Good Vector Charts for Mexico

I finally have found some electronic charts of Mexico that are at least of ‘good’ quality. The MapTech electronic raster charts of Mexico are unusable outside of the major port areas. The C-Map that our Furuno chartplotter use are better than MapTech b…

Deckhouse On!

The crane has come back (after removing some un-licensed building’s roof in the next village, they don’t mess about here) at at 9.30 we are all ready for the big lift.First thing is to get Heroine out of the boat shed, and she seems reluctant, modest …

Lake Michigan (Aug 12 – 26)

Dodging the fast ferries as we left Mackinac Island, we had an impressive last view of the Grand Hotel before we passed under the Mackinac Bridge which joins the two Michigan peninsulas. The bridge is four miles long and the suspension cables are paint…

Back Creek

Back Creek (Annapolis)8/14 – 8/15/200938° 57.39′ N 76° 29.13′ WHours logged: 4.0Just back from Annapolis yesterday. I took Friday off from work to get busy installing our new dinghy davits, with Mark’s help. Michele had to work, so I packed up the …

Exhausted

Replaced exhaust elbowReplaced beltsDick Vosbury had been to the boat during the week to replace the exhaust elbow and the belts, following last week’s assessment. Take a look at the old elbow — wow — I’m glad we didn’t wait any longer on that! The…

Greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun…Japan

We arrived at the northern most Japanese island, Hokkaido at a town called Tomakomai on the morning of August 4th, after a 5 day sail from Petropavlovsk, Russia. Leaving the Russia mainland we could see some 15 miles away the distant outline of the nor…

Greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun…Japan

We arrived at the northern most Japanese island, Hokkaido at a town called Tomakomai on the morning of August 4th, after a 5 day sail from Petropavlovsk, Russia. Leaving the Russia mainland we could see some 15 miles away the distant outline of the nor…

BACK HOME

We arrived safely and had a really great time on this trip to Wisconsin, and Lake Superior. We dropped off the car to Wayne and had the brakes fixed and was ready to go again. Scallop season is still opened so we took Zack and his friend Michael scallo…

BACK HOME

We arrived safely and had a really great time on this trip to Wisconsin, and Lake Superior. We dropped off the car to Wayne and had the brakes fixed and was ready to go again. Scallop season is still opened so we took Zack and his friend Michael scallo…

Solar Panels

Today we finished adding solar panels to Discovery. We bought 2 Kyocera KTM 130 panels and a Blue Sky 2000E Controller. Discovery has a dinghy davit where we store the dinghy except for ocean passages and the top rails of the davit are a natural place …