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Key West, FL, United States ‐ Oct 13

Drove the rest of the way down to Key West, getting in at 2am due to some nasty accident traffic at Miami, and started unpacking!
Orlando, FL ‐ Oct 12

After a frantic Friday finishing winterizing the boat, we drove down to Orlando, our stopover with friends to hang out for a bit on our way to Key West, and do a day in Disney together. It was a super-hot-and-humid day in Disney, but still had a good time trying out some newer attractions and some older about-to-be-redone ones, and more importantly, hanging out with our peeps.
Quick Haul Out ‐ Oct 10

1.7 nm

To replace the leaking through hull, we drove a mile away to a haulout big enough for our boat. It turned out that the through hull actually separates into 3 pieces, and the middle piece was the only one leaking, so it was a 5 minute repair to swap out the important pieces of the through hull and be back in business. Now we're frantically packing the boat away for the winter...
Baltimore, MD ‐ Oct 7

23 nm

A week later, we had a nicely-painted hull, a new through hull, and no more hole through the bow where Hinckley screwed up a bow thruster tunnel 2 years ago. We cruised down with Inquest, who got hauled just before we got put back in, then cruised back on our boat with them. We then, later that night, found that one of our non-worked-on through-hulls was leaking slowly when I went to close it to winterize the A/C, so now we're frantically ordering a new through hull and getting a short haul la [...]
ter this week...

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Bay Bridge Marina, MD ‐ Sep 30

22.7 nm

We had an appointment at 1pm today to get hauled out, down just east of the Bay Bridge. So I kicked Hannah off the boat to drive the car down to meet me, then single-handed the boat down to the marina a few hours away. Fortunately, as I pulled in around 10am, they were already ready to haul me out, so I just drove right into the sling and we eventually got our fat boat pulled out of the water. The boat stays here for about a week getting the thruster hole from the Hinckley Stuart debacle fixe [...]
d and some other misc repairs/maintenance at the same time. We're up at an AirBnB in Baltimore for the week.

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Baltimore, MD ‐ Sep 28

51.4 nm

Woke up early again, but this time just to give ourselves time for our busy day: load up on fuel (since we burned it all off yesterday) at Bowley's Marina, which is a ~45 minute detour; get to Baltimore; and rent a car to drive down to Waldorf to pick up our car from my aunt/uncle. Picked up 760 gallons of diesel, got the car, had a lovely dinner with them, and got some basic errands done around the boat before chilling for the night.
Chesapeake City, MD ‐ Sep 27

177.1 nm

Biiiiig long day from before sunrise to after sunset, with pretty bad conditions. Inquest bailed early into Manasquan and took the NJICW to Atlantic City where they'll hole up for several days until the next vague weather window. One Eye Dog bailed into Atlantic City, also to hang out for a while. We soldiered on and made it all the way down the NJ coast and up the Delaware in one very long day.

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From New York to the Chesapeake

On the fateful day that the weather predicted was our one vague chance for another week, we set out at first light (~30 mins before dawn), and immediately conditions were pretty bad
Coney Island, NY ‐ Sep 26

30.7 nm

Weather for Friday has been solidifying into a "passable" (i.e. shitty conditions, but no longer dangerous) day for our big run down the NJ coast, after waiting for 11 days in port washington. To stage to get as close as possible to the NJ coast, today we came down the East River and grabbed a mooring at the Miramar YC on the north side of Coney Island. From here it's just a few miles out to Sandy Hook and our super-fun journey tomorrow.
Kansas City Wedding ‐ Sep 20

We took a quick weekend hop over to Kansas City, MO for the wedding of friends of ours. Got to hang out with friends and family and drink copious cocktails.

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Port Washington ‐ Sep 15

49.2 nm

With the weather this week being on-and-off questionable, the expectation of work being a complete mess all week, and having to fly out of JFK on Friday, we decided to take advantage of OK conditions and bomb all the way to Port Washington to set up on a mooring for the week.

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New Haven, CT ‐ Sep 12

10 nm

As we continue to head toward New York, Hannah wanted to stop in New Haven because they had multiple pole studios, and it was a spot we hadn't visited yet. So we got a mooring at the Pequonnock Yacht Club and we'll explore the city a bit for part of the weekend.

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New Haven

We'd never stopped at New Haven on our boating travels, and when I asked my parents and relatives about it, their answers were nearly identically "we brought the kids to the Peabody museum a lot as ki...
The Thimbles, CT ‐ Sep 11

20.9 nm

In the center of coastal CT is a small set of rocky islands just off shore called "The Thimbles". They're all full of houses, one per island for the most part, and cut off from the mainland. We find it a useful stopping point between NY/western CT and RI and have anchored here many times. With winds forecast to be from the SE, our anchor spot between two "strakes" of the islands should be nicely protected for the next day. It helps that it's a nice pretty spot as well.
Old Saybrook, CT ‐ Sep 10

17.9 nm

Another short morning hop. We've stayed in a tight mooring field here before, but this time the field was even tighter, and it looked like a nice calm day out in the open, so we took a risk and anchored along the CT river, as far off the channel as we could. Turned out to be a surprisingly calm day, with very few wakes. Russ and Jax tried the same mooring field and eventually came out and rafted to us on anchor.
New London, CT ‐ Sep 9

10.5 nm

Short morning hop over to New London, where we stopped on the same municipal pier as in the spring, but on calling the harbormaster, they're now on DockWA for $3.50 a foot for an annoying pier that we constantly adjust lines on, so we ended up anchoring just outside the mooring field for free. We have to be back in NYC for two weekends from now, so just slowly making progress toward that.
Stonington, CT ‐ Sep 8

32.1 nm

After a lovely time in Newport, we hopped over to get inside the protection of long island, with some wind for the next couple days, and us needing to get closer to New York to be safely set up for the Sept 20th weekend. The seas were a little spicy, and more or less straight on the nose, so we decided to duck into Stonington instead of going further today.

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Newport, RI ‐ Sep 4

36.4 nm

Breaking up the trip to Newport, since we had morning meetings, we made a shorter leg over to Cuttyhunk and dropped anchor just east of the channel. The parents spent a few hours touring the island while we worked. In the afternoon we all decided to just get back under way and head to Newport a day early, since the gathering forecasts for Thursday were starting to look less promising and the weather today was gorgeous. We managed to get a mooring a day early and had a chill evening in.
Wood's Hole, MA ‐ Sep 2

69.4 nm

We took advantage of the Labor Day holiday to make a break for Buzzard's Bay. We wanted to check out the little town of Wood's Hole for future trips in the region, so we stopped there for the night and ended up staying 2 days!

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Boston, MA ‐ Aug 28

20.2 nm

We woke up at dawn to aim for getting through the one lock in time for the 9:10am bridge opening that lets us into the Charles River, where we're setting up at the Charlesgate Yacht Club for the weekend. Hannah's parents are flying out tomorrow to join us for the next week as well.

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Salem, MA ‐ Aug 27

19.8 nm

We took a much shorter morning hop over to Salem to rejoin Inquest and kill one more day before heading to Boston. We went ashore in the evening and had a great meal at a combined Italian/Asian fusion restaurant, where I ate both pizza and ramen, both of which were awesome.
Folly Cove, MA ‐ Aug 26

66.9 nm

Upon landing, we immediately got under way to head south, trying to hit a narrow weather window to get down to Boston. We aimed for Isles of Shoals for the night, but the moorings were completely full when we arrived, so we hauled ass down to Folly Cove, the closest spot of refuge, and carefully set anchor amongst a bunch of lobster pots for the night.
Falmouth, ME

Flew back from San Jose on a fun redeye that had a 4 hour layover in ATL. Not a great flight arrangement, but c'est la vie.
San Jose, CA ‐ Aug 25

After the wedding, we headed down to San Jose to visit Hannah's brother for the day before flying back. Wandered around San Jose in the sun together, ate and drank a bunch of food, and got another escape room all-time record (by 1 second!).
Alameda, CA ‐ Aug 24

We flew out to Oakland (from Portland, ME) for my cousin's wedding in Alameda, which, as expected, was a mini family reunion.
Handy Boat, Falmouth, ME ‐ Aug 21

27.4 nm

Timing the one hole in the weather for the week, we set out at dawn to get back over near Portland for our trip to a wedding this weekend. We've set up on a mooring at Handy Boat, which is an easy taxiride away from the airport.
Southport, ME ‐ Aug 18

3.2 nm

As the hurricane headed up the east coast, we were starting to get fetch (waves) from the south heading straight up the channel and making it fairly uncomfortable next to Boothbay, so we ducked around the corner, back through the bridge, to a protected anchorage for the next several days while this all blew over. It was basically rainy and foggy and cold the entire time here -- we did not even attempt to leave the boats.
Boothbay, ME ‐ Aug 16

7 nm

We passed through Hell Gate, timed the bridge well that opens on the hour and half hour, and set up on anchor in the harbor at Booth Bay, in roughly our usual spot, with plenty of time before work started. We dropped ~250ft of chain since we were in ~40 ft of water, and Inquest rafted off us.

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Booth Bay, ME
Hockomock Bay, ME ‐ Aug 14

3.9 nm

We decided to break up our trip over to Booth Bay with a stop anchoring on this lake/river confluence. It's been inordinately peaceful and pretty here, so we've decided to stay a second night and we'll head to Booth Bay on Friday.
Bath, ME ‐ Aug 12

33.1 nm

To avoid a lot of current coming down the Kennebec River, we left midday to head over to Bath, slowly working our way toward Booth Bay as the furthest north/east extent of our summer travel this year. We ended up staying on the town dock for free for the two nights we were here.

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Bath, ME

We headed over to Bath on Monday afternoon, waiting until midday to avoid a bunch of current down the Kennebec River that was there earlier in the day. We always pass by Fort Gorges, an old fort just...
Portland, ME ‐ Aug 9

3.5 nm

Made the short hop over to Sunset Marina in South Portland (across the river from Portland proper). Unlike South Port Marine, whose dockmaster is a terrifyingly shitty human being, the owners here are super nice and helpful. Unfortunately, it's also very close to the mouth of the bay, so we're getting rocked pretty hard, but we'll deal. We're getting the remnants of the tropical storm passing through over the next 18 hours, so it's gonna be a moist night...

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Concerts and Beer in Portland

After arriving at the marina fairly early on Friday, we worked for the day as usual, and then Sara joined us for the weekend! Friday night we were super adventurous and went all the way to the restaur...
Cow Island, ME ‐ Aug 8

17.8 nm

Our last larger hop for a bit, we headed up to just east of Portland to kill a day before we go into an expensive marina for the weekend. There's private mooring balls here that the ActiveCaptain reviews say you can just grab, but I'm dubious of that, and all of the good-position balls were taken, so we just dropped anchor safely away from the mooring balls in 35 ft of water.
Biddeford, ME ‐ Aug 7

32.1 nm

Another early morning jaunt up, but this time in perfectly clear/calm conditions, fortunately. Grabbed a mooring with the Biddeford Pool Yacht Club.

