Since our ultimate destination is Florida for the winter, wedidn’t want to work our way too far north up the Bay, to only turn around aback track south. It’s time to head beginour trip south. After a few days of R&R in San Domingo C…
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Quick Trip North
With a haul out scheduled for mid-September at Solomons, MDwe departed North Carolina working our way toward the Chesapeake Bay. The weather remained hot and muggy the entiretrip. Even the Chesapeake Bay area wasmuggy. Having arrived …
Tahiti Cruise Day 2-3
The weather was rainy, but not cold as we disembarked in Vancouver with Bill & Ruth Craven. We grabbed a taxi and headed to Yaletown to check out “Cento Notti”, or 100 Days in Italian. We had tried this restaurant last year when it …
Tahiti Cruise Day 1
We had ordered a Shuttle Express town car to take us to Pier 91 and the cruise ship terminal. What actually arrived was a stretch limo, which was just a little over the top. We certainly arrived in style, and in just a few minutes were thro…
Cruise to Tahiti and the Marquesas
With our trip to SE Alaska now complete and Spirit in the yard for maintenance and upgrades, we are getting ready to explore some potential future destinations for Spirit.We depart Seattle on the MS Westerdam, a Holland America ship for a 35 day cruise…
#19 Princess Louisa To Anacortes, WA and the end of our 2011 Alaska Cruise
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 – PLI to Secret CoveToday we left Princess Louisa Inlet on the way to Secret Cove on BC’s Sunshine Coast. Unfortunately, Alex made two mistakes today. The first was a miscalculation of current at Malibu Rapids….
Foster home
Molly & Black Dog chilling on the pier Tuesday morning’s plan was a short hop in the car with Molly to pick up a new lav bowl. As we headed to the parking lot, we met an unfamiliar dog. Friendly enough guy, appeared to be a lab-pit mix as a…
#18 Port McNeill to Princess Louisa Inlet
Monday, August 29th, 2011 – Port McNeill to Port NevilleOver the weekend we relaxed then visited and enjoyed the company of Vera and Len from the Selene 53 Chatham II. These Canadians cruise to Northern BC each summer and we seem to run…
“The List” is self-perpetuating- an oops adds….
Master lav removed, access to vacuum switch. A simple pumpout. No big deal. Odd that the forward head didn’t shut off after flushing a few bowls of fresh water, so I knew I was in for some maintenance. The guest head had had the vacuum switch r…
Training the New Crew
Picture: Exploring the Foredeck (Continued…)
