May 26 – June 7, 2010

A quick note before you launch into this very long blog entry. Mark, Porter and I are back in Minnesota. We want to take care of some business here during the summer rather than come back for a Minnesota winter. We have Grateful “on the hard” in N Myrt…

Starr

Starr in the Sea of Japn – Hagi

Hagi – 34 26N/131 25E

June 7-13, 2010

Starr in the Sea of Japan

I am home now in Seattle when I write this story and it is very difficult to “enter into” the story of Starr in the Sea of Japan.  It feels like Japan is so far away:  n…

Starr

Yasugi, Matsue and Izumo-taisha

Yasugi-Matsue-Izumo
June 11-12

Yasugi – Adachi Museum and Garden

We left Hagi early Friday morning on a fast trip north, up the coast of the Sea of Japan to Yasugi to visit Adachi Museum and Gardens.  Adachi came highly recommended by our Waik…

R/V Cape Hatteras Heads to Gulf

R/V Cape Hatteras Heads to Gulf Oil Spill for 10-Day Research Cruise
— Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University
Contact: Bruce Corliss, (919) 684-2951, bruce.corliss@duke.edu; or Tim Lucas, (919) 613-8084, tdlucas@duke.edu
June 7, 2010
DURHAM, N.C. – The R/V Cape Hatteras, a 135-foot oceangoing research vessel operated by the Duke/University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium (DUNCOC), […]

Installing A Marine Electrical Panel In A Day

Prior to purchasing Beach House, we had a thorough survey done by Bob Dulce from Hilton Head South Carolina. Bob knows the Marine Traders intimately, as he has been involved with them since the first hull was imported into the U.S. He is also an excell…

Captain’s Log Update as off 6/2 to 6/13/2010

Captain’s Log – June 11, 2010

We are off on our second adventure, this time to Alaska! We arrived in Seattle on June 2, and proceeded to Elliott Bay Marina, which is located right downtown.  A professional captain brought up our boat from D…

Captain’s Log Update as off 6/2 to 6/13/2010

Captain’s Log – June 11, 2010

We are off on our second adventure, this time to Alaska! We arrived in Seattle on June 2, and proceeded to Elliott Bay Marina, which is located right downtown.  A professional captain brought up our boat from D…

GSSR 2010 No. 11 – The Chili Was A Bad Idea

Greetings all!

The GSSR group departed Nagasaki Japan at 05:30 headed to Amami island, 263nm south, in the Ryukyu Island chain. Th…

Cruising with cats

We’ve cruised with two different cats: Gremlin was 10 years old before we introduced
him to boating and Spitfire was a kitten when brought him aboard several years later.
Both have enjoyed being on the boat and have seemed as content afloat as …

4 June 2010 – Loaded onto Dockwise

This posting is in response to a lot of interest in the process of shipping on Dockwise that has been expressed by other cruisers. Arcadia I has been shipped this way four times now, although the first three times were while she was owned by Dave …