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Slowly Recovering

Hannah and I have been on the mend this week, slowly both recovering from COVID, and ending up doing very early hops before work to get up to Portland for this weekend. Hannah started a few days after...
Isles of Shoals, NH ‐ Aug 6

28.2 nm

We made what turned out to be a questionable decision to trust the weather report and head out from Gloucester early this morning to our usual stopover on this leg: the Isles of Shoals, a small but pretty island complex ~10m offshore from Portsmouth, NH that has a protected harbor and free mooringballs. The seas turned out to be ~4@4 for much of the ride, so we got the shit kicked out of us for a couple hours before we made it into the harbor and got on a mooring to work for the day. Woopsie.
Gloucester, MA ‐ Aug 4

26.2 nm

We filled up with water and did a quick grocery shop in Scituate and headed over to Gloucester for a Sunday afternoon/evening. We took the launch into town and had a lovely dinner at Oak to Ember, where we sat outside and had a gorgeous sunset. We'll be making our way towards Portland this week.

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Scituate Blessing of the Fleet Parade ‐ Aug 2

0.2 nm

As we were nestled in for the night, we started hearing more and more music and activity outside, and eventually realized that there was a Blessing of the Fleet lighted boat parade just starting, with tons of boats in the harbor tied up to each other to watch the parade. So we put on some colored lights and joined the festivities!
Seattle Trip ‐ Jul 28

Hannah and I split up for the weekend to visit different sets of friends. I flew to Seattle and she headed to New York, and both ended up with ... adventures.

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Whirlwind Seattle Tour + Steroids Adventure

This story actually begins several weeks ago, when I had another bout of my magical no-seeming-cause lower back pain, this time turning into some fun sciatica. I ended up going to urgent care after it...
Scituate, MA ‐ Jul 22

28.1 nm

An entirely uneventful calm crossing over from Provincetown to Scituate. We're on moorings here working for a few days before flying to various social trips for a long weekend.
Provincetown, MA ‐ Jul 20

48.6 nm

Perfect conditions for the transit -- timed the tides well for getting through the cape cod canal, virtually flat seas, and wispy clouds.

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Provincetown

After a generally-meh week in Martha's Vineyard, we took advantage of a weather window and headed up to Provincetown for the weekend to explore. It turns out to be a great little town, full of charact...
Day 1884 ‐ Jul 19
Day 1883 ‐ Jul 18
Vineyard Haven, MA, United States ‐ Jul 17

9.6 nm

Quick morning trip over from Edgartown to Vineyard Haven before work, worked from the harbor for the day. We took the launch in after work and wandered around the shops for a bit, then ate a mediocre Sushi dinner and got ice cream for dessert. The weather is pretty unbearably hot+humid right now, so our energy levels are pretty low. A/C is being used regularly on the boat this week, and we're surviving on regular ice cream.

Martha's Vineyard Recap - "Meh"

We spent another couple days in Vineyard Haven before leaving, but it turns out that neither of us took any pictures, and it's probably because it really wasn't very memorable. While smaller and less...
Back to Edgartown Moorings ‐ Jul 15

0.9 nm

After 1 day out on anchor, our next reservation came up and we moved back into the inner harbor for a couple more days. We mostly ate lots of ice cream and hung out a bit in the evenings, but nothing post-worthy.
Edgartown Anchorage ‐ Jul 14

0.8 nm

When we contacted the Harbormaster this morning, they didn't have a mooring for us to extend for a day, so we had to move out to the anchorage in the outer harbor.

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Martha's Vineyard Exploration

Martha's Vineyard Exploration

We ended up trying out the escape room, and... it was likely the worst escape room we've ever done. It was full of semi-broken gizmos, had absolutely no continuity, and generally didn't make a lot of...
Edgartown, MA ‐ Jul 13

14.5 nm

Arriving at Martha's Vineyard

The weather this summer has mostly been unusually dreary. New England summers are usually periods of nice weather intermixed with serious storms, but so far this late-spring/early-summer weather has b...
Hadley Harbor, MA ‐ Jul 12

13.1 nm

Hadley Harbor

As suspected, I called the shop at 8am today and they said maybe Monday. I'm not sure which part of "we're leaving Saturday" that I've told them every day this week was Greek to them, but here we are....
Fairhaven, MA ‐ Jul 11

Stuck in Fairhaven/New Bedford

We've been more-or-less stuck in this harbor all week. The weather has been fairly dreadful, as predicted, but we're really here because there's the one Spectra watermaker certified repair shop in the...
Exploring New Bedford/Fairhaven ‐ Jul 8

Later in the evening, it was becoming clear that my injured back wasn't getting any better, and I've been having pretty bad sciatic pain for a week now, so we headed over to urgent care to get checked out. They confirmed sciatic pain and prescribed me a stack of anti inflammatories to take for 5 days and then come back if it still wasn't getting better. We headed over to the pharmacy to pick them up, then had a lovely dinner at Cork Wine and Tapas in downtown New Bedford.
New Bedford, MA

46.6 nm

Sprint to New Bedford/Fairhaven

Due to a combination of work schedules and upcoming bad weather, we ended up having to accelerate our plans a bit and woke up at dawn this morning to head over to New Bedford, where there's a Spectra-...
Providence, RI ‐ Jul 7

0.6 nm

Weather was predicted to be much better today, and it was. We'd planned a "big" day in Providence. Inquest had figured out that it was dinghy-navigable all the way up to a park right next to downtown, which seemed far more fun than scooting the several miles back and forth, so we opted for that approach. It was a beautiful day, and we cruised into the city with the scooters, finding a Sunday market going just as we arrived at the wall where we'd leave the dinghies. We tooled around, sampling [...]
a couple breweries, got awesome tacos for lunch, and did an escape room at a shop where the owner was the game master for the day and had been building escape rooms for almost 10 years. We missed the all-time record for the 6-year-old room we did by a hair under 3 minutes, alas. We're getting good at these things -- practice makes permanent. We had an awkward/funny issue when we were crossing the bridge nearby the dinghies, headed to lunch, when we noticed the dinghies both hanging in the air by their lines. Oh, right -- tides are a thing, even on "rivers". Oops. We'll figure all this stuff out someday... Fun day in the city though -- we'd definitely come back at a later time. It's big enough that there's plenty of food/drink/activities, but small enough that it's easy to get around, even with scooters. We also pumped out and filled up with water on the dock of the Edgewood Yacht Club, where we were staying. Our watermaker is on the fritz, so every run is questionable as to whether it'll crap out. We're headed to New Bedford this week to get it serviced, since it requires some proprietary scanner tools, of course...

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Providence, RI ‐ Jul 6

17.2 nm

We headed over to a mooring field just south of Providence, RI, arriving just after noon. It was a dreary morning, and we waited for the rain to stop before heading ashore to chuck garbage and pick up packages. Inquest and us headed into town for the afternoon+evening to make our usual rotation of a new place -- breweries and escape rooms. We stopped at Long Live Brewing, which had a hilarious collection of 20ish IPAs, 3 heavy imperial stouts, and not much else. Russ, being an IPA lover, was [...]
in heaven, and the rest of us drank combinations of 10-13% sugary motor oil/beer. From there we hit up the highest rated escape room place within scooting distance, and escaped fairly handily at around 37 minutes in. From there, we got dinner at another surprisingly awesome fortuitous choice, a Korean restaurant, before heading back to the boats for the night. Tomorrow should be sunnier to do a larger exploration of the city.
Fall River, MA ‐ Jul 5

The 5th was a somewhat-work-day, but we ended up taking off early to go sample some local breweries, then fortuitously found an amazing Portuguese restaurant for dinner that we took copious leftovers home from. On the way back, Jax wanted to check out the carousel that's right at the edge of the mooring field. We went inside and there was no one waiting or anything, so we paid for a quick session on the carousel for just the four of us. Highly entertaining 3 minutes.
Fall River, MA ‐ Jul 4

4.7 nm

We headed over to Fall River after sleeping in, where we had a reservation on their mooring balls for the 4th of July (Thursday) through Saturday. It's a neat spot, that we've been to once before, because there's a museum of WW2 warships in the water here, and the mooring field is actually protected by the USS Massachusetts, a South Dakota-class fast-attack battleship built in the late 30s. There's also a cruiser and a submarine from the same era, all of which you can tour. Given that it was [...]
the 4th, we didn't even go ashore since everything was closed, so Inquest and us shared a dinner, watched fireworks, and went to bed. The fireworks were a good show, though, for a tiny town.

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Kickemuit River Fireworks ‐ Jul 3

After working all day as normal, with pretty limited waves, as night fell we were greeted by what felt like every other house around the entire lake-like river mouth launching fireworks for a couple hours. At one point, a spot on the shore burst into flames and we assumed it had to be a mistake, but after grabbing the binoculars, we figured out it was an intentional (huge) bonfire. Fun night of watching exploding things all evening.

July 3rd 2024 fireworks on the Kickemuit River
Kickamuit River ‐ Jul 2

6.5 nm

Not much to talk about today. We moved around the corner to a more-protected anchorage so life would be a little less exciting, waiting for the 4th to come when we'll head over to Fall River. So far, a nice pretty and trafficked river/lake. My back is still in bad shape so not sure when I'm gonna be on the move again.
Bristol, RI ‐ Jul 1

11.8 nm

We left Newport fairly early to head up towards what was going to hopefully be a quaint protected anchorage, but as we neared it we found the bay completely full of mooring balls, as some of the ActiveCaptain reviews had warned. We ended up calling an audible and setting up on anchor just outside of Bristol, where Inquest pumped out and then rafted alongside us for the day. I managed to somehow throw my back out and spent much of the day lying down in various places, hoping that the pain will [...]
someday stop...
Newport Dinner ‐ Jun 30

Weather was predicted to be miserable, so we decided to get reservations for the 6 of us (us, Inquest, No Rush) to get dinner at the Vanderbilt hotel and restaurant. We got into the dinghy at about 3:40pm, and 2 minutes later the sky opened up and rained+hailed on us while we frantically threw on our rain clothes and picked up Russ/Jax to go to shore. We had reserved a Lyft the night before, so he was there a little early to pick our wet crew up and take us over to Newport. We had a lovely ev [...]
ening drying out with gin and tonics on No Rush, then headed up the hill a bit for an awesome dinner, and then Ubered back to the boats uneventfully -- the skies had given up all their moisture earlier.
Day in Newport ‐ Jun 29

With good weather for the day, we dinghied across the straight to park at the public dinghy dock, promptly finding that the dinghy dock had a 25hp motor limit (!?!?) and went to a park dinghy dock just around the corner. I had to make a run out to Bank of America, so I brought a scooter over and made a run ~4.5 miles out to it. They unfortunately only had one of the two things they were supposed to have been shipped, so I went back to downtown. Upon arriving at the cafe where people were wait [...]
ing, BoA called back and said the other thing just arrived, so I scooted back out, grabbed the thing, and then ubered back to downtown since the scooter ran out of battery. Good start to the day. From there, Hannah, Jax, and I had an excellent manipedi, and then we met up with Russ and friends from No Rush, the boat we cruised with last year up the Champlain area. We got a late lunch, then decided to do an impromptu escape room, which we promptly destroyed their time record on, and then went and got beer at the Rejects brewery. I developed a massive headache, then we headed back to the boats, I took a pile of medicine and slept from 8-11pm, and then coded until 5am when I got tired again. Weird but fun day, on balance.
Jamestown/Newport, RI ‐ Jun 28

8.6 nm

Hannah and I had pretty solid and incompatible schedules today, so we woke up early to head over to the mooring field at Clark Boat Yard in front of Jamestown (little town on an island across the water from Newport). Newport was all booked up for the time period around the 4th of July, but fortunately, Jamestown had some openings, so we decided to head here for the weekend before the 4th. We had a pretty uneventful cruise, setup on a ball, and then got waked all day long by boats throwing big [...]
wakes in the channel in front of Newport. I recently bought a new webcam that works on a gimbal, not thinking about what that would mean for the boat. So it was an entertaining day of getting people on Zoom calls seasick watching me float around the screen as the gimbal tried to keep things level, from its perspective...
Tea and Errands ‐ Jun 27

