When it comes to being seen by other traffic nothing beats reflective orange. It shows up better than any other color in fog and rain, and is amazing when lit up at night. Many ships are so adorned, and the practice makes sense for yachts too.
By coincidence we photographed these two MSC container ships at […]
Day 12Depart Erie Canal-Sylvan Beach, NY 7:50 amArrive Winter Harbor, NY 10:45 amDistance 22 MilesCumulative 423 Miles Today we travelled across Oneida Lake. The day started…
John got back right around 1:00 A.M. this morning. He had an easy uneventful drive back from Cincinnati with the exception of “The Invasion of the Killer Black Tree Ants”. He was in Georgia when he noticed that every now and then he would see an ant cr…
We noticed signs in Frankfort this afternoon about a concert this evening in the park beside the marina…so we ventured over. What a blessing!!! Seems it was fund-raiser for a 15-year-old local girl, Zoe, who had just had a brain tumor removed. We got…
We started the afternoon with two other boats in the harbor…by nightfall there were six of us …and two others came and went during the day….calm and peaceful…but weather for Tuesday wasn’t looking so good. We decided that Floyd would make the c…
The highlight of Saturday was the wedding…don’t know where it happened or where they headed after…but they spent lots of time taking photos around the marina office. Interesting, Hey??? Oh, and the cute bird who posed for me….I’m telling you ani…
Notice the change in scenery…no more rocks…been replaced by sand sand and more sand….Short run down the lake to Leland…FISHTOWN…busy though SMALL marina… a few interesting shops..and a historic fish town replica…we mingled then just hung…
It was a busy couple of days. The annual Arts and Craft show started Saturday morning. (We were able to visit before leaving.) Boyne City, the town at the other end of the lake, was hosting a cigarette boat poker run…soooo lots of go-fast boats in th…
Charlevoix was truly a special stop for us. A chance for me to catch up with a (no, I am not using the word OLD) Mary Kay friend that I had reconnected with on Facebook. Linda Bemis and her husband have a cottage in Charlevoix and spend their summers t…
Entering a busy Charlevoix channel was gonna be a challenge…just engines and gears….we were doing just fine til we misjudged the bridge opening by 4 minutes…that’s a long wait in a busy channel…finally they opened…we zipped through only to be…
