Starr’s Voyage to Hawai’i – Impressions of a Nordhavn Owner

MV STARR:  A Northern Marine 75’ LLC
Starr’s Voyage to Hawai’i – Impressions of a Nordhavn Owner
written by Viktor Grabner

Starr at Waikiki Yacht Club – Viktor is the big guy on far left

Nordhavn’s are built to cross oceans. My own No…

Boca Grande to the Chesapeake ’11

Friday April 29, 2011 we drove down from Chattanooga to Gasparilla Marina to Moonstruck.  Eleven hours, but not a bad drive.  After dining at the Fishery Restaurant, we stayed the night on the boat.  Saturday morning was extremely busy.  We had the engines and generator gone over for their annual service.  That was an all […]

The Tar Heel State

We left Charleston and traveled on the Waccamaw River, a beautiful river with lots of picturesque anchorages. We chose Thoroughfare Creek, motoring up until we found the sandy beach that lines Sandy Island.  Three other boats were already there so…

Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, 2011

Dismal Swamp Visitor Center, NC to Waterside Marina, Norfolk, VA:  Got going about 07:30 to get ahead of the Kayak and Canoe races starting by 08:00 at the Visitor Center.  We also had to make the 11:00 opening of the Deep Creek Lock.  W…

Good Bye to the Oldest City

May 3 2011

 Finally the dinghy looks like new again.  The repair, actually the replacement of the tube, was delayed by 8 days in US Customs.  Walker Bay has the tubes made in Mexico and even though the order was filled immediately, it t…

Email reminder

Just a reminder to everyone that we now regularly only check our ‘at sea’ email.    Text only with no photos or attachments, please.   Eric

ENVOY LEAVES MARMARIS MARINA

We’ve just had a great three days with our daughter Amy, who flew in from London to be with us for my birthday (I’m counting backwards now!). Amy will join us again in August for a week. While Amy was here we got a rental car, and used the opportun…

The latest news!

Greyfriar Church Cemetery

I know it sounds morbid, but I enjoy looking around old cemeteries. And this one is really really old!

Belfast Ireland

We left Edinburgh this morning and took a train to Glasgow, then on to Stranrear Scotland to get on a ferry to Belfast. We stay in Belfast tonight and head south in the morning to Dublin. Having so much fun!!!