Greetings all!
I’m happy to report that the GSSR group is leaving Nagasaki after three weeks here. As I type this, I am firing up engines.
This next leg is a long one; 250 nm of open ocean heading almost exactly due south. We’ll be traveling for 33 h…
May 30, 2010We spent the morning preparing ADVENTURE for the trip though the canal. We changed the oil and filters on the main and check the other fluids and vitals in the engine room. With this out of the way, we spent the rest of our time lounging a…
Waterford- everything after this is from 2009Tuesday 29 September 2009Cleaning and catching up day today. The surprise was that as we were eating lunch I looked up and here was a really big canal boat (about 65′) that looked like it was about to hit us…
Friends and Family Tuesday 15 SeptemberNice slow day down the canal. Cool and clear (mostly). Arrived in Pittsford early and tied up next to a large collection of Duck poop. There were several hundred ducks on the lock wall when we arrived. Found out t…
Lake’s EndIf you saw the last pictures I never mentioned the Green Goo. Going to Erie we came to this green goo. It looked as if it were green food dye in the water. As you could see from one of the pictures it stretched for about two miles. It was som…
Thursday, August 20Looked calm this morning. Weather Guessers thought the waves would not build until afternoon and the wind would be 10-15 out of the south. As with most weather predictions on the lakes this one was wrong also.When we go out on to the…
The charts and engineers that is. When the bridge heights are only inches above your boat height it looks really scary. The first really low bridge we slowed way down to double check the clearance. I stood at the doorway and reached up and smacked the …
