(Wednesday Aug 29 to Tuesday Sept 4)
The Illinois Valley Yacht Club, what a great club. The members have welcomed us and encouraged us to participate in all of their Holiday Weekend activities. One of the highlights has been the Pig R…
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#32 – Port McNeill to Anacortes: The End of Our 2012 Alaska Cruise
On Friday evening, August 24th, we borrowed the Fuel Dock van and picked up crew Dick Squire at Port Hardy airport. Dick is the perfect crew having owned and operated some 40+ large boats through the years. He and his crew aboard Seagate, a…
#32 – Port McNeill to Anacortes: The End of Our 2012 Alaska Cruise
On Friday evening, August 24th, we borrowed the Fuel Dock van and picked up crew Dick Squire at Port Hardy airport. Dick is the perfect crew having owned and operated some 40+ large boats through the years. He and his crew aboard Seagate, a…
#31 – Single-Handed Around Cape Caution
Normally we like to cruise with at least one crew. In fact Alex likes a crowd aboard. But there are times, due to unforeseen circumstances, crew is just not available. Such was the case Sunday, August 19th once Alex placed Admiral…
#31 – Single-Handed Around Cape Caution
Normally we like to cruise with at least one crew. In fact Alex likes a crowd aboard. But there are times, due to unforeseen circumstances, crew is just not available. Such was the case Sunday, August 19th once Alex placed Admiral…
Censorship is frustrating
Merhaba,
We spent almost a year in China and I don’t remember experiencing the frustration of blocked website the way I have since we’ve returned to Turkey this year. China blocks facebook, but I don’t really do facebook …
Labor Day weekend
Well, I spent my Labor Day weekend doing a lot of labor on the boat. After spending most of last weekend installing the hydraulic steering pump for the auto pilot (got to do this job twice because of some initial bad info from the manufacturer regardin…
Beardstown, IL and Logstons tug barge
The dredded dredge blocks the Illinois River with floating pipe and cables connected to bouys. Usually you go outside of all the bouys. This time the MJ had to weave between them. A long twelve-hour day with lots of entertainment filled our day. We left Hamms Marina by 6 a.m. and crossed Lake Peoria into Peoria, […]
Monday, Sepember 3, 2012
We left bright and early this morning, and cruised the Mississippi River from where it meets the Illinois River to Hoppies. We passed through two locks to get here and there are no more locks until we reach the Ohio River. This is qui…
The Great Book Of Anchorages
Susan and I are very, very, very excited to announce the start up of Beach House Publications. Our first book for The Great Book Of Anchorages series covers the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk/Hampton Roads to the Florida Keys and includes …
