This Saturday is our sixth wedding anniversary so we thought we’d do something really romantic–be race committee for a club race and then host a pot luck dinner at the club! I suppose this is fitting since we DID meet at the Yacht Club (in June …
Arrgh…Married Again!
Every five years, Karen and I have gotten re-married. We’ve gone as far as flying to Las Vegas to getting re-married by a local minister in Castine. So with our 25th anniversary, the 5 year alarm clock went off.I called the City of Baltimore and attemp…
20 Sept 2010 – Bringing Arcadia I Home at last
This belated posting represents the end of the “Extended Sea Trial” we’ve been on since we first took ownership of Arcadia I in Skagway in late June of last year. After well over 10,000 nautical miles under the keel, …
Deer, Carp, Fog, Mississippi River!
Rick and I returned to Breaking Away in Havana, IL as planned! I brought with me my new Great Loop burgee (the triangular yachtsman flag). Now I’m official. Well, at least now others will know we’re doing the Great Loop. I’ve been a member of the Am Gr…
Catching Up and Slimming Down
Welcome back everyone. We know we have been negligent in updating the blog and we apologize for our lapse in timeliness. Here’s a summary of how we got here. We’ve done a lot since our last update in August. But first, here is a link you can click on t…
Lunenburg
Did I mention the lobster was Delicious? We each had a 2 pounder. Yummmm!Wednesday we decided we should walk downtown to check out the shops and to work off the lobster from the previous night. Lunenburg was settled in 1753 by the British. The plans fo…
October 5, 2010
Almost Monday. Hey, it takes a bit to get back into the groove! We did stay in Newburgh until, Wed., and Thurs., and Fri., and Sat., and Sunday… On Monday Sept 27, we dropped the VW Eos off to get a minor repair. D…
Rainbows, shallow water, stumps—-oh my
We are now entering the river section of the Tombigbee waterway as we have finished the canal and the cut sections. These are the trees, I think they are cedar of some sort and they are standing in water.This was a beautiful full rainbow. W…
TropStock Rocked!!!
What an absolutely awesome weekend of sun, friends and unbelievably great music (a few coldies here and there didn’t hurt either)!!! We just had one of those very rare, perfect weekends – the only issue is that it went by way too fast and we’ve got to…
Vava’u, Tonga
The last part of our crossing from Niuatoputapu to Vava'u was some of the smoothest water we have seen since our Mexico/Nuka Hiva trip. As close as you can come to "glass" in this huge undulating body of water, and three to four knots of …
