Sea Spirit Passagemaker 60

Sea Spirit For Sale?

News has it that Sea Spirit, a Sea Spirit Passagemaker 60 is for sale. A blog post appeared several days ago indicating that M/V Sea Spirit is for sale. We sure hope that Dan keeps blogging.

A new look

 With the help of our talented daughter Katie,  we have started to revamp the look and feel of the web site. In part to make it feel more like we want and in part to improve the functionality of the blog. To that end the layout is better a…

State House

     Today was an educational day for us as we did a walking tour of the historic St. Mary’s City.  Founded in 1634, St Mary’s City served as the first capitol of Maryland.  Below are photos of the State House.  …

Haghia Sophia

We explored Haghia Sophia more than 1,400 years old, originally built as a church. In the 15th century The Ottomans converted it into a mosque.  When the church was converted into a mosque all of the beautiful mosaics and murals where covered over…

Haghia Sophia

 On the ground level leading up to the north gallery there are sarcophagus ledges. Really creepy!

A mosaic of Christ

Haghia Sophia Mural of Mary and Jesus

Brzantine Columns in Haghia Sophia

S/V Dove

    This is S/V Dove berthed at the historic St. Mary’s City, MD.  This is a replica of the ship that sailed up the St Mary’s river in 1634 with the S/V Ark to establish the first settlement in Maryland.  She is 65 feet long wi…

July 3 – 4, 2011

Cape Vincent, New York – Clayton, New York – Left the Cape in the early afternoon for our long cruise of 14 miles. This is the holiday weekend and we were waiting for the municipal dock to clear out. We managed to get on the inside so we would not ge…