When we couldn't get into the tea house as a drop-in, we made a reservation for Thursday afternoon, and eventually the day arrived! We took some time off for a late lunch and dinghied into town with Russ and Jax to ... have afternoon English Tea. The tea house was fun and quaint, the food and tea were excellent, and we had a blast. I then scooted over to the Walgreens a couple miles away to grab a prescription and send off a package of a boat part that I'd sold to someone, and we headed back [...]
to the boat to finish up the day of work. Delightful little hookey.
Mexican and Concert ‐ Jun 25

After not doing much Monday, we went out to dinner after work to the Mexican place in town, which was pretty good (with excellent margaritas), and then dinghied back to the boat. Upon arriving at the boat, we noticed dozens of boats around us, and music playing from shore. Apparently there's a Tuesday night concert series on the beach we're anchored off all summer, with a live cover band playing for a couple hours. We dinghied over and listened for a bit before some packages got delivered on [...]
shore we had to go pick up again. But it was a fun random diversion.
Wickford, RI ‐ Jun 23

With the rains gone and it now just being very windy, we headed ashore to make the best of our Sunday. Our plan was a brewery and grocery shopping and whatever else we ran across. As we headed to the brewery, we saw a "tea house" that looked cute to remember for later, and almost to the brewery we saw a sign for "Smith Castle", which we then turned off to investigate. It turned out to just be an older house that was decked out in period-accurate furniture and such, which was far less exciting [...]
than a castle, so we moved on to the brewery. The brewery also turned out to be disappointing -- despite having 7 IPA/APAs on tap of their 10 beers, Russ was unimpressed, and we were unimpressed with the non-PAs. We enjoyed some fried pickles, then headed over for grocery shopping. On the way back, we checked out the tea house, to find out that they're reservation-only, and have 2 seatings a day, which we had missed. We sulked off to the nearest coffee shop to get drinks and cookies instead, then headed back to the boats for the evening, with another evening storm planned (which poured like crazy for a bit).
Wickford, RI ‐ Jun 22

38 nm

We'd planned on spending the weekend in Mystic and heading over to Stonington on Sunday afternoon, but weather went to hell in a hurry and we ended up needing to leave midday Saturday before winds kicked up Saturday evening and stayed high for almost a full week afterward. We had pre-planned massages for the morning, which we went in to do, but then immediately headed back to the boats and pulled out. We stopped at Galilee Fuel, the cheapest fuel in the northeast, to top off both of our tanks, [...]
and then continued on to Wickford, which we figured was a decent stop for several days to wait out the weather. The storm hit us, fortunately just with a lot of rain and not much wind, about 20 minutes out from the anchorage, and just as Inquest was tying to a mooring ball (they're small enough to fit on the town moorings). It rained on and off the rest of the evening, so we stayed on the boats all night.
Mystic, CT ‐ Jun 21

After work, we had a reservation to do an escape room in town, which turned out to be pretty good, though we beat it pretty soundly, only needing a clue for a key that was hiding literally "in plain sight" in a crevice of a wall. Our plan was to go into town for dinner afterwards, but a storm came in early, and as we were scooting back, it started pouring. Hannah and I decided to make lemonade and peeled off toward the tourist district and jumped into a restaurant to wait it out. Inquest deci [...]
ded to just book it for the boats, and ended up taking a Lyft back to stay dry. By the time we finished our dinner, the rain had stopped and we headed back in peace.
Mystic, CT ‐ Jun 19

8.4 nm

After a few days in New London, we got to the Juneteenth holiday when Hannah and I are off work, and went to our primary target: the Submarine Force Library+Museum in Groton. Three of us scootered over (and one ubered), which involved going through a narrow 3 foot wide "multi-use path" down the side of I-95, which was a little sketchy, but mostly just uncomfortable with the concrete slab breaks. The museum itself was awesome -- tons of good content from the first submarines (civil war) through [...]
to nearly present-day, and included a fantastic 45 minute video that really went through the history of submarine warfare -- good and bad. Strongly recommend this museum to anyone. We then headed back to the boats and cruised over to a yacht club just outside Mystic. We usually stay at the museum dock, but it's expensive, and we wanted to spend a few days here, so we ended up finding the Mason Island Yacht Club with affordable moorings, and a short 2 mile scooter ride into town. They turned out to be a great little club to stay with and we'll definitely come back. We scooted to north of downtown to go to a escape room place, which ended up going from several availabilities to totally full in the 20 minute scooter ride, so we moved on to a brewery nearby that had a bunch of great beers on tap. We rounded out the evening going into downtown and eating at an italian place that was quite tasty. After heading back to the boats for the evening, I tried to start chopping up a 5/16" thick stainless steel plate and dulled a bunch of my drill bits and cutting blades before giving up for the night, so that was fun. Hanging out here through Sunday, then on to Stonington!

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New London, CT ‐ Jun 16

28.4 nm

In the morning we headed back down the CT river, stopping at Essex to pump out and add some fresh water (which was so slow we gave up at 80% tanks). We had an uneventful crossing over to the Thames River, where we stopped at the first town -- New London. We were planning on grabbing a mooring or anchoring, but the municipal pier turned out to be free, so we docked up there. It's a fixed pier with just pilings, and ferries make the bay a rocking/rolling mess, but the price was right. We immed [...]
iately went out and got lunch and beer at the first place we saw, which had 50 beers on top and mediocre food. After we rolled out of there, we walked 30 mins down to Fort Trumbell, a revolutionary-era fort, and furthered our knowledge of immediately-outdated military technology. We then wandered back to the boats, and a live band was setting up literally feet from the boat. They played for hours, all kinds of fun random covers over 50+ years of music. I ended up coding for hours while being serenaded and Hannah exercised. It was a lovely end to the weekend.

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Haddam, CT ‐ Jun 15

7.7 nm

This turned out to be a super-packed day. We were all planning to head back into Essex to check out the Connecticut River Museum in the morning, but in one of the every-6-hour current flips, our anchor fouled itself and our raft went for a ride headed downstream. The alarms immediately told us before anything bad happened, but we had to separate and re-anchor real fast, which spooked us a bit. Hannah and Jax ended up staying on the boats while Russ and I went to tour the museum. It was good [...]
for an hour's learning. We then headed an hour upriver to just south of Goodspeed Landing. We had two objectives today: Gillette Castle and the Goodspeed Opera House. After chilling for a bit, we dinghied down to the shore in front of the castle, where we left the dinghy on a bungee anchor and hiked up the hill to the castle. Upon arrival, we found out that unfortunately reservations are required and all tours had sold out for the day. We took some cool pictures and then wandered back to the dinghy and returned to the raft. We chilled for the afternoon on a gorgeous day, ate dinner outside in our cockpit, and eventually dressed up to dinghy over to the opera house to watch South Pacific. The play turned out to have an excellent cast, great (tiny) orchestra, and the opera house was full of old-time character and was a pretty intimate theater. Everyone enjoyed themselves and the experience greatly exceeded expectations for all. Thus concludes our CT River tour -- in the morning we head back out and then east to New London.

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Hanging out around Essex ‐ Jun 14

We mostly hung out on the boats for the next couple days. Bridgerton came out with its new batch of episodes which Hannah spent most of Thursday watching repeatedly. We went into town on Friday night to hit up The Griswold Inn, an old inn and pub from the revolutionary war, which had decent food and mediocre drinks. Nothing to write home about except the lady playing Billy Joel piano adaptations all night but never finishing one song.
Essex, CT ‐ Jun 12

5.5 nm

We moved a short bit up the river this morning to Essex, where we were promptly told that they don't allow catamarans in the harbor. That's a new one to us. Fortunately, there's a nice anchorage right across the channel from the harbor, with a better price tag, so we plopped down there and the anchor immediately set hard without even a whimper, and Inquest rafted alongside us. After a day of work, we dinghied into town for a dinner at the Essex Yacht Club, which turned out to be excellent -- [...]
great view, great food, excellent wine, all for the most reasonable prices we've seen since the Chesapeake. Helps to be a member of a nationally-recognized yacht club to get reciprocal privileges! We'll probably be here for 2 days, flipping back and forth with the tides, before we head further north.
Old Saybrook, CT ‐ Jun 11

22 nm

Another short-ish morning hop back across the sound up to Old Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut River. We're on mooring balls a little alarmingly close to each other, but they're free and the bay is almost eerily quiet, so who are we to complain. We're going to spend the next few days wandering up the CT river before moving on to the Thames River.
Mattituck, NY ‐ Jun 10

27.2 nm

We took an early morning hop over to Mattituck, which we'd been told to check out. The entrance is a small rock-lined gap in the shoreline that immediately gets quite shallow, and you run through a narrow channel for a mile or so back into a small anchorage. We were also entering at basically low tide. I was glad to be following a fishing boat through it to know I had a safe-enough line, for the most part. The anchorage is in Navionics as having plenty of room for 6-8 boats, but they must be [...]
thinking very small boats that don't have enough anchor scope. Just our one boat on a questionably-small amount of scope is occupying a significant portion of the small marked anchorage zone. But the anchor held well and we've had winds pushing us to the south all day, and it's a pretty little anchorage, so we'll still call it a success.

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Port Jefferson, NY ‐ Jun 9

18.7 nm

We had a rainy-but-leisurely morning crossing over to Port Jefferson to spend a chill Sunday. As we arrived we saw a farmer's market up on the shore, adding to the events. We'd also found an escape room place that looked good a 5 mile scooter trip out of town. I'd managed to fix the display on the rain-broken scooter late the previous night and all seemed good. We took the scooters on the launch to shore, bought some stuff from the farmers market, got a lovely lunch in a local restaurant, an [...]
d then scooted the 5.5 miles down back roads to the escape room place. We noticed the rain-damaged scooter dropping battery quickly, but we made it there and ended up doing two escape rooms (they were good rooms but very traditional puzzle->code->lock rooms). Scooting back, the damaged scooter ran out of battery with a couple miles to go, and I managed to use the other scooter to help push the damaged scooter enough to get us back to town. We got some sweets from a massive local sweet shop and headed back to the boat for a lovely sunset dinner with Inquest.

