On Thursday the girls arrived from SLO Town at noon. Pat, Marianne Fonte, and Carolyn French, joined by Chuck arrived at noon. The three couples (Fonte’s, French’s and Benson’s) will be together to Shearwater-Bella Bella in British Columbia…
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Diving as a Pro
After thirty years of enjoying diving all around the world and leading many friends and crew on exciting dives, I took the next step and became a PADI Dive Master. I took the class last year at DiveDownbelow in Kota Kinabalu. It was an excellent …
Birthday in Denmark and Norwegian Cousins
June 25, 2013This morning we depart for Denmark, via Frankfurt, on Lufthansa Airlines to attend a birthday celebration for Lisa Marx. Lisa owns a cabin on the east coast of Denmark, in the town of Hou. Miriam and I will land in Copenhagen about 1530 lo…
2013 Summer Cruise Part 1
July 22, 2013The cruise begins with a sea trial to check out a “stumble” in the Cummins QSL9 engine which has bothered us for several months since it occurs at the engine RPM that we wanted to cruise at. We have been in discussions with Cummi…
#2013-46 Touring Ketchikan
We were in town a couple days before scheduled so on Monday the crew got up to date on Ketchikan by visiting shops, watching the cruise ship tourists, and dining out. It doesn’t take long. Vince and Alex took a long walk 5 miles to the sout…
#2013-46 Touring Ketchikan
We were in town a couple days before scheduled so on Monday the crew got up to date on Ketchikan by visiting shops, watching the cruise ship tourists, and dining out. It doesn’t take long. Vince and Alex took a long walk 5 miles to the sout…
Grenada
The first two weeks were a blur — we watched Wimbledon Tennis all day. Good ole satellite TV — in this part of the world most of the commercials are in Spanish. We are on the south side of Grenada in Prickly Bay. The Grenada Medical School (mostly…
#2013-45 Cape Chacon, McLean Arm then Ketchikan Hospital!
After yesterday’s sojourn, we slept late then headed out to fish the Cape. Once outside, the seas were just too sloppy for comfortable trolling so we proceeded to round the Cape in the mist of a seiner opening. About 30 seiners and their tenders …
#2013-45 Cape Chacon, McLean Arm then Ketchikan Hospital!
After yesterday’s sojourn, we slept late then headed out to fish the Cape. Once outside, the seas were just too sloppy for comfortable trolling so we proceeded to round the Cape in the mist of a seiner opening. About 30 seiners and their tenders …
#2013-44 Hydaburg to Nichols Bay
On Saturday Alex had to do 30 minutes of payables verification but needed cell or wifi service. So we pulled into Hydaburg mid-morning. The dock floats we in a state of construction so we tied up where we could and headed into the small nat…
