On Friday, July 6, we drove south about 10 miles to Nyack, NY on the west side of the Hudson River to visit the home of the famous artist Edward Hopper.Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker who achieved fame in the 1920s for his …
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Frasher Park Marina, Trenton, ON – 7/8/12
This morning the marina virtually cleared out at 8 a.m. with most of the loopers heading west including Quest & Marc’s Ark. Our intended destination was Picton, ON.Leaving Confederation Basin43 foot Kha Shing Vista – KARMA We passed…
Dow’s Lake, Ottawa, On
Inukshuk on the grounds of Rideau HallThe changing of the Queen’s FootguardWayne worked on the boat, changing filters etc to make sure that we would have 2 engines running as we travel over the next few days, found pieces of plastic in the fuel lines a…
Dow’s Lake, Ottawa, On
Inukshuk on the grounds of Rideau HallThe changing of the Queen’s FootguardWayne worked on the boat, changing filters etc to make sure that we would have 2 engines running as we travel over the next few days, found pieces of plastic in the fuel lines a…
Year 2 Day 103
Today is Sunday, July 8th and we are at Peterborough, Ontario. Tomorrow we go through the Peterborough Lift Lock which has me a little intimidated. This lock was completed in 1904 and was considered an engineering marvel at that time. There are t…
Atlantic City
We left Cape May at 0900 bound for Atlantic City, NJ a distance of 45 miles in the Atlantic. Forecast was good so off we went. I had never visited Atlantic City so I was surprised by the number of large hotels and casinos, many bearing Tr…
July 7 – Lockhart, TX
4th of July CelebrationWinter Harbor MarinaWe flew home to Texas yesterday and spent today celebrating July 4th with family. Stan’s sister and brother in-law put on an old fashion 4th of July celebration on the first Saturday of July…lots of …
What a Miserable Day!
Our A/C is on the blink again. The brand new seawater pump I had installed a few weeks ago in Isle of Hope burned out. The A/C tech here said it was undersized and only had enough capacity for the smallest of my three A/C compressors.&…
Security: Bocas Attack
July 8, 2012 – Portobelo (Panama)Violent attacks on boats… you think it’s not really going to happen, not to anyone you know, and certainly not to you. And then, one morning, you hear the report on the VHF or the SSB… as we did this morni…
Stay Cool
It should come as no surprise that conversation around here and amongst our extended wandering friends is dominated by the heat – the effects of water and air temperatures on us and our machines. Everybody is hot. Everything is hot. So let’s think cool, clear water. And to co-opt the signature phrase of the most interesting man […]
