Date September 23, 2011 Day 87Departure Kaskaskia Lock, IL 8:40 amArrival Little Diversion Channel, IL 3:45 pm Miles 68.7 Cumulat…
[KensBlog] Our first cruising in Turkey!
Greetings all!
Roberta and I are currently in Gocek Turkey, on the boat!
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After cruising many thousands of miles the past few years, we decided to relax this summer, and spend less time on t…
Sans Souci Cruises Turkey!
After cruising many thousands of miles the past few years, we decided to relax this summer, and spend less time on the boat. That said, we really had no option. We have two new puppies, and they needed to do some growing, and get through their various shots, before we could take them on the boat.
Watersports
Our entertainment up til now has been strictly water based. Kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving and fishing have been the daily fare, star watching or a DVD on the big screen TV for evening entertainment – if we can stay awake past 8 p.m.! The scuba diving in the Lau group was exceptional. Being so […]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
The Craft Show Booths down the middle of the street in Deland.One of the well kept older buildings (1910) in DeLand.Inside of the bar where we met John and Norm for lunch.There was a nice, big craft show in DeLand this weekend that all four of us atten…
Locked out of Champlain Canal and Into Lake Champlain
PCB Contaminated Hudson River bottom from General Electric plant is offloaded from a barge and sent through a reprocessing plant and returned to another barge to go back to the river. Muriel June encounters another really ugly, low, and rusty railroad bridge we had to duck under. Heavy fog this morning delayed our departure. But […]
St. Charles to Lake Barkley
9/16/11 Friday thru 9/19/11 Monday The past four days have been filled with work and company. On Friday the Cummins mechanic showed up to do a valve adjustment on Tourist and the crew from PCH started waxing and buffing the exte…
Sunday Night Supper
Since its been consistently over 90F here I thought I’d crank the oven early and get supper finished before the temperature soars. I lined up the goods so I’d only need the oven on once, brownies, quiche and biscuits. We have invited Janet & Harold…
Mexican Nautical Charts – this is getting fun
We’ve always been interested in nautical charts and in particular, electronic charts. When we first came to Mexico we had Maptech charts on the PC running Coastal Explorer (CE) and C-Map charts on Furuno. Both are based on surveys done around 1890. T…
Mexican Nautical Charts – this is getting fun
We’ve always been interested in nautical charts and in particular, electronic charts. When we first came to Mexico we had Maptech charts on the PC running Coastal Explorer (CE) and C-Map charts on Furuno. Both are based on surveys done around 1890. T…
