The Harland and Wolff twin shipbuilding gantry cranes dominate the Belfast skyline and are a notable landmarks on entering Belfast Harbour. Harland and Wolff are a shipbuilding and offshore construction company founded in Belfast in 1861 who built most of the ships for the White Star Line, including the Titanic and its sister ships Olympic…
2017 Travel Stats
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Stan and I both keep logs of information about our travels. Mine are more about the places we’ve been and the places we’ve stayed, his are more technical. For information on where we’ve docked and anchored please refer to my Travel Logs. We didn’t put a lot of miles under our keel this year, so the stat’s haven’t changed too much from last year. These totals are from the time we left home in 2011 till the end of 2017.
Balls Birds Boxing and Babes
Each culture is marked by its favorite events and sports. One cannot think of the USA without an image of raging football fans with painted bare bellies or the World Series. Europe has its football, Australia has rugby and so on. Here in the Philippines four very different events make the culture what it is and divines its people. I was not a tall boy, that has not changed, so I assumed basketball was not my game, never learned the basics, leaving that for my more elevated buddies. But her…
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Isle of Gigha
The Isle of Gigha, just north of the Mull of Kintyre, was our last stop in Scotland. After an early monrning run from Oban, we stopped at Gigha for two nights to wait for a storm system to pass through before continuing south to Ireland. While there we installed the new Rule 3700 bilge pump…
Exciting 2017 Sydney Hobart Race
It’s 8:21pm on the 27th and what is going to be an exciting finish is near. Wild Oats XI is only 1,200 feet back of the leading and favored boat Comanche. They are just entering the Derwent River for the run to the finish line. As night approaches, the wind in the River Derwent is…
The Sound of Music
One of the few things I truly miss not living in the modern world, live professional musical theater. I have always had a passion for musical theater, even in my youth. My folks took me kicking and screaming to see Yule Brenner in the King and I and I have been hooked ever since. If I had to list my favorites, West Side Story and the Sound of Music would be at the top of a long list. So, when I read a real London production of both shows was coming to Manila, I jumped and bought ticket months…
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Update
As you will note we have not posted to the blog for years. Island Hopper is alive and well in her new home, Pasadena Yacht and Country Club where we now live. It is adjacent to Gulfport, Fl near St Pete. We moved here in late 2016 fro…
Update
As you will note we have not posted to the blog for years. Island Hopper is alive and well in her new home, Pasadena Yacht and Country Club where we now live. It is adjacent to Gulfport, Fl near St Pete. We moved here in late 2016 fro…
Happy Holidays
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Happy Holidays
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