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There is not much happening on Lady Jane at the moment, mostly because of the weather.It’s that time of the year when things seem so damp and miserable.No boat action gives me the opportunity to blog about other stuff for a while.Here is our ‘tame’ rob…

Here Split 3 makes her way up the River Itchen, past Lady Jane, on a Friday evening.Split 3 is a regular visitor to these parts.This emphasises a big difference I’ve learned between coastal shipping in the US and shipping here – known as short sea I be…

Some time ago, when I was planning on getting rid of the wood from my deck, Rob suggested I float a skip across the river, fill it, then float it back again.I think you guys in the US call skips dumpsters? I’m not sure.At the time, I was taken with the…

I swear, in total I’ve spent more time on this toilet than almost any other single thing on the boat.It’s forever giving problems, and usually at the worst possible times.Captain Bob, who travelled with us a while on the Wanderbird, says he is going to…

Now all the travel is over, and I’ve had a chance to recover from the jet lag, you would expect things to be getting back to normal here.Not.It seems the weather has other ideas.Suddenly, over the weekend, it’s got really cold here – just on or below f…

For those of you who don’t know, I’m home again, at last.As a matter of interest, the LED I’ve been blogging about is still shining brightly!It’s been a very slow weekend for me, as I’ve always found travelling back from the US hard jet-lag wise. Conse…

Life is so strange, you could not make some of this stuff up!Here you see Will, aka Tugster, at work in one of his New York ‘offices’. This one has a canteen just a few doors away which served us a fine lunch.I’ve been following Tugster’s blog off and …

The Wanderbird was tied up at a place called Atlantic Basin, in New York.During the early morning on the day following our arrival, the Queen Mary 2 arrived just over the way from us.A few minutes walk provided the perfect photo opportunity, with the S…

Here we are on the Wanderbird, cruising down New York’s East River towards Atlantic Basin, where we will tie up alongside Cape Race.For those regular readers, I know this post is a little late. I can only blame Barry, the barman at a most unusual pub, …

Here’s the Wanderbird, neatly tucked in alongside a fishing wharf in Newport, Rhode Island.We got in fairly late last night, but not so late as to miss last orders at the Black Pearl, just a few hundred yards from where we were tied up.This mornings de…