We’re now in Mexico, about 70 miles off shore headed south southeast. We plan to round the cape and head back north to Santa Rosalia in the Sea of Cortez, about 1,050 nautical miles (5 days nonstop). By then we’ll be in the Mountain Time Zo…
Tonga to New Zealand
We are into day 4 of our passage. The conditions to begin with were not so great, 2.5 to 3.5 Meter swell, at 8 second intervals, with wind waves and 15 to 20 knots of wind. The four of us went through many packages of crackers in order to keep our sto…
Infamous Demopolis
(Friday, Nov. 5 – Dist: 54 mi; Avg Speed: 9.0 mph; TTT: 7:00 hrs; Locks: 1)
As you can see on the trip down to Demopolis there is a unique shoreline of white cliffs. These are called the White Cliffs at Epes. It was a pleasant change from the …
Back to reality
Saturday morning 31 17 S 175 33 E Well, we had 36 hrs of smooth ocean bliss and time to wax philosophical. Seems like King Neptune once again seduced us into thinking it was going to be easy. A few hours ago we …
more pics-Carolina Beach area
Not really “at the beach”, but down in the cove at the end, if you “google” the areayou will see the long beach. Population 6000, grows to 20000 in the summer.
Palm Trees, pelicans, white sand beaches – now this is the cruise!
So we are saying goodbye to the river systems and hello to the intercostal waterways. The next body of water after that will be the area known as the big bend. That will require some weather windows to cross the Gulf of Mexico.Here is one o…
Good news
November 5, 2010BEQUIA (Grenadines)You can imagine that we were very worried about the status of the Dream Grenadines Catamaran, especially after the reports that it had sank off of St. Lucia. We finally found the cat’s owner and emailed him.&nbs…
A lot of new pics(1 special pics for Tina) xxxooo
Hope you enjoy these
We have been to plenty of reunions this is our first Rendezvous
Every year two times a year somewhere around 200 looper gather in either South Carolina or Joe Wheeler State Park in Alabama to share tales of friendship, hardship, excitement and anticipation. This year Anna and I attended their AGLCA fall rende…
many updates all in one entry
1 Nov 2010,0730 hrs, depart Elizabeth City bound for Belhaven, NC.It was sunny , light winds, and there was about 30 boats, power and sail.Ah the pleasure soon ended when we entered Albemarle sounds, windsE 15-20 and building.and seas(3-4 ft) right on …
