Our Adventure in Washington, DC

Friday October 8th/ 17th – Shortly before noon we tied up at the Gangplank marina. Our plans were to spend a week in Washington, DC, to visit with family and to explore, how wonderful! We had an amazingly busy week. We spent a few days tourin…

The good Life at Coinjock NC

 Coinjock NC is just one of those places. It is ideally situated from Portsmouth Va by 50 statute miles. Given bridgeslocks and slow speeds, it is a very common first stop south along the ICW. It is really no more than a wide place in the water, b…

Down River – Chicago to the Ohio River

Friday, September 17thParked BargesOnce we left the downtown area it is all industrial. Scrap yards, train yards, and a boat yard. I am wondering where they put all of the boats in Winter. There are thousands of boats and we only saw one storage yard w…

Back to the first world

Position:  01.20N  103.38WIt's no coincidence that as I write this the Singapore Stock Exchange is making a bid for it's Australian counterpart. Coming from Indonesia we are finding it a huge culture shock to be in such an incredibly modern c…

Breaking Away

Mississippi Meandering

It’s been 8 days since my last posting, so I’ll be brief to keep this from being a novel. We have traveled 215 miles southward in those 8 days, on the Tennessee River in TN, and then on the Tenn-Tom Canal in Mississippi. The scenery, friendly people an…

More main cabin floors

More work on the main cabin floors this weekend. This is where the galley, sitting room, Sams cabin, forward head, etc will be located. Its a pretty big area and there are some floor elevation changes due to the tankage and the way the boat sweeps up t…

New Project….Can anyone guess what these are for?

Picked these up for $100, for BOTH!

2.5 x 40…..this ROCKS………I feel like I stole them……LOL

New Project….Can anyone guess what these are for?

Picked these up for $100, for BOTH!

2.5 x 40…..this ROCKS………I feel like I stole them……LOL

Here is a Question to ALL…

Here is a Question to ALL…