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…
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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…
Didim marina and Yachtwork
Didim Marina is a brand new marina. It opened in 2010 and has room for 580 boats in the water of which 41 can be over 30 meter.We were told that you don’t want to go there because there is no infrastructure and it is away from everywhere. Yes it is a c…
Let Us In
Some of the best news we had in a long time came yesterday in a phone call. We had received a letter from our insurance agent for the boat about a month ago, and Sharon did a follow up email last week. When Sharon d…
Day 3 – Pt. Judith to Newport
Today we woke up in Pt. Judith at the ungodly hour of 6am. Why would anyone get up at that hour while on vacation you ask? Well if you anything about the Pt. Judith Marina, it’s for the blueberry pancakes over at the Snug Harbor Marina! &n…
A shave and a hear cut "two bits"
In Turkey getting a shave and a hair cut is a real treat. They go all the way!!! Harold sounded a bit comprehensive when they got the torch going to get rid of unwanted hair in the ears.A couple of final snips and, whala, we looked an…
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