A highlight was spending a few days at a wonderful marina at dock street in Tacoma. Tacoma??? Yep. Don’t tell anyone else. The Glass Museum was right at the dock and so was the exceptional Washington State Museum of history. Plus, there were outst…
Tag Archives | Grand Banks
#44 December 2011 New Smyrna – Merritt Island – Boca Raton – Ft. Lauderdale – Marathon
December 2011
New Smyrna – Merritt Island – Boca Raton – Ft. Lauderdale – Marathon
Tree within a tree
On December 1, we sadly bade our New Smyrna sailing friends, John and Cozette, adieu but not before seeing the city’s tree within a tree in…
#40 November 2011 Wild Dunes, SC – St. Mary’s, GA – New Smyrna Beach, FL #40
November 2011
The captain staring longingly out to sea from the Wild Dunes Pavilion
This month we broke our record for staying in one place for the longest amount of time. When we arrived Wild Dunes (Charleston), 1 August, our intent wa…
#39 Wild Dunes, SC. October 2011
October 2011Blog # 39
This month continues to find us securely snugged in our slip in Wild Dunes. Boat work continues—sanding, varnishing, cleaning, draperies finally finished and hanging…. Thought we’d be southward bound by this t…
The Other Side of Life – Bayview Yacht Club Team Race – yeah!
Now that we are home, Jim and I are settling into our “normal” life. We don’t yet have Crawdad in her new home in heated storage (so we can work on her!), but we are enjoying our routine. Crawdad has a new galley countertop and the canvas on …
Shelburne Shipyard, Muriel June’s Winter Home
Muriel June in her winter resting place after two days of being “winterized” The tent will be constructed in November. Muriel June is lifted out of Lake Champlain on her way to her winter resting place. Shelburne Shipyard is the oldest continuously run shipyard in the country established in 1810. Because Lake Champlain played such an […]
#38 Isle of Palms, SC September 2011
September was an exceptionally fun month for us as we were securely tied to our slip in Wild Dunes. Long ago when we were gainfully employed in Greenville, SC, we faithfully arose at 4:40 each weekday morning to meet a group of friends at 5:30 A.M.&nb…
The Burlington Reunion and Good-byes
Champaign reunion toast aboard the Muriel June Muriel June packs up her belongings for a winter in Vermont Plastic tubs are piled high on the aft deck of the Muriel June as we remove two years of work, maps, and materials. Some will be stored in the Gillman basement, while other materials will be shipped […]
Burlington, We Have Arrived! The Reunion!
Just imagine a brilliant blue sky day, with low humidity about 75 degrees and mirror calm water. That was our ride up the Lake Champlain today. We passed two trawlers and 8 sailboats with their masts stepped for the canal heading south. We, alone, headed north, from a foggy harbor this morning about 4 hours […]
