Art Museum in Edinburgh
Alnmouth Northumberland England
Katelyn and Callum posing on a trig point in a field in Alnmouth, also a group photo of Me, Bill, John, Hilary, Callum and Katelyn. We had a wonderful roasted lamb dinner at Callum’s Grandma’s house, Dina McIlroy’s lovely home in Alnmouth.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Wow! We heard the news this morning about Osama Bin Lauden. Amazing after all this time. We are still hanging out at Great Harbour Cay Marina. It looks like we will be moving on the day after tomorrow (Wednesday). John and I had dinner Saturday night a…
Departing Mexico
4/30 Saturday (Continued…)
Treasure Island to Brunswick (May 2, 2011 to May 10, 2011)
I think I left us in Charleston on my final post of 2010. We didn’t actually stay there all winter. We continued moving south with our troublesome inverters. They weren’t performing correctly so we couldn’t use our cook-top, but other than that we …
5/1/2011 NORFOLK TO ONANCOCK, VA ON THE CHESAPEAKE
SUNDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 63 NM DOCKED AT: ONANCOCK, VA ICW MILE MARKER: ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF MM 121SUNRISE: 6:11 SUNSET: 7:53HIGH: 69 …
May 1 – Everglades City, FL
Day 56 – Rough Day on the WaterRod and Gun Club MarinaWe had planned to leave Marco Island and go to an anchorage in the Everglades called Little Shark River and then on to Marathon the next day. Plans had to change since the winds in the Marathon area…
Chicago celebrations – Days 210 to 213 – Chicago, IL
Readers may recall that my last visit to Chicago started with a frustrating five hour (equipment) delay at Palm Beach International. This was not the case on Friday (4/29). My United flight from Jacksonville departed on time and arrive…
Wind Horse Monitor Glare Shield
One of the things that has long been overdue onboard Wind Horse is a glare shield for the three navigation monitors. Working with Greg Kelchner in Fort Lauderdale we fashioned a variety of mock ups from thin plywood.
We found that five inches / 125mm of overhang to be ideal. The finished product is bent up […]
Sisterships
April 30, 2011Hours logged: 5.75John’s “Tangent” launched on Saturday. We were looking forward to seeing him after a long winter break, so we hopped up to Annapolis and tied up at his dock for a little bit. Mark had shuttled John over to Kentomorr, a…
