What a delightful scene to wake up to last Saturday morning, a line of birds on my bow rail. I just didn’t want them to poop, since we’d spent much time cleaning the boat! One of the highlights of the previous two days was watching all the birds and th…
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Off-season update – and are we trading Sea Spirit for a bigger model?
Sea Spirit, being unloaded, before we owned her
Sorry to have left some of you hanging after the last blog entry at the end of April. We greatly enjoyed the remainder of our spring cruising season in the Exumas. Sea Spirit is now back in Fort Laud…
From the Erie Canal to Lake Ontario
Sunday morning, June 12th, it was chilly and threatening rain, but we were anxious to be on our way through the first several locks of the Erie Canal, so at 7:35 a.m. we untied the dock lines and headed for Lock #2. This time, Ken secured a line a…
Fixin’ a crab dinner!
See those two “monster” crabs? (haha) Well, that was dinner tonight! Janet and I are now crab experts in the land of crabs. We caught em ourselves, boiled em, cleaned em, and relished em! You can have no more fun than that here in the waters of the Che…
No More Locks, Please!
We cruised from 6:00 this morning to 3:30 this afternoon and made it to Nickajack Marina, locally known as Hales Bar Marina and pronounced as Hells Bar Marina. One lock today which we’re sooo thankful that the tow and barge on our tail and the lo…
Our Adventures in Washington, D.C.
We stayed at the Capital Yacht Club for a week (well, we did stay an extra day because we needed an R&R day after all of our activities). The Yacht Club was very accommodating and we participated in several activities – happy hours, spaghetti Tue…
Crysler Park Marina, Morrisburg, Ontario
Linda enjoying the rideWayne and Ian as we travelled homeThe Pride of BaltimoreWe are home!!! Left Brockville this morning with Linda and Ian, quick trip down the river to the Iroquois Lock. Did see a tall ship, the Pride of Baltimore, that had just co…
Stormy in Guntersville AL
We tooled around Guntersville today in the courtesy car and saw many trees down from yesterday’s storm. Winds were reported at 60 mph. Had a great lunch at The Rock House and Vicki got a nice pedicure at the nails place in downtown Gun…
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A Crazy Weekend at the Waterfall
On Tuesday, June 14th, the Captain continued his boat cleaning projects while I got caught up on laundry. Late that afternoon we met with George & Rebecca to discuss boating and they took us to a new place ca…
Brockville Municipal Marina, Brockville, Ont
Went out for dinner with Linda and IanMet this boat in the channel todayWarm and sunny this morning; left Kingston marina and had an easy trip down to Ganonoque. Met Linda and Ian in Ganonoque, so nice to see them after being away so long. They joined …
