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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 …

Adventure

Adventure N-62 Hull 22 2010-06-08 08:20:00

June 7, 2010Today was a low key day. It rained most of the day an we just lounged around and made preparations for departing. We were informed that Customs was delay due to a mud slide blocking the road and we would have to wait until Tuesday morning t…

Adventure

Adventure N-62 Hull 22 2010-06-08 08:20:00

June 6, 2010We went for a jungle tour on the river over to a resort with a magnificent beach of black sand. The water was warm as a bath tub. The resort was very clean an appeared to be located in the middle of nowhere.

Adventure

Adventure N-62 Hull 22 2010-06-08 08:16:00

June 5, 2010Up early to check out our surroundings. I met an individual by the name of Craig McBride. He is originally from Santa Barbra, California and owns property here in Golfito. He informed us of a nature hike we could do in the rainforest. He sa…

Adventure

Adventure N-62 Hull 22 2010-06-08 07:07:00

June 3, 2010Coiba Island PanamaWe intended to make it to the island by morning, however due to heavy seas, we had to pull back on the throttle. Only making 6 knots over ground moved our arrival to 4:30. We found a snug harbor on the north end of the is…

Adventure

Adventure N-62 Hull 22 2010-06-08 07:07:00

June 4, 201001:00 we pulled up the hook and headed for Golfito Costa Rica. We had planned our arrival to be around noon, but again heavier than anticipated seas add a couple of hours.14:30 we arrived at Fish Hook Marina and were treated with wonderfull…