After breakfast this morning I tackled the job of replacing a bolt in the salon A/C raw water strainer. When cleaning out the mud a couple days ago, one of the bolts that hold the cap on the strainer decided to break. This 15 minute job took nearly 2 h…
Lovu Feast at Viani Bay
The school at Viani BayMany of the Fijian islands support small primary schools for the local village kids. The Fijian government promotes and funds education, yet the schools are primitive (by American standards) and resources are limited. We have h…
Solomons Island Charm – Days 250 to 251 – Deltaville, VA to Solmons, MD
After a leisurely Wednesday morning, we departed Deltaville and headed north to Solomons Island, Maryland. Again, we experienced unseasonable 90+ temperatures but, as usual, it was 10 degrees cooler on the water. We covered m…
Croton on Hudson (Half Moon Bay)
Here are some pictures from Half Moon Bay…..AGLCA sponsors they offer a .50/ft discount to members, the owners are trying very hard to build up looper business and are very boater friendly. It is a great stop if you want to visit West Poin…
Sitka Interlude
We have spent the last six days relaxing and completing maintenance on Spirit after the first 1200 miles. It was time for an oil change on the generator, cleaning of the watermaker prefilters, cleaning the fresh water system filters, cleaning sea stra…
Thursday, June 9, 2011
This morning began bright and early with breakfast at 7:30 at Dunkin Donuts with Norm and Sue, and Bob and Nancy, and John, of course. We sat there for two hours chatting before we decided we’d better move along. Bob and Nancy left the harbor and heade…
Beyond NYC
6/5/11 Sunday Before we departed the New York area we had a visit from my cousin Mitch, his wife Sherry and their family. They drove over from their home in New Jersey to have lunch and compare notes about our Fat…
All for Naught
5/30 – 6/1 – Our travels over the next few days proved to be quite frustrating. Our first day out we anchored in Pungo Creek and the second night in Broad Creek. We woke up to millions of blind mosquitoes (aka mayflies) that completely covered the…
All for Naught
5/30 – 6/1 – Our travels over the next few days proved to be quite frustrating. Our first day out we anchored in Pungo Creek and the second night in Broad Creek. We woke up to millions of blind mosquitoes (aka mayflies) that completely covered the…
#47 Roche Harbor
Pardon me while I reach back when we were dreaming about migrant life on a boat; what it might be like, highs and lows, possible show stoppers, etc. So many things we couldn’t foretell, but one thing sure and certain was that we must keep our fam…