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Norwalk, CT ‐ Jun 8

21.9 nm

My aunt and uncle live in Rowayton, CT, so we made our standard pilgrimmage to the Norwalk Yacht Club to grab a mooring ball and come ashore to do some errands and spend the evening hanging out. We refilled the CO2 canister that had been leaking and emptying way too fast, and did our usual stop at Stew Leonards, an Ikea-pathway-style grocery store. We found that I'd damaged one scooter in the downpour journey on Thursday, and then the other scooter we rapidly grabbed had a flat tire and broken [...]
fender that needed fixing. So we went from 4 scooters to 2 in a day, and need to start sorting out fixing them...
Evening in Port Washington ‐ Jun 6

2.5 nm

After work, Inquest joined us for a small night out, going to a great Indian restaurant, Diwan, followed up with a walk up the hill to Smashd, an ice cream sandwich shop that was decent but not as good as advertised. Ah well, ice cream is still ice cream.
BaseCap Dinner

30.2 nm

After a day of work, I took multi-modal transport -- dinghied to shore, then scootered down to Manhasset, then trained into the city -- to pick up deliveries at an Amazon locker and a prescription from Walgreens and then get dinner with Hannah's work leadership couples. AccuWeather predicted rain incorrectly, however, and it turned into a torrential downpour once I got half way to shore on the dinghy, and stayed that way all the way to getting on the train. A fun dinner in the city in the sun [...]
was followed by a reverse commute the way I came, and, of course, the torrential rain restarted just as the train pulled into the Manhasset stop. Half way home, the scooter battery ran out (scooting through inches of water on the road probably wasn't great for it) and I had to Uber the rest of the way back to Port Washington, where Hannah had trained the rest of the way and picked up the dinghy to meet me. When we got back to the boat, the generator wouldn't start so I had to debug the fuel system for a while before we could get charged back up after a day of limited solar, at which point it was time for rest and sleep.
Port Washington, NY ‐ Jun 5

31.6 nm

To get some progress under our belts, this afternoon we finally departed Great Kills and boated through NYC, up the East River, and grabbed a mooring at Port Washington, where we get one night of free mooring, and will spend another couple days here. Hannah is commuting into the city most days to do some leadership planning, so we need to stay within a train ride of Manhattan through the end of this week.
20-Sided Tavern ‐ May 27

After a lazy morning and an afternoon of projects, we headed into the city for dinner and saw a fun off-broadway improv show about Dungeons and Dragons called The Twenty-Sided Tavern.
Great Kills ‐ May 26

82.2 nm

We finished off our delightfully-uneventful pilgrimage with what started out as a gorgeous day, then had some fog up until we got into the New York bay, but ended up getting on a mooring in Great Kills and having a nice dinner ashore.

San Francisco, Erie Canal, and Mexico/NJ

We had organized to visit Matthew in San Jose at the end of September, and though our original plan was to fly out of Albany, we instead flew once more out of Syracuse. We had an amazing weekend visit...
Atlantic City ‐ May 25

37.8 nm

Since we'd taken a bunch of miles out of the first day by heading to the Sassafras, today ended up being a short hop up to Atlantic City, where we spent the night having a fabulous dinner at Nobu with Russ+Jax, and then Hannah and I caught a fun circus show in the late evening before heading to bed.
Cape May ‐ May 24

86.9 nm

We started the day by filling entirely up with diesel at Delaware City Marina as they opened, then had a long day of fighting the current to get down to an anchorage in Cape May to spend the night.
Sassafras River ‐ May 23

31.2 nm

Russ and Jax called an audible and ended up leaving Baltimore midday Thursday instead of the planned Friday, and headed over to anchor on the Sassafras River, just west of the C+D canal. We joined them after work as night fell, for a good shakedown cruise.
Sea Trial ‐ Apr 24

4.9 nm

After several weeks of maintenance work being done on the engines, we went out for a quick sea trial as the sun went down. Everything went well, and we're ready for the season!
Driving to Baltimore ‐ Apr 13
Driving to Orlando ‐ Apr 10

We started our seasonal pilgrimage north with a drive up to our friends' place in Winter Garden to spend a few days hanging out and Disney-ing before heading up to Baltimore. An uneventful drive.
Baltimore ‐ Jan 18

After getting on and off temperature warnings from the boat's battery compartment for the last month, it looked like the cold snap this week was going to be a major issue, so I grabbed a last-minute plane ticket and headed up to Baltimore to try to install some new heaters. I, of course, arrive in the middle of a snowstorm -- the marina's frozen over and there's 4-6 inches of snow on the ground. I quickly learn that the heaters I bought didn't come with the required specific type of double-sid [...]
ed adhesive on them, so I ordered it from Amazon with same-day delivery, and then was lied to for 6 hours straight by Amazon reps who said it was out for delivery and almost there, and then at 10pm told me that, in fact, it hadn't shipped yet. In the end, I think I found out that the real problem was actually a bad temperature sensor in the battery bay, so I put a more-calibrated one in place (that I can remote monitor), and disabled the low-temperature cutout on the Victron equipment. So I'll monitor it by hand for the rest of the winter, and see if I need to come back up for round 2.
Key West International Airport ‐ Oct 15, 2023

After putting in several days of frantic boat maintenance and winterizing work, and ending up buying a slip in Anchorage Marina, we flew down to our Key West house for the winter. Our plan immediately went to hell when we discovered you can only check one bag each to KW, due to the short runway, and ended up having to change our tickets to Miami. Several delayed flights and further schedule changes later, we flew from BWI, through JFK, to MIA, arriving after midnight, and rented a car to drive [...]
to KW, getting into the house around 4am. In the morning, I un-disabled the car and found that a critter of some sort had carefully stored a ton of seed pods in the engine bay, which I had to dutifully remove and throw on the ground. But I was joined by a lizard on the windshield for our first car trip of the season, so it was ok.

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Baltimore ‐ Oct 5, 2023

31.6 nm

After the long day yesterday, it was only another 4-ish hours to Baltimore, so we slept in today and Jax cooked up a great pancake breakfast for us all. After that, we got under way and meandered our way over to Baltimore, in yet another day of pristine weather conditions, where we nestled into familiar spots at Anchorage Marina. Baltimore was 80 degrees today, so we met up with some other Endeavour owners, Steve and Debbie, and all got beer from the taproom around the corner and caught up on [...]
each other's summer adventures -- they had done Maine this year for the first time, which we'd done last year, so we had lots of overlap. We then walked over to Dangerously Delicious Pies, a favorite of all of ours', for dinner. Hannah still doesn't get back until later tomorrow night, so I spent part of the rest of the day starting to get the boat ready for the winter -- finishing tidying up the upstairs and sorting out window covers. The rest of the evening will be spent working on some BoatKit projects.
Sassafras River ‐ Oct 4, 2023

115.7 nm

With good conditions predicted, both weather and tides, last night we enacted an ambitious plan to wake up at dawn and go to nearly dusk today, stopping in Chesapeake City. We ended up going even further, all the way to the Sassafras River. We had amazing conditions on the open ocean, and then utterly perfect flat seas on the Delaware River, with a 1-2kt current push the _entire_ way up, then a 3kt current push the _entire_ way down the C+D canal. So we called an audible and kept going all th [...]
e way to about 10 mins past sunset to anchor out of the worst of the negative morning current, and where we can sleep in tomorrow and gently cruise into Baltimore in the afternoon, finishing the journey. There's really not much more to say -- it was a long, boring journey, and that's the best kind of long-distance open-water single-manned cruising journey.

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Atlantic City ‐ Oct 3, 2023

82.3 nm

The plan went off without a hitch -- threw off the mooring at 7am, pulled into Atlantic City just after 5pm, no issues. The weather was grand -- sunny and a light breeze coming from the shore -- and the waves were, while not glass, about as good as could be hoped for. Predominant waves were slow-period swells out of the west, but almost never directly on the beam, and some light chop came up later in the day as we rounded Barnegat. But I was able to get a bunch of coding done while single-han [...]
ding the boat. The Atlantic City marina was completely full, so we just ended up anchoring together in a protected anchorage called Brigantine, through a super-sketchball shallow passage that had 1ft under the keel for a significant part of it. We made dinner together, and will hit the hay early, ready for an even longer day tomorrow!

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New Jersey Coast Calm Day
Great Kills ‐ Oct 1, 2023

44.6 nm

We tried to take advantage of the limited morning friendly tide by leaving just after dawn, but it didn't get us too far, and fought the current much of the way to Great Kills. Even though it was a Sunday, New York harbor was still a total mess of rental sailboats not paying attention to anything. We made our way down through the harbor to Great Kills, where we got their last large-boat mooring ball, then had a great dinner at an Italian place that Russ+Jax found. In the morning, we send Hann [...]
ah off to the airport on a trip, and hopefully head down the New Jersey coast buddy boating with Inquest later this week.
Half Moon Bay ‐ Sep 29, 2023

47.7 nm

We finally got far enough south to find the famous rain New York's been complaining about the last week. It rained our whole journey down to Half Moon Bay, where we anchored in the bay, outside Russ and Jax staying in the marina. The prettiness of this section of the Hudson was definitely muted by the clouds, but we ended up getting a pretty sunset later on in the evening. We'll stay here for a couple days until we move down to Great Kills on Sunday.

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Kingston Maritime Museum ‐ Sep 28, 2023

34.8 nm

We mainly stopped at Donovan's to be able to use their courtesy car. We had some errands to do, primarily picking up our pile of alcohol from the storage unit we stashed it in for the summer, but also doing some grocery shopping and some other misc stops while we had a car for the morning. We pumped out our quite-full holding tanks and headed out about noon. Given the long day yesterday, and that we were a day+ ahead of schedule, we did a shorter day today to give ourselves a break, and stopp [...]
ed in a couple hours before sunset at Kingston, then chilled for the evening.
Donovan's Shady Harbor ‐ Sep 27, 2023

64 nm

Looooong day -- 7am for the first lock down Lock 13 at opening time, doing 13 total locks, and getting into Donovan's at a hair after 7pm (sunset at 6:53, oops). The morning started out crazy foggy -- like the thickest fog we've ever tried to move in, with me just mostly navigating via the chartplotter and trying to sight ATONs through the fog if they happened to come close enough on that chart that I would expect to see them. By around 10am, though, it had mostly burned off, and later turned [...]
into an absolutely gorgeous fall day. We blasted through all 12 locks of the Erie, with a brief moment of excitement as lock 4 broke for ~15 mins and they couldn't get the exit doors to open, and then the Troy lock on the Hudson, chasing the sunset to get into Donovan's well after they closed for the night. Tiring day, but we're now ahead of track for getting necessary errands done and getting Hannah to an airport for next week.

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Erie Lock 13 ‐ Sep 26, 2023

44 nm

I had an interview this morning, so we left a little later on, around 9am, and went right to when the locks closed at 5pm, showing up lock 13 just after they closed. Today started to get into the prettier portion of the Erie -- more connected rivers and fewer human-cut-straight-lines, and some rolling hills starting to come into play as we got deeper into the Mohawk Valley. But we're pretty much beelining at this point, trying to get south to Baltimore before October 19th.

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Erie Lock 20 ‐ Sep 25, 2023

44.7 nm

We had a sea trial early this morning, and everything worked great! Vibration is gone, fuel consumption is way down, lumpy idle is gone, and smoke is down! It's possible, ~40,000$ of parts and labor later, our injection issues are fixed for a while! After that, we headed out and did locks 22-21 after stopping for a couple hours at Sylvan Beach while I did some interviews. It was a super boring trip today after crossing the lake -- we're deep in the "man-made arrow-straight cut" part of the E [...]
rie.
San Jose ‐ Sep 21, 2023

We had planned a trip to visit Hannah's brother in the bay area a while back, but were expecting to fly from closer to NYC. Still being stuck in Brewerton waiting on the injector rebuild to finish, we ended up getting new tickets from Syracuse. We spent a very busy 3 days in the bay area -- visited Alcatraz, has a Napa wine tasting day where we ended up joining a wine club, and had a Michelin-star-dinner, along with drinks out every night. We needed a rest day after our vacation, but alas, Mo [...]
nday came fast.

