Greetings from Sans Souci! Roberta and I really have only one goal for our cruising this summer: To relax. It’s a long story, but we’ve had a lot happening in our personal lives over the past year (sold our place in Mexico, building a house, help one of our mothers move into a senior community, among other things). Our goal is to find a couple of quiet anchorages, tune out the world, and just be mellow for a while. After several days of enjoying ourselves at our home port of Roche Harbor …
[kensblog] Victoria Canada
[kensblog] Victoria Canada
Greetings from Sans Souci! Roberta and I really have only one goal for our cruising this summer: To relax. It’s a long story, but we’ve had a lot happening in our personal lives over the past year (sold our place in Mexico, building a house, help one of our mothers move into a senior community, among other things). Our goal is to find a couple of quiet anchorages, tune out the world, and just be mellow for a while. After several days of enjoying ourselves at our home port of Roche Harbor …
[kensblog] Victoria Canada
Greetings from Sans Souci! Roberta and I really have only one goal for our cruising this summer: To relax. It’s a long story, but we’ve had a lot happening in our personal lives over the past year (sold our place in Mexico, building a house, help one of our mothers move into a senior community, among other things). Our goal is to find a couple of quiet anchorages, tune out the world, and just be mellow for a while. After several days of enjoying ourselves at our home port of Roche Harbor …
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July 10th – Mackinaw City to Charlevoix
We finally got a weather window and a slip. With all the information provided to boaters traveling this area, no one ever said anything about slips being hard to get. In July and August the marinas are booked and trying to get a slip when …
July 10th – Mackinaw City to Charlevoix
We finally got a weather window and a slip. With all the information provided to boaters traveling this area, no one ever said anything about slips being hard to get. In July and August the marinas are booked and trying to get a slip when y…
July 4th – 9th – Mackinaw City
We arrived back at the boat late afternoon of the 4th. I think all of us were ready! Three days cramped in a car was long enough. We were happy to see that the swarms of bugs were gone and very surprised that the marina was filled with a l…
July 4th – 9th – Mackinaw City
We arrived back at the boat late afternoon of the 4th. I think all of us were ready! Three days cramped in a car was long enough. We were happy to see that the swarms of bugs were gone and very surprised that the marina was filled with a lo…
Trollfjord
Spectacular Trollfjord is 1.5 miles long and only 100m wide at the narrowest point. The fjord is a major tourist draw—tourist boats were running here from Svolvær several times a day, with more gearing up as the height of the season approaches. The large Hurtigruten coastal express ships also visit, turning around inside such that…
Svolvær
Svolvær, with a population of over 4,500, is the largest city in the Lofoten archipelago and the biggest center we’d stopped at so far in Norway. It also is a Hurtigruten coastal ferry stop—we had a great view from our berth to the twice-daily Hurtigruten arrivals and departures. While in Svolvær, we climbed to the…
Petersburg & Wrangle Alaska
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It’s salmon season and the purse seiners are out in full force. As we cruise down the east coast of Baranof we see the seiners with their nets out, and their sein skiffs noisily pulling in their nets in the process of closing the net into a continuous purse. The fish tenders are standing by ready to offload the fish as soon as the purse sein skipper gives the order. While in Petersburg, next to where we were moored at the North Harbor Pier, the fish tenders were offloading the salmon at the T…
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