Ketchikan – August 30

After six weeks of poking around north and west of Ketchikan, we motored back into Bar Harbor marina this afternoon. Before pulling in, we stopped at the fuel dock and took on 200 gallons of fuel. I estimate that we had somewhat over 300 gallons of f…

Cocoa Beach – Land of Surf and Beach Bars

Well we are back to living for weekends like most people I guess – we work during the week (Doug in his office and me at the gym and on the boat – I actually had a two day legal project this past week for a former client and it was a total blast. Gues…

Table Project

The table in the saloon was rectangular causing problems when sliding around the settee and making movement in the cabin limited when it was open all the way. The last few months we haven’t used the table…it was just more trouble than it was worth….

Mighty Mississippi River

This is a picture of the Mississippi River from the bridge of our boat.  As you can see it is very muddy (kind of a chocolate brown), very turbulent, and moves very quick.This is some of the debris from the river being flooded.  We spend our …

St. Louis Missouri

This picture of course is the arch at St. Louis with a view from the water.This is a paddle wheeler that runs the river in downtown St. Louis.  There is a lot of boat traffic in this area, barges, towboats, pleasure boats, work boats, you name it …

Detroit/Port Huron/Port Sanilac

DetroitAugust 27DetroitAugust 27After a long day of travel, we pulled into the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle around 5 p.m., with just enough time to chill out, clean up, and put on our “Boogie Shoes” before going to Motor City Casino to see KC a…

Breaking Away

High flyin!

Rick and I are now in Port Washington, Wisconsin. It’s about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Our trip out in Lake Michigan down the coast of Wisconsin has been okay, although yesterday got awfully rough late in the day when we went about 60 miles from Stu…

August 29 – Gardner Bay

What a great day! First, the weather was perfect, light winds and partly sunny as the day wore on. Second, the scenery was spectacular as we motored through protected channels created by the dozens of little islands in the bay. Lastly, we had some unfo…

Havre de Grace to St. Michaels (Aug 20 – Sep 2)

We finally managed to leave Bruce and Joan’s on August 20th. They are such good hosts and in such a nice location, it was easy to keep extending. But we had places to go and things to see! You wouldn’t think that would be the case knowing the amount of…

Not A Great Start To The Weekend

Fuel leaking out of the injector pump. Which was all well and good, albeit potentially expensive. Then a piece of one of the tools broke off & disappeared into the engine. So instead of an injector pump, it’s looking more like dismantling the front…