Team helicopters on hand for action photos cavorted way low over the water and added to the general din for this vroom-vroom crowd. Nothing, however, compared to the ear-cracking racket from the powerboats as they chewed the surface at close range to…
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Lake Michigan Fall 2011
After returning from Lake Superior, we decided to use Grand Haven, MI as our base of operation for the remainder of the year. This also gives us a chance to return home to Chattanooga for a few weeks. Although we very much enjoy the boating life, it is good to spend some time at our […]
FLUKE Finishes the Champlain Canal
September 16 – 18, 2011Our next planned stop after leaving Lock 7 was the wonderful little town of Mechanicville, located between Lock 2 and Lock 3. The lowest bridge on the Champlain Canal is between Lock 4 and Lock 3, and we got under it without …
Back on Puffin
The missus and I are most happy to be back aboard Puffin after a couple of weeks at home in Vermont. Irene did more damage to infrastructure and houses in southern and central Vermont than perhaps any other natural disaster there ever before. Many to…
Thank You Captain
Despite the rain all day, today was a pleasure to be on the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). We managed to get an early start at 0715 this morning at Hospital Point, Mile 0 on the ICW charts. As with last year, we took …
Cruising on the Champlain Canal: Locks 9 – 3
September 11 – 15, 2011For this section of locks, after leaving Lock 11, we ended up spending one night at Lock 9 and four nights at Lock 7. I'm going to divide the post into canal scenery for the lock series and then Lock 7 history and activit…
It’s Show Time!
The Newport International Boat Show officially opens today at 10 am. The opening is announced with the firing of what sounds like a cannon; the sound is still fading when the gates open and a stream of boat-loving humanity streams in.Before the f…
Trapped in the Champlain Canal: Locks 12 and 11: The Sea Stooges biggest blunder
September 6 – 10, 2011In the chronological order of the blog, by date, I wrote that we had gone all the way to the southern end of Lake Champlain and had wanted to lock through Lock 12 to get into the Champlain Canal. However, Lock 12 was closed. …
an other trip comes to a close.
We are home!!!!It is good to be home, however the trip that took us over the Rhine, Main, Main Danube canal, Danube, Danube Black sea canal. Black sea, Bosporus,sea of Marmara, Dardanelles, and into the Aegean sea is one we will look back on and have f…
Home via Istanbul
We traveled from Didim (the marina) to Izmir, a 2 hour car ride. In Izmir we boarded a plain to Istanbul. We had one overnight in Istanbul before we continue to Toronto via Kiev.We arrived in Istanbul mid afternoon so that gave us just enou…