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Bay Area
Destiny USA Mall ‐ Sep 9, 2023

Still in Brewerton, we all went back to Destiny USA for a longer day. We did more escape rooms, went go-karting, and had dinner at PF Changs (hell yeah).
Destiny USA Mall ‐ Sep 4, 2023

We took the holiday opportunity to try out some escape rooms in this Destiny Mall in Syracuse, and it turned out to be a great find. The rooms weren't all that great, but the mall was a revamped mall that still had some normal shopping, but, by square footage, was mostly entertainment complexes -- go karting, 3 escape room places, comedy club, ropes course, several types of VR adventures, trampoline room, and more. We did a few escape rooms and then ate some dinner, but this is the future of m [...]
alls.
Finger Lakes ‐ Sep 2, 2023

Knowing that both of our boats would be doing various service-y things this week, we planned for the long holiday weekend to be out in the Finger Lakes. We did a chartered wine tour on Saturday and then Jax organized a self-guided beer tour on Sunday. The wine was infinitely better than expected (we have not had good luck with wine made on the east coast so far), and the beer was also (mostly) great, and it was a super fun weekend with perfect weather to explore the Finger Lakes region.

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Sea Trial ‐ Sep 1, 2023

5 nm

After the Yanmar mechanics changed out our injection pumps, Russ and Jax generously volunteered to drive our boat (since we were in Seattle) for a few miles while the mechanics checked things out. We stalked the boat from Seattle with our cameras, which was entertaining. Unfortunately, they found some remaining issues, so back to the yard it went, for more debugging next week.
Seattle ‐ Aug 27, 2023

We did a short flight to Seattle for what turned out to be my last quarterly work visit with Outreach. We had the great opportunity to catch up with old friends at a baby shower and all parts of the de Regt family on Sunday, then worked for the week and flew back super early on Friday.

Rideau Canal Pt 1

The next day was Monday and we started to settle in to what would become our regular week-day on the Rideau pattern - we would wake up in time to arrive at the next lock right when it opened (at 8am),...
Ess-Kay Yards ‐ Aug 26, 2023

17 nm

We went through the last lock on the Oswego canal today, and while in the canal, I noticed a storefront with "distillery" written on it, so I called an audible and we all pulled over after the lock to check it out. Lock 1 Distillery turned out to be an awesome ... distillhouse? They had a bunch of their own spirits for sampling and buying, lots of interesting cocktails using their liquors, and many beers on tap and more in bottles/cans, with food available too. A great spot for a tiny town! [...]
After buying some whiskey, we headed back out and soon took a left to join the Erie canal, going through one more lock before filling back up with ~680 gallons of diesel at Winter Harbor ($3.79/gallon) and pumping out the holding tanks. After exchanging fluids, we pulled into a slip at Ess-Kay Yards, where the boat will stay for the next week getting the injection pumps changed out while we are in Seattle for a work trip for me. Let's hope that job goes smoothly...

Oswego Canal and Brewerton

We arrived in Oswego a day ahead of Russ and Jax and tied up against the free wall in the city. With both of us needing some engine work done, Russ recommended a ship yard along the Erie Canal where t...

Saying Goodbye to Alex, on to Ottawa

From St Anne, we had only a few more days with Alex. Our plan was to get as close to Ottawa as possible so that Alex would be able to catch a train back to Montreal where he would fly home. We went th...
Fulton ‐ Aug 25, 2023

9.5 nm

To split the journey to Ess-Kay in two, we did an early morning hop through the next four locks of the Oswego, to arrive in Fulton. The locks went mostly uneventfully. As we passed through Lock 6, the lockmaster said lock 5 had no power so it might be a while, but as we approached lock 5, the lights were on and the lockmaster said power had just been restored, so all was well. We stayed on a crumbling wall in between locks 2 and 3 in Fulton and walked into town for dinner, passing by a little [...]
town square where a 4-banjo band had apparently just finished playing to a crowd of retirees.
Oswego ‐ Aug 20, 2023

54.6 nm

Knowing we had to make a pretty big open crossing of Lake Ontario, we looked at the weather for the next few days, and Sunday looked like decent-enough weather, especially later in the day. It was better on Tuesday, but that would have been complicated with work schedules, so we decided to risk it and headed out. And we regretted it, a bit. It turned out to be 2-3 foot conditions with pretty short durations for the first half of the trip or so, so we planed here and there to avoid some of the [...]
worst of it, and hid behind the islands half way down to avoid some fetch. It smoothed out in the evening as we pulled into Oswego, but the day definitely polished our holding tanks, shaking them up for 6 hours straight. We went through the first lock (O-8) to get off the weather-affected water, and parked for the week at the free wall just south of the lock. We're aiming to get to Ess-Kay to get some work done on the boat starting the following Monday, so we have some time to chill, now that we've made it across the lake. Russ and Jax will follow on Tuesday, when the weather is nicer.

Week in Oswego

We spent the week (Sunday evening through Friday morning) working and hanging out in Oswego. Our memory was that it was a cute tourist town, from the couple days we spent here on our loop. It turned o...
Clayton ‐ Aug 19, 2023

9.9 nm

After exploring Boldt Castle, we moseyed upriver to anchor at Clayton, a cute little town with an antique wooden boat museum, some restaurants, and a distillery. We dinghied to shore, catching the guy in the shack of the town dock saying, "I'm leaving, I never saw you here", saving us 7$. We caught the closing hour of the museum, which had a bunch of neat wooden boats from the late 1800s through mid 1900s, and also a wedding setting up that we contemplated crashing. From there we wandered over [...]
to get some beer at the local brewery, did some spirit tasting at the local distillery (and bought some gin and whiskey), and had a great dinner outdoors with a wonderful view of the river.
Boldt Castle ‐ Aug 18, 2023

3.6 nm

We started dragging a little bit midday Friday in heavy wind, so in the late afternoon we moved over to anchor next to Boldt Castle. Saturday morning, we woke up and pulled over to the dock before opening time so we'd be the first peeps into the castle before the tour boats showed up, and had a fun explore of the grounds. This castle's a little wacky because Boldt's wife died before the castle was completed and he stopped construction with almost none of the interior completed. It fell into d [...]
isrepair for quite a while before it was granted to the Bridge Authority in the 70s and they've been restoring it to what it "might have looked like if it were finished" ever since. Very pretty building and grounds, but definitely a little of an exercise in creative license.

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Castles!!!

Our first stop after clearing the US Border was Singer Castle. A privately owned castle where we tied up for the morning on their dock and were able to take a private tour of the castle before tourist...
Lake of the Isles ‐ Aug 14, 2023

3.3 nm

We have a week to get a few miles away down to Boldt Castle, so we decided to find a more protected anchorage for a few days, and before work we moved down to this pretty little "lake" in the center of some large islands. Despite it being a Monday, there's still boats out everywhere around us -- rafted boats, kids playing on water toys, etc. But at least people are mostly being pretty kind with wakes, given how many boats are around. This is our likely hangout spot for a few days.
Summerland Group ‐ Aug 13, 2023

5 nm

After the Singer Castle tour, we took a quick journey back up the river and set up on anchor in this protected area in between four small islands called the Summerland Group. The wakes from sport boats taking the channel north of us were actually fairly often, but calmed down after dark and we had a nice evening here.
Singer Castle ‐ Aug 12, 2023

4 nm

In the morning, we headed over to Singer Castle, arriving before they opened, giving us both good spots on the dock wall of the island. We had a great little private 1 hour tour before all the tour boats showed up at 11am, showing off what turned out to be a gorgeous manor on this pretty little island. They even have the ability to nightly-rent the master suite for a distressingly reasonable price, which we may have to do someday.

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Grenadier Island, Canada

15.5 nm

After the storm abated in the late afternoon, we decided to make the trip up closer to Singer Castle, and took what turned out to be a very pretty boat tour through the Canadian side of the 1000 islands. Lots of narrow little passages, rocky islands, tons of people out having fun on the water, etc. We pumped out in Rockport since we were getting pretty full and weren't sure when our next marina would be, then dropped anchor in an inlet on the south side of Grenadier island. We briefly swam fo [...]
r a bit before the sun went down and settled in for dinner and games.
Ganonoque

2 nm

In the morning, the Marina was still full, and a storm was headed our way, so we just moved a little closer to town to make for an easier dinghy trip. We dinghied in, got breakfast at what turned out to be a pretty mediocre restaurant, and then hung out at the (also mediocre) brewery for a game of Hanabi. After one beer, the storm shifted and we ran back to the dinghy, getting back to the boat and the dinghy back on the lift and everything packed away just as the raindrops started falling. It [...]
proceeded to monsoon for the afternoon while we hid indoors.

Kingston and Gananoque

Since our marina reservations wouldn't start until Monday, we dropped the hook right outside the marina and hopped in the dinghies to shore. While searching for the dinghy dock, we ran into a very nic...
Huckleberry Island ‐ Aug 11, 2023

15.9 nm

After a great few days in Kingston, we headed down the St Lawrence to Ganonoque, to be ready to spend Saturday in town exploring. The marina turned out to be full, so we ended up anchoring in front of Huckleberry Island for the night. Nice little anchorage that was a little wakey, but that died down after dark.
Kingston Marina ‐ Aug 7, 2023

1.2 nm

We moved into the Marina from being on anchor for 2 days. The anchor chain was just solidly covered in endless weeds and took ~20 mins to pull up and clean. We then spent a few days exploring the fun town of Kingston!

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Kingston ‐ Aug 5, 2023

12.1 nm

We did our standard thing of waking up early enough to get to the next set of locks by 8:45am, and the one boat waiting at the lock was fine waiting for the second cycle. The entire quad-lock-plus-basin setup was completely empty, so we had to wait for it to fill up and then lock people through from the bottom. But surprisingly, at 10:20am, the set of boats emerged from the lock and we hustled in, and were out of the locks in time to get to Kingston and drop anchor by around noon. We dropped [...]
anchor in the bay north of the bridge to explore for the weekend.

+4
Below Lock 45 ‐ Aug 3, 2023

9.4 nm

After the hike, we pulled anchor (which took a looong time to get the weeds off) and worked our way down to a set of 2 then 1 locks, where we set up on the wall for the day, with more thunderstorms in the afternoon. Inquest wandered over to a nearby farmers market to pick up some treats while we worked for the day, then we hung out after work to close out the week.

Rideau Canal Pt 2

From the locks at Perth, after I solo-ed the dinghy down through the locks, we headed on Sunday to Colonel By Island, where Russ had read that there were mooring balls. It turned out to be a pretty po...
Rock Dunder Lookout ‐ Aug 2, 2023

Did a quick dinghy ride over to tie to a tree where we could easily join the trail for a quick hike up to Rock Dunder Lookout, giving a great view of the whole valley.

+3
Moton Bay

4.2 nm

We can't pass up the opportunity for a good protected bay with a sketchy entrance. We didn't have much time on Wednesday morning, so we got through the quad Jones Lock with Inquest crewing the boat while Hannah was on back to back meetings all day, then set up on anchor in Moton Bay, which involved going through a _very_ narrow entrance that was awkwardly buoyed. But the anchor set up great, and later in the afternoon Inquest joined us. In the evening, we dinghied back up to the lock for a re [...]
staurant at the hotel, which turned out to be pretty mediocre, though we had the most excited waitress any of us had ever seen. We've been hanging out here for two days now, and it's a lovely little bay, but the weather has been largely raining on and off, which isn't ideal. Oh well. Can't win em all.

