June & July 2010 Our Big Trip – Day 5

Day 5 – Friday, June 18 – Layover day at Key Allegro Marina. Key Allegro Marina!Headed out on our boat bikes to City of Fulton. Fulton Marina

June & July 2010 – Our Big Trip – Day 1 -4

Day 1 – Monday, June 14 – Clear Lake to Bridge Harbor Marina in Freeport, TX. Not a real exciting day, we’ve done this trip numerous times. It’s about an 8 hour day at 7 kts. Parley – John & Kristy heading home from Corpus Christi trip! Docke…

June & July 2010 – Our Big Trip

Our big summer trip was supposed to take us from Clear Lake to Mobile Alabama, up the Tenn-Tom and back to Clear Lake for total of six weeks. A lot of work went into the planning for this trip but due to the BP Oil spill it was cancelled this year! Bec…

Breaking Away

Lake Michigan (Green Bay) Fury!

Last night I paid my dues! For all the perfect days we’ve had, ya gotta pay the piper at some point. I’ve never had a night like that. A super-strong wind and huge swells battered Breaking Away against the dock wall in Fish Creek on the Green Bay side …

The Loop Begins!

VermilionAugust 25, 2010We pushed off from Edgewater Yacht Club Tuesday, August 24 at 1 p.m., heading to Vermilion. The lake was choppy, with about four-foot waves, until turning into the Black River. Vermilion is a quaint, beautiful town, with homes a…

Life’s2Short 2010-08-25 07:34:00

Good Times in CambridgeWe left Le Trappe Creek about 10:00 a.m. Thursday, August 19th, and traveled another five miles up the Choptank River to Cambridge Creek where we tied up to a public wall in a nice, protected basin.The “Choptank River Queen” …

Fwd: Onward to the Komodo Islands, West Flores

Position,  08.32S  119.50E Since the last blog we've travelled south west about 350 nautical miles (680 km) to Labuan Bajo, the stepping off point to the Komodo Islands, famous for diving, and of course, the famous Komodo dragons. In the course …

August 24 – Port Malmesbury

We continue our path down Chatham Strait with the intent of rounding around the bottom of Kuiu Island. Port Malmesbury is one of the last anchorages before Cape Decision at the bottom. The weather was a bit foggy at the beginning of the day but fortun…

Weather – More of The Same

Countdown – 311 Days To GoThe wind is still blowing, gusting to 20 mph at the marina and off and on drizzle, so we will wait yet another day before we head out. We took a car ride to Watch Hill, RI which dates back to the 19th century when it was a su…

Weather – More of The Same

Countdown – 311 Days To GoThe wind is still blowing, gusting to 20 mph at the marina and off and on drizzle, so we will wait yet another day before we head out. We took a car ride to Watch Hill, RI which dates back to the 19th century when it was a su…