We departed Sitka about 10 AM in order to time a slack current transit of Sergius Narrows, the protected water route from Sitka to Chatham Strait. A local eagle sat on the stabilizer poles of a nearby fishing boat and watched us depart. Along the way…
Killarney 8-19-10
We left our anchorage at 11am after rain, wind and t-storms. We now know why the anchor held so well—lots of mud and long stringy grass which knotted around itself and required 2 boat poles and the washdown pump set on a fire hose setting to dislodge…
Scrap Plan "B" go to Plan "C"
You can mix 100 batches of perfect epoxy but mess up just one batch and you’re name is mud! I don’t know what I did but I might have the pumps mixed up on my new epoxy because it wouldn’t harden. It’s that or the rain and working outside with epoxy don…
A New Boating Discussion Board
Both Susan and I have been really busy with new projects at Waterway Guide, and that is one big reason the boat projects are going slower than we would like and why we have not been doing the cruising on the Chesapeake we had planned. Susan is deep int…
Island fun, now island waiting
Fun on Mackinac Island, and now we’re waiting at Beaver Island until the weather clears.Top line – we had three days of relaxing, sightseeing, restaurant-eating, and general frivolity on the tourist island. Janet and Cheryl flew home on Wednesday. …
Be Careful What You Wish For–You Might Get It
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Christi on Travel Talk Radio Show This Sunday!
On Sunday, August 22 at 9:00 am (Pacific Standard Time), the Travel Talk Radio program will be interviewing Christi about the book! The show will be re-broadcast at 11:00 am. You can listen live or catch the podcast after the fact. Travel Talk Radio has been on the air for nine years and has a […]
American Samoa
American Samoa has been a possession of the United States since 1900, and as such, it is the only U.S. soil south of the equator. The U.S. operated a coaling station and naval base in Pago Pago until World War II, and the islands were a …
THURSDAY AUGUST 19TH
A cool and hazy sunrise. But all systems are go for traveling the last section of this leg. Cape May, New Jersey is our final destination of this leg. We return to Minnesota on Sunday. We finished traveling through the C&D canal passing under numer…
Rolling from Britt to Collins Inlet 8-18-10
We’ve had a great time here at Britt with lots of boaters hunkered down due to the 20-30 knot wind on open Georgian Bay. The main conversation is weather, exchanging stories of other windy adventures and offering guesstimates about when the wind will…