+3
Birmingham Island (>Lock 38) ‐ Aug 1, 2023

3.1 nm

Simple day today. Locked down, went through a neat tight windy section that reminded me a lot of some of the lakes on the middle of the Trent-Severn, went down one more lock, and then anchored behind an island (and hey, the anchor hooked up this time!). The port engine was throwing rack position error codes this morning far more often than usual, which was worrying, so we planed for a few minutes on the open lake after the second lock to get some heat into the solenoid, and hopefully that will [...]
keep it at bay for a while.
Above Lock 37 ‐ Jul 31, 2023

13.1 nm

We arrived at our first lock at the usual 8:55am, ready to lock through when they opened, and then got right into the second lock shortly thereafter. We then started looking for anchorages, and a straightforward day turned into a mess. I called an audible and tried a spot out in Newboro lake, but dragged up a giant pile of weed and scraped the anchor across sheer granite bottom. We both then went to our original plan of Stouts Lower Bay, and both Inquest and us tried multiple spots in the bay [...]
, never getting even the briefest hint of holding, but moving hundreds of pounds of greenery from the bottom. We eventually gave up and went to the next lock and stayed on the wall there for the day, which turned out to be a cute little party spot. Really all these lock walls have been very welcoming wonderful spots, a big contrast to the Trent-Severn. We worked there for the day uneventfully.
Colonel By Island ‐ Jul 30, 2023

10 nm

After finishing up repairing the alternator (I had to borrow a wire brush from Russ since mine seem to have disappeared), we headed out and made our way through a pretty section that reminded me of the Trent-Severn we did on the loop, ending up joining Inquest at Colonel By Island (named for the guy who built the Rideau and started Bytown/Ottawa, despite that it's unclear what the actual connection is). We anchored since all the mooring balls were full, then dinghied over to Inquest to gorge ou [...]
rselves on a big joint brunch. We all went ashore to take the short hike around the island, then returned to the boats. Hannah and Russ went swimming (Hannah went for a long swim between the two boats that I monitored from the dinghy for safety), then we chilled for the day.

+3
Perth ‐ Jul 29, 2023

Perth

We'd stopped at this small side trip off the Rideau, the Tay Canal, because we'd met some boaters a few days ago coming the other way on the Rideau that suggested doing a dinghy trip up the river all...
Tay Canal Locks

6.4 nm

We woke up to a dreary-looking day, got some pastries from a local bakery, and departed, locking up out of Smiths Falls. This next segment was what we would ordinarily consider very tight/windy/narrow, but the lock before us was the Kawartha Voyageur, an 110 ft long 30 ft wide cruise boat bespoke to just barely fit inside these locks, so we had to hold our pride. If they could make it around here, we'd be ok. We stopped briefly in an open area on the lake to anchor and clean out our through h [...]
ulls and sea trial to make sure our overheating problem was over. When we raised anchor, we pulled up a huge pile of weed that took Hannah a while to clean up, then we nestled into the lock wall at the bottom of the Tay Canal, where we'd planned to spend the afternoon in Perth (see attached blog post). After returning from Perth, I found that the alternator power cable end was starting to melt and spent the rest of the evening (and morning) rebuilding and improving that whole system, which was definitely how I wanted to spend the evening.

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Smith Falls ‐ Jul 28, 2023

5.1 nm

Another mostly-uneventful morning run through another 3 locks to get into downtown Smith Falls. We tried going on plane in one section to burn off some carbon and get some heat into the engines, but the port side motor quickly started overheating. I cleaned out the strainer and that helped a bit, but water flow still isn't great, so there's something partially blocking the line that we need to sort out, but it's able to hold temperature at lower RPMs/load, so we pressed on to finish the mornin [...]
g in town. The last lock of the day was a large single newer lock that replaces a set of 3 older locks and drops you right in downtown Smith Falls. We tied up and worked for the day while Russ and Jax explored, then walked to a fun dinner with live music at a brewpub that overlooked the actual falls. Good way to end the week.

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Top of Rideau Lock 24 ‐ Jul 27, 2023

8.3 nm

Another fairly straightforward day, though it was raining most of the morning. We went up a triple lock set at Merrickville and then went another 8 miles to and through the lock at Kilmarnock, stopping at the top side for the afternoon/night. It's quite shallow along this lock side -- only ~6" under the hull at the spot closest to the wall we're on (see pic). We're aiming to get to Smith Falls tomorrow, a bigger town, where Russ will be getting a package.
Top of Rideau Lock 20 ‐ Jul 26, 2023

11.3 nm

A well-orchestrated plan immediately fell apart upon arriving at lock 17 and there being ~10 boats waiting to lock up already there. We ended up having a mess of rotating crews as I was on calls manning one line in the lock, sometimes Hannah jumping in and out, and the Inquest folks helping on and off as well. We ended up eventually getting above Lock 20 around 1pm, many meetings later, where we'll spend the night on just a lock wall in the middle of a pretty forest/river area.

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Random Anchorage ‐ Jul 25, 2023

12.4 nm

This section of the Rideau is mostly no-wake, so going 5.5kts. We stopped at a random spot after a few hours of travel this morning that's maybe a quarter mile off the main channel, so lots of room to swing and plenty of depth. Just periodic wakes from passing express cruisers.

St. Anne and Montreal

As I mentioned in an earlier post, when we left Quebec City, we would be re-tracing our steps, but this time going against the current. We had therefore 2 veeeeeeerrrry long cruising days ahead of us...
Above Lock 16 ‐ Jul 24, 2023

7.7 nm

We woke up at apparently the coolest time to be skulling on the water this morning, as we had to dodge literally around 100 kayakers/crew folks in various watercraft on the section of the Rideau we departed from this morning. We got to lock 13 and the boats that were already there let us pass through first as soon as the lock opened, so that went relatively quickly. However, we then got to the triple locks 14-16 just as Hannah started meetings, so we ended up having Russ and Jax crew for me fo [...]
r lock 14 while Hannah worked, then she took over for 15-16, and we set up for the day on the wall just above the lock. Russ and Jax joined us later after the next set of lock-throughs. It's been hot as heck today, so the thunder and rain that came in the evening has been most welcome.

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Quebec City with 1 Dane, 1 Brit, and 3 Americans

The day after we arrived in Quebec City we were joined by our friend Alex, visiting us from Florida. For the evening, we had been invited by Jamie on No Rush for an evening cruise to view a waterfall...
To Above Lock 12 ‐ Jul 23, 2023

4.6 nm

We had what turned out to be a long and draining day of many multi-modal transport legs -- an Escape Room, pump-out, Costco, and 3 locks.

+3

Starting the Rideau

A Second Exciting Ottawa Day

Saturday night, we'd hatched plans to do an escape room then go do some shopping (Costco, groceries, and possibly some other things). We'd decided to move from the wall down to Dow's Lake to get us t...

Canada!

We woke up early and cruised for about 10 minutes when we reached the Canadian border. David and Russ hopped off the boat and after about 5 minutes we were both cleared! (No questions regarding our al...
Ottawa ‐ Jul 22, 2023

Friday was mostly a day of work. Russ managed to get out to the old guy in a shed with his starter, and by mid-afternoon, the guy had fixed it and Inquest was back in business by dinnertime. We made an early dinner together and then went out for mani-pedis, which ended up taking a turn where we had to go to a second place because the "reservation" apparently didn't mean anything at the first place and would have been waiting for hours. Saturday we did a very full day in town that I'll go into [...]
in a post.

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Two Walking Tours of Ottawa

Hannah and I have been doing walking tours of cities more and more often, when we need some basic context to start understanding the history of a city/region/etc., and can then layer on more things fr...
Downtown Ottawa ‐ Jul 20, 2023

1.2 nm

We woke up in time to hurry up and wait for the 9am start of locking up the 8 connected locks of the beginning of the Rideau Canal today. Eventually the lock folks came down and started sorting out who would go first today and we got under way. Us and Inquest could fit with two smaller boats to our sides, so we shoehorned ourselves into the locks and started the process. It took an hour to sort out the first lock, but each lock after that was around 15 minutes each. It had taken long enough [...]
that I ended up taking meetings with an earbud+mic in my right ear, and the Eartec to communicate with Hannah in my left ear. But we reasonably efficiently made our way to the top and docked the boat. Unfortunately, Inquest lost a starter motor in the second lock and needed help getting onto the wall at the top, where we then tore down the starter and found it to be totally toast. Russ will sort out a repair/replacement in the morning, and we went to a nice dinner in town where we scared away some other patrons by being too boisterous.

Rideau Canal Timelapse
Ottawa Lower Wall ‐ Jul 19, 2023

11.2 nm

We took an easy morning cruise to Governor's Bay, just north of downtown Ottawa. It had warnings of snags, so we were nervous, but Inquest anchored and we set up for the day and worked. After the locks closed for the day, we headed a mile into downtown to line up on the blue line to start the Rideau canal in the morning, and then headed into Ottawa for the evening. There's so many restaurants here, but also pretty parks and fun buildings. We had a delicious dinner at a Japanese restaurant, a [...]
nd then got Croffles -- waffles made with croissant dough -- for dessert. All amazing. We're excited to spend a few days here, but have to get up the 8 sequential locks in the morning.

+2
Petrie Island ‐ Jul 18, 2023

26 nm

Another uneventful passage this morning, passing through a privately-marked passage in the shoals to this pretty little bay in front of a public park/beach island. The anchor dragged a nontrivial bit before hooking up, so I hope that's all fine and good, especially since we have 200 feet of chain out from the depth. There's a restaurant on the island with fish tacos and beyond burgers we're excited about, but the forecast was showing a ton of rain coming, around dinnertime, and it delivered. [...]
We had monsoons for an hour or so -- just a crazy amount of water. Inquest saw a wind gust up to 44kts at one point. Then it settled down as we ate dinner on the boats and eventually had a very calm evening overnight. This is Alex's last night on the boat -- he takes a train from Ottawa in the morning.

+2
Montebello ‐ Jul 17, 2023

21.8 nm

Despite leaving a tripline out of worry for the bottom, the anchor came up easily and we had an uneventful morning cruise over to Montebello. Here we stayed at a marina/RV park in what turned out to be a cute little town. Our goal here was to have a nice dinner at the Fairmont Chateau Montebello, which claims to be the largest wood building in the world. After work, we walked over through the woods to the resort, which was a quite lovely building inside ("especially for a non-Disney property" [...]
, as Russ said). We had a great, very long, dinner, and then walked back, not through the now-impromptu-named "murder forest".

+2
West of Carillon Lock ‐ Jul 16, 2023

25.5 nm

We headed back to the boats, where Alex had made a wonderful Danish pile-of-stuff-on-rye-bread lunch, to which we showed no mercy (left no leftovers). We then rolled out of town in time to get through both the St Anne lock, which was a cute little like 1.5 ft lift, and contrasted it with the Carillon lock, which was a huge lift of a lock. It had a garage door type opening on the low side it was so big. We then just dropped anchor at a nice looking bay just past the lock, swam a little, and th [...]
en ate cake and called it an evening.

