Almost Monday. Hey, it takes a bit to get back into the groove! We did stay in Newburgh until, Wed., and Thurs., and Fri., and Sat., and Sunday… On Monday Sept 27, we dropped the VW Eos off to get a minor repair. D…
Rainbows, shallow water, stumps—-oh my
We are now entering the river section of the Tombigbee waterway as we have finished the canal and the cut sections. These are the trees, I think they are cedar of some sort and they are standing in water.This was a beautiful full rainbow. W…
TropStock Rocked!!!
What an absolutely awesome weekend of sun, friends and unbelievably great music (a few coldies here and there didn’t hurt either)!!! We just had one of those very rare, perfect weekends – the only issue is that it went by way too fast and we’ve got to…
Vava’u, Tonga
The last part of our crossing from Niuatoputapu to Vava'u was some of the smoothest water we have seen since our Mexico/Nuka Hiva trip. As close as you can come to "glass" in this huge undulating body of water, and three to four knots of …
Aft cabin sub-floor
Moving on to the aft cabin floor now… same drill as the passageway floor but a little more complicated with more hatches and a black-water tank below deck. installed the tank and began framing up for the hatch coamings. Need to decide exactly where a…
NY to VA: Wonderful, Weird, Wild and Wicked Weather!
We’ve started several blog postings only to get distracted by one thing or another, but we finally decided we need to post something, anything, so everyone knows we are still around and all is well! We have much to share about the summer’s adventures, including videos, but we’re having some technical difficulties in getting them […]
Rick, Deb and Izzy Aboard M/V Broulee and other Wild Adventures 2010-10-04 13:40:00
DEB DOES HER FIRST MARATHON. Ok so I didn’t run in it, but I was a fabulous spectator/cheerleader. The Twin Cities Marathon is touted to be The Most Beautiful Urban Marathon in America. This year the 29th annual Medtronic Twin City Ma…
The Beautiful Tennessee River
September 24, 2010 – October 3, 2010 We followed the Tennessee River to the Yellow Creek where the Tenn-Tom Riverway begins. We stayed at Grand Harbor Marina who has a courtesy van, enabling Laura and Bill (Monkey Girl) and Heidi and Kelly (…
Weekend Wrap-Up
Our yacht club asked us to do a dinner Friday and give a presentation about the Pacific Cup. The boat owners put together a slide show / video and Matt and I served tacos for dinner. That only took three trips to Costco and one to a Mexican…
Heading South Take Two
Saturday October 2nd / 4th- It’s very easy to tell when the captain and crew were antsy to leave. Both of us were up and dressed by 6:30am and we didn’t bat an eye. Both of us went to task at getting the Summer Wind prepared for departu…
