Some time ago, Michele and I bought a Chesapeake Light Craft sailing pram, intending to carry it as our dinghy. Well, it took quite a bit of time, but we finally got the sail kit, had the kit finished, and had the pram modified to accomodate it (thank…
Hokkaido to Yokohama
In the end, we spent 6 days in Hokkaido, just as we had planned. Although we enjoyed being there and the people were wonderful, I look back at it as a bit of a letdown after all of the anticipation. As I said, the people could not have been nicer a…
Good Vector Charts for Mexico
I finally have found some electronic charts of Mexico that are at least of ‘good’ quality. The MapTech electronic raster charts of Mexico are unusable outside of the major port areas. The C-Map that our Furuno chartplotter use are better than MapTech b…
Good Vector Charts for Mexico
I finally have found some electronic charts of Mexico that are at least of ‘good’ quality. The MapTech electronic raster charts of Mexico are unusable outside of the major port areas. The C-Map that our Furuno chartplotter use are better than MapTech b…
Deckhouse On!
The crane has come back (after removing some un-licensed building’s roof in the next village, they don’t mess about here) at at 9.30 we are all ready for the big lift.First thing is to get Heroine out of the boat shed, and she seems reluctant, modest …
Lake Michigan (Aug 12 – 26)
Dodging the fast ferries as we left Mackinac Island, we had an impressive last view of the Grand Hotel before we passed under the Mackinac Bridge which joins the two Michigan peninsulas. The bridge is four miles long and the suspension cables are paint…
Back Creek
Back Creek (Annapolis)8/14 – 8/15/200938° 57.39′ N 76° 29.13′ WHours logged: 4.0Just back from Annapolis yesterday. I took Friday off from work to get busy installing our new dinghy davits, with Mark’s help. Michele had to work, so I packed up the …
Exhausted
Replaced exhaust elbowReplaced beltsDick Vosbury had been to the boat during the week to replace the exhaust elbow and the belts, following last week’s assessment. Take a look at the old elbow — wow — I’m glad we didn’t wait any longer on that! The…
Greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun…Japan
We arrived at the northern most Japanese island, Hokkaido at a town called Tomakomai on the morning of August 4th, after a 5 day sail from Petropavlovsk, Russia. Leaving the Russia mainland we could see some 15 miles away the distant outline of the nor…
Greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun…Japan
We arrived at the northern most Japanese island, Hokkaido at a town called Tomakomai on the morning of August 4th, after a 5 day sail from Petropavlovsk, Russia. Leaving the Russia mainland we could see some 15 miles away the distant outline of the nor…
