Moving on to the aft cabin floor now… same drill as the passageway floor but a little more complicated with more hatches and a black-water tank below deck. installed the tank and began framing up for the hatch coamings. Need to decide exactly where a…
NY to VA: Wonderful, Weird, Wild and Wicked Weather!
We’ve started several blog postings only to get distracted by one thing or another, but we finally decided we need to post something, anything, so everyone knows we are still around and all is well! We have much to share about the summer’s adventures, including videos, but we’re having some technical difficulties in getting them […]
Rick, Deb and Izzy Aboard M/V Broulee and other Wild Adventures 2010-10-04 13:40:00
DEB DOES HER FIRST MARATHON. Ok so I didn’t run in it, but I was a fabulous spectator/cheerleader. The Twin Cities Marathon is touted to be The Most Beautiful Urban Marathon in America. This year the 29th annual Medtronic Twin City Ma…
The Beautiful Tennessee River
September 24, 2010 – October 3, 2010 We followed the Tennessee River to the Yellow Creek where the Tenn-Tom Riverway begins. We stayed at Grand Harbor Marina who has a courtesy van, enabling Laura and Bill (Monkey Girl) and Heidi and Kelly (…
Weekend Wrap-Up
Our yacht club asked us to do a dinner Friday and give a presentation about the Pacific Cup. The boat owners put together a slide show / video and Matt and I served tacos for dinner. That only took three trips to Costco and one to a Mexican…
Heading South Take Two
Saturday October 2nd / 4th- It’s very easy to tell when the captain and crew were antsy to leave. Both of us were up and dressed by 6:30am and we didn’t bat an eye. Both of us went to task at getting the Summer Wind prepared for departu…
Tropical Depression Nicole and other unwanted
ArabellaWednesday September 29th- October 2nd – Dropped our mooring ball line early in the morning and headed down the Severn River. Instead of turning south for St. Michaels, our destination today was back north to Worton Cr…
Fells Point Fun
It doesn’t take a festival to have fun in Fells Point but boy, what a festival there was this weekend. Sandwiched between two storm fronts, the weekend festival covered a few miles of closed streets with hundreds of booths, food items, and fun.We found…
Work and Play,,, Worton Creek
Worton Creek AnchorageSunday Sept. 19th – “Flexibility” or “Adaptability” is the key word when boating. Well we heard the NOAA report for Monday morning and made the decision not to follow the CBC cruise to Still Pond. If we wanted to…
French Cuisine
This is the restaurant where we tasted the “French cuisine” and it was worth coming to Metz for. The meal took 3 hours, partly because it took a while to figure out the menu!!! If nothing else, the duck liver (famous in France) was excellent, as was th…
