Tag Archives | trawlers

Year 2 Day 97 – Oswego, NY

Today is Monday, July 2nd and we're here in Oswego getting ready to cross the big lake – Ontario.  We left Little Falls on Saturday morning arriving at Sylvan Beach in the early afternoon.  What a wild scene that was!  It was party time for all …

Kingston and Rescue at Sea

House on an island with your boat floating in the basement Leaving a beautiful port is always difficult, but at 8 a.m. this morning we were tied to the fuel dock to fill up in the USA (Alexandria Bay) before heading to Canada again.  The price was $3.80 compared to $5.15 in Montreal.  So, we […]

Happy CANADA Day!!

It’s been awhile since we’ve posted, and we have adventures to share, but in this quick post, we want assure everyone we made it through the Kirkfield Lock just fine-  In fact, it was slightly anticlimactic after all the hype and discussion AND the challenges of the waterways both before and after our ride in […]

New Day, New Plan

We have been here in Beaufort North Carolina for the past 2 days. This is an awesome place to stay and we plan to spend more time here on our way back down the East Coast, rent a car and do some NC site seeing. The internet is good here, Jul…

Snappa’s Marsh Harbour

Cool little Restaurant on the HarbourNordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs

Time to prioritize

It’s looking like our current vessel (Seabird) will be sold at the end of July leaving us without a permanent home until we get the new boat finished and launched. With that in mind we have set a target of early October to have Kama Hele in the water. …

Touch up spray painting

It occurred to me when asking the guys at http://marineware.com/ about the paint I needed, to ask if they knew of some kind of compressed air arrangement, like the spray paint cans you can buy, which would work with small amounts of their pai…

Touch up spray painting

It occurred to me when asking the guys at http://marineware.com/ about the paint I needed, to ask if they knew of some kind of compressed air arrangement, like the spray paint cans you can buy, which would work with small amounts of their pai…

Chevy’s Tattoo and 70 MPH Winds

Yesterday was another hot one here in Savannah.   Most of us stayed inside our boats during the day, coming out only for happy three hours.    There was a wedding party at the pavilion so we invited folks over to our dock.&nbsp…

The run to Abaco…

Was a delightful one. The seas were flat and the whole trip went by without a splash over the rails. Our kinda day!It started by threading our way though Nassau Harbor at first light. We had to work our way around these guy, but luckily the pilots gave…