Dana Point to Cabo San Lucas

1/24/2010  Sunday
Dana Point

The week of storms subsided today and provided us with an opportunity to begin Odyssey’s maiden voyage.  She is full to the gunnels with parts, food and equipment.  All that is left is to fill’r up!&nbsp…

Dana Point to Cabo San Lucas

1/24/2010  Sunday
Dana Point

The week of storms subsided today and provided us with an opportunity to begin Odyssey’s maiden voyage.  She is full to the gunnels with parts, food and equipment.  All that is left is to fill’r up!&nbsp…

January & February 2010

1-15-10
The beginning of January has been busy.  David enjoyed his week and even though the weather had more rain and cloudy days than earlier in December, we managed to get 3 good days of snorkeling in.  We had lots of fun taking underwater…

Travels of The Rose 2010-01-27 15:33:00

We have slowly and surely adapted to the slower pace here at our Melbourne Beach home. While most of our cruising friends have already passed through, Bill and Robin on Blue Magic have decided to spend the winter in Stuart, FL. We drove down to visit w…

January 25, 2010

Greetings from Sanibel Island, FL!  Last Monday was as beautiful as Sunday was blustery!  No rain, very little wind, and a fine run for us across the FL panhandle to our jumping off spot for the Gulf Crossing.

Our arrival time at the East Pa…

Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-01-22 17:00:00

I went scuba diving today out at Sombrero Reef, which is a nearby marine sanctuary coral reef. I went on a dive boat, of which there are many around here, because a fellow Hatteras Owner’s Forum member, Pat Murphy, recommended it. There has been poo…

STARTING A NEW YEAR

In the New Year, when we arrived in Florida from Portland, OR, we couldn’t believe that it was colder in Jacksonville than in OR. Something is wrong here. We had just spent Christmas with our daughter and her family in Portland, and before that we ha…

Leixos (Porto) to Cascais via Figuiera da Foz

14th January 2010
We returned to the boat in time to rendezvous with my sister, Eileen, and her husband Terry who visited us as part of an “epic” itinerary from Australia – encompassing the Far East, Switzerland, Paris and Helsinki……. &n…

Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-01-21 15:46:00

Just enjoying Marathon Key today. It was 82 degrees and sunny all day.This is our lunchtime view from the aft deck, right into the Atlantic Ocean, with beautiful turquoise water, Ospreys and Pelicans fishing in the flats, and constant little fish jump…

Entering the Erie Canal

At the start of week two – that was at 4:00 today we were sitting at the dock in Waterford, NY. We are officially on the Erie Canal. Somehow this kind of marks the start of the trip for me. We started early this morning (7:00 am) from Catskill…