 8, 2011 Friday before leaving for Canada

4th of July is over and we are preparing for our big adventure across Lake Michigan and into the North Channel of Canada. We wanted to cross either Saturday, Sunday or Monday (depending on weather). We decided to fuel up and pump out today so that we could avoid weekend traffic at the dock. After […]

FYI…I just added a new gadget to the blog…when you submit

FYI…I just added a new gadget to the blog…when you submit your e-mail address, you are then suppose to get a short message letting you know when new posts are made…we’ll see how that works for you??? Could be a pain on those days when I post seve…

The surprise was on me

My husband surprised me with a wonderful birthday party at The Yacht Club this past weekend. It was so nice to see everyone! I was very overwhelmed! Thank you!!! Amy thank you so much for everything… You are one of a kind. If we hadn’t been gone for …

50th Birthday Party

Sunday afternoon Winthrop Harbor was a super busy place…lots

Sunday afternoon Winthrop Harbor was a super busy place…lots of boats…remember there are about 1500 slips here…though they aren’t all full there are still more boats in one place than we’ve ever seen…but by about 8 pm, we were the only folks ar…

Sunday morning while the coffee was still hot, Bobbi brought

Sunday morning while the coffee was still hot, Bobbi brought treats…a Wisconsin delicacy known as Kringle…almond and macaroon!!!! OH, MY!!!! We spent time with them on MIST and they came down to get a closer look at our dinghy arrangement. Compared…