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Thursday 17 May, brother Tom dropped me off in Newark, near the train station and I made my way via PATH and Amtrak, back to Croton-on-Hudson.  Jubilee was not at the dock, as Dean and John (who met us when we came in) had taken the boat up-river a s…

12 May, Roger left the boat for a shuttle ride up to Philadelphia Airport where he met his family; they’re spending time with Karen’s family and showing off the grandkid.  Dean and I made an early morning departure from the Chesapeake City Dock and co…

So, kind of a little adventure today.  While I cruised up the Chesapeake, blissfully unaware of events unfolding 3000 miles away, Dorothy had the misfortune to lose her phone into Bodega Bay trying to juggle dogs and phone. Going into town to replace …

Yesterday MV Jubilee got underway out of Solomons MD, cruising up the Chesapeake Bay in headwinds gusting to 30 kts, resulting in a bouncy, hobby-horse kind of ride. We anchored overnight in the entrance to the Rhode River. (Continued…)

So, what’s been happening on the good ship DavidEllis? Things are falling apart; that’s what’s happening! Right before Christmas the isolation transformer (where the electrical shorepower enters the boat) shorted itself and a week later the inverter-…

Check the link below; apparantly someone attempted a 7-11 211PC (armed robbery) dressed in a Gumbi suit….. sigh (Continued…)

We’ve just returned from a whirlwind driving trip to Seattle for the annual workboat show. This is a boat show for tugs, fishboats, charter boats and such – boats very similar in size to ours, with much of the same equipment aboard. It’s a chan…

We’re settling into life in one place for awhile, and re-integrating back into our lives in Sonoma County (although I’m already twitching to be going again). Doctors, dentists, lab tests, new glasses, physical therapy… Jeez, send me back to SE A…

21 September Wed Well, in the last blog I wrote that we were going to leave Newport that afternoon, to try to stay in the benign weather bubble, ahead of really crappy weather coming in from north of us. We got underway about 1500 that afternoon; ca…

Our 0000 19 Sep departure from Port Angeles was under a clear sky, and partial moon. Against approximately 2’ chop in Juan de Fuca Strait, 9+ knots for the first couple hours (being carried by ebbing tide). Rounding Cape Flattery 0730hrs, in the fo…