Rick and I returned to Breaking Away in Havana, IL as planned! I brought with me my new Great Loop burgee (the triangular yachtsman flag). Now I’m official. Well, at least now others will know we’re doing the Great Loop. I’ve been a member of the Am Gr…
Catching Up and Slimming Down
Welcome back everyone. We know we have been negligent in updating the blog and we apologize for our lapse in timeliness. Here’s a summary of how we got here. We’ve done a lot since our last update in August. But first, here is a link you can click on t…
Lunenburg
Did I mention the lobster was Delicious? We each had a 2 pounder. Yummmm!Wednesday we decided we should walk downtown to check out the shops and to work off the lobster from the previous night. Lunenburg was settled in 1753 by the British. The plans fo…
October 5, 2010
Almost Monday. Hey, it takes a bit to get back into the groove! We did stay in Newburgh until, Wed., and Thurs., and Fri., and Sat., and Sunday… On Monday Sept 27, we dropped the VW Eos off to get a minor repair. D…
Rainbows, shallow water, stumps—-oh my
We are now entering the river section of the Tombigbee waterway as we have finished the canal and the cut sections. These are the trees, I think they are cedar of some sort and they are standing in water.This was a beautiful full rainbow. W…
TropStock Rocked!!!
What an absolutely awesome weekend of sun, friends and unbelievably great music (a few coldies here and there didn’t hurt either)!!! We just had one of those very rare, perfect weekends – the only issue is that it went by way too fast and we’ve got to…
Vava’u, Tonga
The last part of our crossing from Niuatoputapu to Vava'u was some of the smoothest water we have seen since our Mexico/Nuka Hiva trip. As close as you can come to "glass" in this huge undulating body of water, and three to four knots of …
Aft cabin sub-floor
Moving on to the aft cabin floor now… same drill as the passageway floor but a little more complicated with more hatches and a black-water tank below deck. installed the tank and began framing up for the hatch coamings. Need to decide exactly where a…
NY to VA: Wonderful, Weird, Wild and Wicked Weather!
We’ve started several blog postings only to get distracted by one thing or another, but we finally decided we need to post something, anything, so everyone knows we are still around and all is well! We have much to share about the summer’s adventures, including videos, but we’re having some technical difficulties in getting them […]
Rick, Deb and Izzy Aboard M/V Broulee and other Wild Adventures 2010-10-04 13:40:00
DEB DOES HER FIRST MARATHON. Ok so I didn’t run in it, but I was a fabulous spectator/cheerleader. The Twin Cities Marathon is touted to be The Most Beautiful Urban Marathon in America. This year the 29th annual Medtronic Twin City Ma…
