We woke Thursday morning to an overcast sky and a high likelihood of rain as we sat 100 plus miles east of a shallow low pressure center over Lake Erie and fronts to the north (stationary) and south (warm). These conditions suggested a high likel…
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More Beautiful Scenery – Peterborough to Fenelon Falls
Peterborough proved to by a lovely moderate sized city of 80,000, which motivated us to stay an extra day. We also wanted to check out their health food store to see if they sold the raw seeds I need to make my protein shakes. Unfortunately…
Hiking in Killarney
“Boat-In-Theater” where they show a movie on the screen on the opposite shore and you tune to a FM Radio station for the sound on your boat. After an ice cream party last night, the last of our Grand Banks friends departed this morning, but there is still a lot of action here in Killarney. […]
Raw Water System
Thought it would be interesting to go back to some boat system details (Now I know some of you are yawning, but I like this stuff!). So here goes with a look at the raw water system. First a few … Continue reading →
Valleyfield to Montreal, QC
We had a reservation for a week in Montreal, so we planned our longest day 55 miles and 4 St Lawrence Seaway locks, an optimistic schedule. We booked a marina after 2 locks to be safe. We followed a freighter soon after we left the marina…
Heading for Chichester
Glen and Mike came sailing on Arctic Rose again.Here you see Mike on the helm, with Glen supervising, as we head out of Southampton water relatively early on Saturday morning.Plenty going on, but not a lot of wind for sailing.
Heading for Chichester
Glen and Mike came sailing on Arctic Rose again.Here you see Mike on the helm, with Glen supervising, as we head out of Southampton water relatively early on Saturday morning.Plenty going on, but not a lot of wind for sailing.
Up up and away we go
I climbed back up on the hull for the first time since I had my lil’ accident. Managed the ladders pretty good. Knee felt tight but ok.I had almost forgotten what it looked like up there! I did some sanding for an hour or so on the taped seams getting …
Town Dock, Little Current, ON – 7/31/12
We had made arrangements to take our dinghy to Harbor Vue Marina this morning to see if it could safely be repaired. The marina is located just past the swing bridge that only opens on the hour so we timed our departure for the 9 a.m. opening.Min…
Mocking up the galley
Last weekend we worked on the galley mock-up and now have the layout pretty much figured out and appliances located. The blank spaces under the temporary counter top will be filled in with base cabinets. For the uppers, we ended up making the test layo…
