Week two – Plan B HAH! Bet you thought we did not have a Plan B. Well we did, Since we were going to rent a car anyway, why not keep on moving to some new places and rent a car from there? After all in a boat (ours anyway) 40 miles is a day and 100 m…
Travels of The Rose 2010-06-22 08:53:00
After an enjoyable winter in Melbourne Beach, FL we moved The Rose from her winter berth at Wharf Marina to Greenwich Bay North in Warwick, RI. Drew is our mechanic and he had her ready to go, (as promised) on April 1. Drew and I took her over and Conn…
Baby Bear Cove Reprise
The reflections in the rocks remind us of totem polesEnjoying cocktails before dinnerMoser Island AnchorageWith all the shopping completed and the weather clearing, we decided not to waste the day, so about 1100 we cast off the lines and headed south d…
You Can Play, But You Need To Work Too!
Saturday June 19, 2010Today will be a fun, relaxing day. Even though we have projects planned, they will have to wait until later. Friends, Ed and Marsha arrived late morning. The weather was perfect, bright sunny sky and a light bree…
The Wonders of Traveling through Ontario’s Baie Fine
One of the most beautiful and satisfying trips in the North Channel is the trip up Baie Fin (pronounced Bay Fin) to the Pool. You would think you were traveling in a scandinavian fjord the way the quartz cliff rise so…
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Hurricane Preparations For The 2010 Season
Have you ever had the experience of sitting out a hurricane on your boat? Have you had to leave your boat and wait out a storm, wondering if it would survive? We have done both and neither are experiences we want to go through again. Sitting on board, …
Sunday June 20 back in the US
We ended up cutting our time short because of the uncertainty of the weather. There seem to be a lot of predictions of a bad summer weather wise. We have been watching the crossing windows for awhile and rather than take a chance by “staying too long a…
Sweet Charlotte
Thanks to all for the questions and comments left at our web site. I think I’ll post answers at the end of this entry. If you would like to post questions and comments for public viewing, please go directly to the journal and scroll down to…
The Outer Banks, Manteo NC – Roanoke Island
The Wright Brothers MonumentManteo Waterfront MarinaSteve & Teresa’s house – friends we visited in the Outer BanksBarn Swallows around the boat lines, Mama feeding babies Manteo, NC – Roanoke Island was the first English Colony, and that is wh…
Bear-ly Fun on Croker Island – North Channel, Canada
Canada’s North Channel is a magical boating paradise and for us Croker Island is one of its gems. The reason we like Croker Island so much is because it has a cove that provides an excellent, well protected, anchorage. From…
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