+8
Montreal Aviation Museum

3 nm

Started the day with Russ and I scooting/biking over to check out the Montreal Aviation Museum, which turned out to be a great little local museum full of restored old planes that were clearly labors of love. It was very focused on the early era of aviation, which I actually knew very little about, so it was quite interesting, with a special exhibit on women in early aviation plus Canada's efforts in the beginning of the aviation race. Great way to spend 90 minutes.
Montreal Old Town ‐ Jul 15, 2023

Took the bus into the old town area of Montreal and explored for the afternoon. Ate lots of ice cream, saw pretty buildings, drank lots of great beer. At the end of the day, it's a pretty huge and fairly modern city, and hence somewhat less exciting to us. We were glad to have gone in and explored for a day. Maybe worth a longer trip in the future at some point, with a target of going up Mont Royal and doing some of the stuff further afield.
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue ‐ Jul 14, 2023

Planning to stay at Saint-Anne for 3 nights. Friday, we mostly worked but went out for a fantastic fondue dinner at a restaurant owned by a fantastically French hostess/chef couple. We stuffed our faces with cheese for >4 hours before we finally finished and went back to the boats to sleep.
Locking through Montreal ‐ Jul 13, 2023

33 nm

We passed through the two locks we got reservations for -- St Lambert and St Catherine -- today, but it was a mess. Despite the system giving us locking times of 9am and 11am, respectively, we instead went through at 9:30am and 1pm. This put us well into the afternoon when we emerged from the canal, and a windstorm had brewed in the meantime, sending 2-3 footers @ 2-3s frequency at us directly on the beam as we crossed the open sound over to the western tip of Montreal. We pulled into the lock w [...]
all minutes before a deluge started, preempted by ~6 different AMBER alerts warning us of tornadoes in the area. We plan to stay here for a couple days to chill.

+2
La Grand Riviere ‐ Jul 12, 2023

35.9 nm

An uneventful cruise up the St Lawrence today, getting close to the locks for a passage through Montreal tomorrow morning. Only thing of note was that the river split into two channels -- a large deep-dredged one for cargo ships, and a "small craft channel". Inquest took the small craft channel and we took the deeper one, just to see. The deeper one had slightly shorter distance but slightly more current against. In the end, 10 miles later, we rejoined each other exactly the same 1.8nm apart [...]
that we started. We set up on anchor in front of a bridge on a side river, surrounded by kayaks and fishermen.
Sorel-Tracy ‐ Jul 11, 2023

28.3 nm

Morning cruise upriver (6.5-ish kts the whole way) to our same anchorage from last week. Inquest followed later and rafted on us. 85F and humid as hell all day. Had dinner on Inquest followed by a short period of biblical floods that brought temps down to the low 60s.
Trois-Rivieres ‐ Jul 10, 2023

77.2 nm

Long day of nonstop rain. Started out with good current with us, going to neutral at the rapids, and then down to several kts against us by the time we got to Trois-Rivieres. The tremendous rainfall probably did not help the situation. Rafted alongside Inquest who had anchored and gotten there a few minutes ahead of us and had dinner on the boat together.
Quebec ‐ Jul 4, 2023

77 nm

Made the long day run downriver to Quebec. We had to carefully time the currents to work with the tides, since the river gets increasingly tidal below Trois-Rivieres. We peaked around 14kt through "the rapids", a narrow section of the river. The marina in Quebec is safely behind a small lock that restricts access in/out of the marina, but keeps the marina itself protected from the huge tide swings (~14 ft) at the city. We have a reservation here for the week to give us time to explore the ci [...]
ty.

+3

Repairing a leaky roof

While going north on the last day of our trip up the Richelieu, we got waked pretty bad by some passing express cruisers, and water started pouring out of the ceiling onto the helm. We'd had a similar...
Day 1502 ‐ Jul 3, 2023

32.8 nm
Day 1501 ‐ Jul 2, 2023

49.3 nm

Lake Champlain

The next morning, we headed north a bit and dropped anchor just south of Fort Ticonderoga and rafted up with Russ and Jax on one side and some new friends Jamie and Trish on the other side! Though we...
Day 1500 ‐ Jul 1, 2023

10.9 nm

Seattle and Locks on the Champlain Canal
Day 1499 ‐ Jun 30, 2023

23.1 nm
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1.2 nm
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26.7 nm
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15.3 nm
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Day 1493 ‐ Jun 24, 2023

20.1 nm
Day 1492 ‐ Jun 23, 2023

26.9 nm

Up the Hudson River

The first stretch of the Hudson is one of the more beautiful boating days on the East Coast. We had an early start since we wanted to make some good distance on the weekend day of cruising. This meant...
Day 1491 ‐ Jun 22, 2023
Day 1490 ‐ Jun 21, 2023

21.4 nm
Day 1489 ‐ Jun 20, 2023

6.3 nm
Day 1488 ‐ Jun 19, 2023

52.3 nm
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24.5 nm
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13.3 nm
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16.2 nm
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14.4 nm
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57 nm
Day 1472 ‐ Jun 3, 2023

36.5 nm

2 Days in New York

Thursday morning, we woke up early to do the 2-hour cruise from Great Kills to Brooklyn in order for me to arrive before work to head into the office for the day. While David napped, I took the helm a...
Day 1471 ‐ Jun 2, 2023
Day 1470 ‐ Jun 1, 2023

16.2 nm

Cruising Again! Baltimore to New Jersey

Yes, you read that right! After almost 6 months, we are finally cruising again! After watching the weather carefully, we decided to head out of Baltimore on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. Even...
Day 1469 ‐ May 31, 2023

Final Weeks in Baltimore

After we returned to Baltimore from Disney, we did have a few boat projects to get wrapped up with. Primarily, re-fixing the hydraulic swim platform where our dingy sits. If you recall, when Brent and...
Day 1468 ‐ May 30, 2023
Day 1467 ‐ May 29, 2023

94.4 nm
Day 1466 ‐ May 28, 2023

83.7 nm
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87.2 nm
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3 nm

Disney Adventures

Ever since I had first heard about it, I was interested in doing it, but it wasn't until I suggested that Matthew join me in visiting Disney that it became a reality. I'm talking about the Galactic
Day 1455 ‐ May 17, 2023

April: We Bought a House in Key West!

Though I did not mention it in our last post, there was actually one other update from the month of March. After the loooooong winter in Baltimore, it had made me realize that one of the reasons I was...
Day 1454 ‐ May 16, 2023
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March: Prague and Seattle; Highwind Engine Progress

We arrived in Prague on Saturday, got dinner and drinks, and wandered around a bit. Sunday, we had pre-planned to take a day trip outside of the city to Kutna Hora. We took the train and arrived a 2 m...
Day 1410 ‐ Apr 2, 2023

February: Long Winter in Baltimore & Big Sky

The better part of February was spent in Baltimore with the one engine out of commission and hunkering down through the cold weather. I managed to get out to two different pole studios in the area and...
Day 1409 ‐ Apr 1, 2023
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January in Baltimore, NYC, and Key West

With most of the starboard engine sitting in pieces on a tarp upstairs, we've settled down into something resembling a routine (as much as that is possible given our hectic lives). We returned to High...
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2023 Internet Setup
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Limbo
Day 1313 ‐ Dec 26, 2022

0.3 nm
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0.3 nm
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Day 1292 ‐ Dec 5, 2022

Stranded at Solomons

After our vacation week, we returned to reality and Highwind in Baltimore, where we both promptly got sick with bad colds, David first and then me a few days after. Unfortunately that meant that we ha...
Day 1291 ‐ Dec 4, 2022
Day 1290 ‐ Dec 3, 2022
Day 1289 ‐ Dec 2, 2022

76.1 nm
Day 1288 ‐ Dec 1, 2022

+2
Day 1287 ‐ Nov 30, 2022
Day 1286 ‐ Nov 29, 2022
Day 1285 ‐ Nov 28, 2022
Day 1284 ‐ Nov 27, 2022
Day 1283 ‐ Nov 26, 2022
Day 1282 ‐ Nov 25, 2022
Day 1281 ‐ Nov 24, 2022
Day 1280 ‐ Nov 23, 2022
Day 1279 ‐ Nov 22, 2022
Day 1278 ‐ Nov 21, 2022
Day 1277 ‐ Nov 20, 2022
Day 1276 ‐ Nov 19, 2022
Day 1275 ‐ Nov 18, 2022
Day 1274 ‐ Nov 17, 2022
Day 1273 ‐ Nov 16, 2022
Day 1272 ‐ Nov 15, 2022
Day 1271 ‐ Nov 14, 2022
Day 1270 ‐ Nov 13, 2022
Day 1269 ‐ Nov 12, 2022
Day 1268 ‐ Nov 11, 2022
Day 1267 ‐ Nov 10, 2022
Day 1266 ‐ Nov 9, 2022
Day 1265 ‐ Nov 8, 2022
Day 1264 ‐ Nov 7, 2022
Day 1263 ‐ Nov 6, 2022
Day 1262 ‐ Nov 5, 2022
Day 1261 ‐ Nov 4, 2022
Day 1260 ‐ Nov 3, 2022
Day 1259 ‐ Nov 2, 2022
Day 1258 ‐ Nov 1, 2022
Day 1257 ‐ Oct 31, 2022

Portugal - Coimbra and Lisbon

On our way south from the Duoro Valley to Lisbon, Francisco had recommended that we stop in Coimbra to visit the University library - the Biblioteca Joanina. Coimbra University is one of the oldest ed...
Day 1256 ‐ Oct 30, 2022

Portugal - Douro Valley
Day 1255 ‐ Oct 29, 2022

Portugal - Porto
Day 1254 ‐ Oct 28, 2022

Prague with Friends
Day 1253 ‐ Oct 27, 2022

35.2 nm
Day 1252 ‐ Oct 26, 2022

44.5 nm
Day 1251 ‐ Oct 25, 2022

0.3 nm
Day 1250 ‐ Oct 24, 2022
Day 1249 ‐ Oct 23, 2022

0.1 nm
Day 1248 ‐ Oct 22, 2022
Day 1247 ‐ Oct 21, 2022
Day 1246 ‐ Oct 20, 2022
Day 1245 ‐ Oct 19, 2022
Day 1244 ‐ Oct 18, 2022
Day 1243 ‐ Oct 17, 2022
Day 1242 ‐ Oct 16, 2022
Day 1241 ‐ Oct 15, 2022
Day 1240 ‐ Oct 14, 2022
Day 1239 ‐ Oct 13, 2022
Day 1238 ‐ Oct 12, 2022
Day 1237 ‐ Oct 11, 2022
Day 1236 ‐ Oct 10, 2022
Day 1235 ‐ Oct 9, 2022
Day 1234 ‐ Oct 8, 2022
Day 1233 ‐ Oct 7, 2022
Day 1232 ‐ Oct 6, 2022
Day 1231 ‐ Oct 5, 2022

Seattle and Baltimore

Our visit to Seattle was only a few days, just for a work event for David, so we didn't have much chance to see people while we were there. Coincidentally Mum and Dad were in the city living on their...
Day 1230 ‐ Oct 4, 2022
Day 1229 ‐ Oct 3, 2022

New York with My Brother
Day 1228 ‐ Oct 2, 2022
Day 1227 ‐ Oct 1, 2022
Day 1226 ‐ Sep 30, 2022
Day 1225 ‐ Sep 29, 2022
Day 1224 ‐ Sep 28, 2022
Day 1223 ‐ Sep 27, 2022
Day 1222 ‐ Sep 26, 2022

Newport to New York with Matthew

We arrived in Newport on Friday morning of Labor Day weekend, with plans for my brother Matthew to meet us Saturday evening and stay for a week. As per Matthew's usual curse, a few days earlier, our c...
Day 1221 ‐ Sep 25, 2022

