We left early in the morning from Wingates to beat the bad weather that was headed our way. We dodged the rain several times and even tied up to the wewa dock during one squall. Made it back to the boat ramp and pulled her out and drove home. It was a …
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Bainbridge, Ga
We left Wingates early and headed for Bainbridge. It was a nice trip and we found the town dock to tie up to. We walked along the river and through this beautiful Live Oak park to the small downtown area. Had lunch at a chinese restaurant which was t…
Apalachicola River cruise to Bainbridge Ga
We left John’s on Sunday morning after a great breakfast from our host. Alan and I wanted to cruise up the river to Chattahoochee and lock through to Lake Seminole to the Flint River. We had a beautiful day for cruising and made good time. Saw many hou…
Apalachicola C-Brat gathering at John’s place on the River
Put the boat in at Apalachicola ramp and cruised over to Papa Joe’s for some lunch. After a great meal we cruised over to John’s for the C-Brat weekend of fun.
Ok, this got too hot.
This is the shore side end of our power cable that we used to power our air conditioning. It has obliviously gotten way too hot. The receptacle that it was plugged into was old and worn out and destroyed both of them. I had to cut back 10′ of cable bef…
The Rest of the Story
Yes we made it from Seattle to Tokyo…but there were some mechanical speed-bumps. Here is a partial list of malfunctions that occurred on the Grey Pearl during the GSSR.
Introduction – As can be expected on a long voyage there will be system…
Osaka, Japan…Great Siberian Sushi Run Mission Accomplished!
September 10th was our FINAL day of cruising for 2009. We had a short run, 30 miles up the busy Bay of Osaka on a gloriously sunny day. The boats are tied up at Ashiya Bellport Marina in Osaka, Japan. It’s a nice and very modern marina facility.
Som…
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…
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…
BACK HOME
We arrived safely and had a really great time on this trip to Wisconsin, and Lake Superior. We dropped off the car to Wayne and had the brakes fixed and was ready to go again. Scallop season is still opened so we took Zack and his friend Michael scallo…
