We traveled 24 miles from Traverse City to Elk Rapids on 6/20 and stepped back to small town Americana at its best. In our 7 days here, we’ve had 5 days of rain and NOAA which usually forecasts weather in technical terms ran out of descriptions and …
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Northern Lake Michigan Traverse City 6-19-11
It is good to be back on the water again!!!!! After a week’s worth of inside boat projects at Northport Bay Boat Yard (we recommend them highly) and some reprovisioning and more projects at Northport, we headed off on 6/14 to explore Grand Traverse B…
New aft head installed!
Well, another boat project is done! I mentioned briefly in my last post that we were going to install new heads. I decided to go a step at a time and just do the aft head first, see how we like it, then do the front head and possibly add a second hold…
Sun has set on Great Loop adventure
Today I “crossed my wake” on Breaking Away, and the end has come to this glorious Great Loop trip after 14 months. This picture captures the very moment I reached the spot near the originating marina in Kent Narrows where I turned north back on May 4, …
Arrived at our first Tennessee Destination: Chattanooga
We promised earlier to post some more pics/videos of the “Grand Canyon of the Tennessee River.” Connectivity was bad then. It’s much better here so we will include those pics here now. First, here is our cruise map for our final …
#49 Victoria
Ahhh Victoria … not just the provincial capital of British Colombia. This is one of the most captivating sea ports in the world. The “City of Gardens” is quaint, utterly beautiful and chock full of old-world charm. Victoria’s namesake was the great Queen Victoria. The stamp of Victorian England is indelible. But stuffy? Anything but. Victoria is a melting pot of nationalities of all ages. The city is interesting and vibrantly alive. Founded in 1843 as the old Hudson Bay fort, downtow…
#49 Victoria
Ahhh Victoria … not just the provincial capital of British Colombia. This is one of the most captivating sea ports in the world. The “City of Gardens” is quaint, utterly beautiful and chock full of old-world charm. Victoria’s …
Fun in Solomons!
What a delightful scene to wake up to last Saturday morning, a line of birds on my bow rail. I just didn’t want them to poop, since we’d spent much time cleaning the boat! One of the highlights of the previous two days was watching all the birds and th…
Off-season update – and are we trading Sea Spirit for a bigger model?
Sea Spirit, being unloaded, before we owned her
Sorry to have left some of you hanging after the last blog entry at the end of April. We greatly enjoyed the remainder of our spring cruising season in the Exumas. Sea Spirit is now back in Fort Laud…
From the Erie Canal to Lake Ontario
Sunday morning, June 12th, it was chilly and threatening rain, but we were anxious to be on our way through the first several locks of the Erie Canal, so at 7:35 a.m. we untied the dock lines and headed for Lock #2. This time, Ken secured a line a…
