Our final route for this leg of our adventure: Oxford, MD to Bear, DE (Summit North Marina-our home).Home-bound routeAs I write this, we are still cruising up the Chesapeake Bay to the Elk River and the C&D Canal. Expect to arrive Summi…
#20 Commissioning Update
Commissioning a boat is a process of elimination. Much of the effort is designed to reduce the number of post delivery problems as possible. The first few months of cruising will expose what was present all along, but went undetected. …
New York Harbor to Long Island Sound
Click here to see where we were at Sandy Hook, NJ. Click here to see where we were in Northport, Long Island, NY Click here to see where we were in Orient, Long Island, NY, just north of Shelter Island Our trip from Atlantic City to the north end of…
Fireworks
We spent the July
4th Independence Day weekend anchored at the head of the Hood Canal (route
map). We went mainly because we’d not anchored there before, and were planning
to stay only fo…
The Big Chute!
Well it is a sad day, after 240 miles of locks, little channels and wonderful sights our time on the Trent Severn Waterway has come to an end. On our last day on the Canal we experienced what is thought to be one of the highlights of the Great Loop. At…
Picton Ontario
Upon arriving in Picton Marnia I was in for the rudest docking awakening yet …as I hopped off the boat to secure the lines (as there was no deck hand to meet us, which was okay) I nearly fell off the pier. The docks which are floating docks are so w…
Oh My God!
We have done the ultimate Polynesian picture perfect thing today! We followed Oso Blanco over to the west side of Tahaa to the motu (small island) Tautau. The channel is 100 plus feet and the reef is about 8 to 12 feet of pure white sand. Oso Blanco br…
Sunshine At Last!
Whining works after all, we have some sunshine. In fact we have beautiful calm And sunshine. We awake in our precarious anchorage on the west side of Raiatea in "glass" calm water and a beautiful sunny day breaking. We lift anchor and head t…
Ed and Connie
The last two days we’ve been at Shipwright Harbor Marina in Deale MD. This is home port to Ed and Connie who we met last summer in Reedville VA when we and they on their sailboat “Surprise” were socked in at Reedville by storms for…
Tilghman Island and the Lost Pooch
We stayed at Tilghman on the Chesapeake for two days, a lovely marina for a nice housing development. Great pool – finally cool water – especially good since it was 102-degrees. Our days were like this – walk/run in the morning after gettin…
