It is Saturday, hot inland, and Long Island Sound beckons those who have the means to enjoy boating. It appears to us as if most of these folks are on our radar screen (shown above on an offset three mile range).
There are all types and sizes of yachts to observe, from the ubiquitous Opti to
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The Chateau Montebello – Originally was a CP Rail Resort – Boasts as the Largest Log Structure in the World – Built in 1930 but was Enlarged over the Years – It is Beautiful and Worth Seeing Inside the ChateauThe Wood Fireplace Chimney at the ChateauIt…
Its been 5 days without Internet so here goes…We left Trenton on Saturday morning as planned Ashley (our daughter) is now aboard. We spent our first night on the Trent-Severn on a lock wall at lock 10, that’s alot of locking and only trav…
We are all packed and ready to go tomorrow. We still have a few things to do to the boat. We should be home Friday morning sometime. A strange thing happened at Happy Hour tonight. There were five or six of us sitting around when a man and a boy came u…
The rain returned with a vengeance today in Ocean Falls, so we had time to download some pictures as we wait for better weather before moving on.The mermaid greeting visiting boaters at Ocean FallsSea Jay passing Boat Bluff lighthouse, Sarah PassageSea…
It was a calm day and the water was flat calm. Lucky for us it was overcast or we would have fried as we traveled today. The trip was uneventful and we stopped for the night at Gore Bay. Our plan was to leave in the morning and head to an anchorage at …
Floyd discovered a leak in the impeller while checking fluids this morning…we waited patiently for the mechanic…He appeared around 1…left to locate parts. We are hoping they are in stock and we’ll be on our way later this afternoon. If not, wind …
We spent a very warm (I won’t say hot in deference to my Wichita friends who are sweltering) afternoon touring the SS Keewatin… a Great Lakes passenger ship built in the same era and by the same builder as the Titanic…now a living maritime museum….
Saugatuck ( pronounced SAW-ga-tuck)…yes, we’ve been saying it wrong. It is another in the string of safe harbor towns located every 20 miles down the east side of Lake Michigan. We didn’t need the guide book to tell us about the “little houses” or th…
Yesterday was a very warm day…and to add to the discomfort we were invaded by biting flying friends…by the HUNDREDS. We have experienced the big green headed ones in the Carolina’s…they didn’t bite…but these appear to be black house flies…onl…
