July 23-24 – A Tale of Two Cities; Wrangell to Petersburg

We left Wrangell (photo right) in the steady rain at 8 AM in order to arrive at Wrangell Narrows at the appropriate time to transit the narrow 20 mile route to Petersburg. We got there a bit early on account of favorable currents which meant we had to…

Moorea

Moorea still gets our vote for the prettiest of the Society Islands. Since we had traveled here 5 years ago on a holiday, we were not going to stop here with the boat, happily, we changed our minds. When we arrived, we anchored on the top, port side of…

Galley storage

Dirona
has plenty
of storage space—we’ve not yet come close to filling all the lockers despite living
aboard. But it is a boat, and storage space is at a premium. So we’re always…

York, ME

Click here to see our location in York Harbor We finally made it to Maine!  Our first stop was in a pretty, small harbor called York Harbor on the York river.  But let me back up…we left Salem, MA on Wednesday, July 21.  It was a pi…

Orillia Ontario

The city of Orillia and the Chamber of Commerce run and maintain the Port of Orillia Marina – and what a wonderful job they do! Everything is first rate from the staff to the shower/restroom facilities to the picnic areas to the quality of the docks…

Craig to Ketchikan

Fog Formations in Clarence StraitPatrick At El Capitan CaveSome of the 370 steps to cave entranceThe entranceLots of tubes and branches, don’t get lost! Some of the flowstone formationsThis formation is called “drool”Ben and one of the USFS Guides in …

Fox Island, North Channel – Photos Speak for Themselves

Just another great cruising spot on the Great Loop route.

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Lake Charles – Houma

Well things did not quite go as planned. We left Lake Charles Tuesday morning. Down to the ICW then our first lock took about 1 hour. After we passed through the first pontoon bridge we heard the second pontoon bridge call out that the cable just broke…

The Saga of the package continues

Monday, June 28th Shopping in the morning so we will be ready to leave for Kingston, Ontario as soon as it gets here. While working on the boat I looked up and saw the UPS truck past the Museum. When I went to the museum they told me it did not stop. …

Oswego, NY

waiting for a bridge before going into the lockbetween lock 7 & 8 Harborfest 2010 in Oswego – One big party for the weekend