0.2 nm

48V Lithium Power System, Updated

New England and Cleveland

Our next fixed destination was Boston for the end of the week, where we'd be flying out once again for another wedding. We had planned to take most of the week to get there, but decided instead to mak...
Day 1220 ‐ Sep 24, 2022
Day 1219 ‐ Sep 23, 2022
Day 1218 ‐ Sep 22, 2022
Day 1217 ‐ Sep 21, 2022
Day 1216 ‐ Sep 20, 2022
Day 1215 ‐ Sep 19, 2022
Day 1214 ‐ Sep 18, 2022

69.7 nm
Day 1213 ‐ Sep 17, 2022

189.2 nm
Day 1212 ‐ Sep 16, 2022
Day 1211 ‐ Sep 15, 2022
Day 1210 ‐ Sep 14, 2022
Day 1209 ‐ Sep 13, 2022
Day 1208 ‐ Sep 12, 2022

16.9 nm
Day 1207 ‐ Sep 11, 2022

0.3 nm
Day 1206 ‐ Sep 10, 2022
Day 1205 ‐ Sep 9, 2022

22.9 nm
Day 1204 ‐ Sep 8, 2022

40.7 nm

Portland, ME to Portland, OR

Our first stop on the way to Portland was a return to Boothbay where we met up with Russ and Jax after work for what might be our last Maine lobster at the wharf and a return to the waffle ice-cream s...
Day 1203 ‐ Sep 7, 2022
Day 1202 ‐ Sep 6, 2022

83.3 nm
Day 1201 ‐ Sep 5, 2022

26.2 nm
Day 1200 ‐ Sep 4, 2022
Day 1199 ‐ Sep 3, 2022
Day 1198 ‐ Sep 2, 2022

19.5 nm
Day 1197 ‐ Sep 1, 2022

6.6 nm
Day 1196 ‐ Aug 31, 2022

4.9 nm
Day 1195 ‐ Aug 30, 2022

32 nm
Day 1194 ‐ Aug 29, 2022

23.1 nm
Day 1193 ‐ Aug 28, 2022

62.7 nm
Day 1192 ‐ Aug 27, 2022
Day 1191 ‐ Aug 26, 2022
Day 1190 ‐ Aug 25, 2022
Day 1189 ‐ Aug 24, 2022

29.4 nm
Day 1188 ‐ Aug 23, 2022

32.6 nm
Day 1187 ‐ Aug 22, 2022

56.9 nm
Day 1186 ‐ Aug 21, 2022
Day 1185 ‐ Aug 20, 2022
Day 1184 ‐ Aug 19, 2022
Day 1183 ‐ Aug 18, 2022
Day 1182 ‐ Aug 17, 2022
Day 1181 ‐ Aug 16, 2022
Day 1180 ‐ Aug 15, 2022

6.3 nm
Day 1179 ‐ Aug 14, 2022
Day 1178 ‐ Aug 13, 2022

24.8 nm
Day 1177 ‐ Aug 12, 2022

24.2 nm
Day 1176 ‐ Aug 11, 2022
Day 1175 ‐ Aug 10, 2022

21.2 nm

Western Penobscot Bay
Day 1174 ‐ Aug 9, 2022
Day 1173 ‐ Aug 8, 2022

0.1 nm
Day 1172 ‐ Aug 7, 2022
Day 1171 ‐ Aug 6, 2022

29.9 nm
Day 1170 ‐ Aug 5, 2022
Day 1169 ‐ Aug 4, 2022
Day 1168 ‐ Aug 3, 2022

0.4 nm

Penobscot Bay - Dinghy Adventures

After Matt and Amy left, we decided to re-connect with Russ and Jax of InQuest, who were heading towards Penobscot Bay. We hadn't visited much in this area when we were in Maine before and we were onl...
Day 1167 ‐ Aug 2, 2022
Day 1166 ‐ Aug 1, 2022

17.6 nm
Day 1165 ‐ Jul 31, 2022

Boothbay and BAH HABAH with Mark and Robin

Northeast Harbor and more Acadia National Park

Sunset over Northeast Ha
Day 1164 ‐ Jul 30, 2022

24.9 nm

Maine without Fog
Day 1163 ‐ Jul 29, 2022
Day 1162 ‐ Jul 28, 2022

5.4 nm
Day 1161 ‐ Jul 27, 2022

2.6 nm
Day 1160 ‐ Jul 26, 2022

24.7 nm
Day 1159 ‐ Jul 25, 2022
Day 1158 ‐ Jul 24, 2022

0.4 nm
Day 1157 ‐ Jul 23, 2022
Day 1156 ‐ Jul 22, 2022
Day 1155 ‐ Jul 21, 2022

2.3 nm
Day 1154 ‐ Jul 20, 2022
Day 1153 ‐ Jul 19, 2022
Day 1152 ‐ Jul 18, 2022

13.3 nm

Fourth of July in Boston

After finishing work on Friday, we met up with Russ and Jax at a nearby brewery and another Endeavour-owning couple whose boat is named Bella Gato. After dinner back on the boat, I decided that I want...
Day 1151 ‐ Jul 17, 2022

Eastern Long Island Sound

The next morning, we headed out of Coecles and travelled to Newport.
Day 1150 ‐ Jul 16, 2022
Day 1149 ‐ Jul 15, 2022

44.6 nm
Day 1148 ‐ Jul 14, 2022

48 nm
Day 1147 ‐ Jul 13, 2022

0.3 nm
Day 1146 ‐ Jul 12, 2022
Day 1145 ‐ Jul 11, 2022
Day 1144 ‐ Jul 10, 2022

37.1 nm
Day 1143 ‐ Jul 9, 2022
Day 1142 ‐ Jul 8, 2022
Day 1141 ‐ Jul 7, 2022

53.8 nm
Day 1140 ‐ Jul 6, 2022
Day 1139 ‐ Jul 5, 2022

65.7 nm
Day 1138 ‐ Jul 4, 2022
Day 1137 ‐ Jul 3, 2022
Day 1136 ‐ Jul 2, 2022
Day 1135 ‐ Jul 1, 2022

9.7 nm
Day 1134 ‐ Jun 30, 2022

15.8 nm
Day 1133 ‐ Jun 29, 2022

40.5 nm
Day 1132 ‐ Jun 28, 2022

23 nm
Day 1131 ‐ Jun 27, 2022

38.3 nm

Connecticut, Family, and Long Island Sound

For the Memorial Day weekend, we had made perfect timing to be able to spend it with David's family in Rowayton, and we arrived there on Friday. On Saturday, we were welcomed by John and Joan and had...
Day 1130 ‐ Jun 26, 2022

61.8 nm

Atlantic City and New York

With the Platform secured, and a favorable 2-day weather window, we woke up early and began the first leg of the journey to New York, which is down the Delaware River. Last year, we went from Chesapea...
Day 1129 ‐ Jun 25, 2022

7.9 nm
Day 1128 ‐ Jun 24, 2022
Day 1127 ‐ Jun 23, 2022
Day 1126 ‐ Jun 22, 2022
Day 1125 ‐ Jun 21, 2022
Day 1124 ‐ Jun 20, 2022

75.1 nm
Day 1123 ‐ Jun 19, 2022
Day 1122 ‐ Jun 18, 2022

25.2 nm
Day 1121 ‐ Jun 17, 2022

4.2 nm
Day 1120 ‐ Jun 16, 2022

17.9 nm
Day 1119 ‐ Jun 15, 2022
Day 1118 ‐ Jun 14, 2022
Day 1117 ‐ Jun 13, 2022
Day 1116 ‐ Jun 12, 2022

2.2 nm

Baby on Board

Brent, Mary, and baby Ember joined us in the afternoon on Saturday. Since this was our first time with a baby on board, we weren't sure exactly how everything would work out, but it turned out her tra...
Day 1115 ‐ Jun 11, 2022

101.7 nm

The Covid Black Hole
Day 1114 ‐ Jun 10, 2022

104.2 nm
Day 1113 ‐ Jun 9, 2022

16.2 nm
Day 1112 ‐ Jun 8, 2022

21 nm
Day 1111 ‐ Jun 7, 2022

40.5 nm
Day 1110 ‐ Jun 6, 2022

42.3 nm
Day 1109 ‐ Jun 5, 2022

26.4 nm
Day 1108 ‐ Jun 4, 2022
Day 1107 ‐ Jun 3, 2022
Day 1106 ‐ Jun 2, 2022

20.6 nm
Day 1105 ‐ Jun 1, 2022

6.7 nm
Day 1104 ‐ May 31, 2022

14 nm
Day 1103 ‐ May 30, 2022

37 nm
Day 1102 ‐ May 29, 2022
Day 1101 ‐ May 28, 2022
Day 1100 ‐ May 27, 2022

45.7 nm

Seattle, A Wedding, and Covid Strikes
Day 1099 ‐ May 26, 2022

24.9 nm

North Carolina - Myrtle Beach
Day 1098 ‐ May 25, 2022
Day 1097 ‐ May 24, 2022

35.7 nm
Day 1096 ‐ May 23, 2022

26.8 nm
Day 1095 ‐ May 22, 2022

25 nm
Day 1094 ‐ May 21, 2022

167 nm

Charleston
Day 1093 ‐ May 20, 2022

41.2 nm
Day 1092 ‐ May 19, 2022

37.5 nm
Day 1091 ‐ May 18, 2022

46.9 nm
Day 1090 ‐ May 17, 2022
Day 1089 ‐ May 16, 2022
Day 1088 ‐ May 15, 2022
Day 1087 ‐ May 14, 2022
Day 1086 ‐ May 13, 2022
Day 1085 ‐ May 12, 2022
Day 1084 ‐ May 11, 2022
Day 1083 ‐ May 10, 2022
Day 1082 ‐ May 9, 2022
Day 1081 ‐ May 8, 2022
Day 1080 ‐ May 7, 2022

42.4 nm
Day 1079 ‐ May 6, 2022
Day 1078 ‐ May 5, 2022

16.4 nm
Day 1077 ‐ May 4, 2022

13.8 nm
Day 1076 ‐ May 3, 2022

44.3 nm
Day 1075 ‐ May 2, 2022

33 nm

Hellish Experience at Hinckley Stuart
Day 1074 ‐ May 1, 2022

Northern Florida

After a month away from the boat and a few weeks of visiting with people, David and I decided that we would spend the next week on anchor as we made our way north to St. Augustine. This we did, with v...
Day 1073 ‐ Apr 30, 2022

Cocoa and Disney

After Mark and Robin left, we remained at Cocoa in order to visit with Sara, a Seattle friend who was in the area with her partner, Drake, for a work trip. In addition, a mutual friend of ours, Bethy,...
Day 1072 ‐ Apr 29, 2022

32.3 nm
Day 1071 ‐ Apr 28, 2022

53.4 nm
Day 1070 ‐ Apr 27, 2022

68.5 nm
Day 1069 ‐ Apr 26, 2022

21.1 nm
Day 1068 ‐ Apr 25, 2022

6.7 nm
Day 1067 ‐ Apr 24, 2022

95.4 nm
Day 1066 ‐ Apr 23, 2022
Day 1065 ‐ Apr 22, 2022
Day 1064 ‐ Apr 21, 2022

23.3 nm
Day 1063 ‐ Apr 20, 2022

26.5 nm
Day 1062 ‐ Apr 19, 2022

18.3 nm
Day 1061 ‐ Apr 18, 2022

49.8 nm
Day 1060 ‐ Apr 17, 2022
Day 1059 ‐ Apr 16, 2022
Day 1058 ‐ Apr 15, 2022
Day 1057 ‐ Apr 14, 2022
Day 1056 ‐ Apr 13, 2022

Boat Projects and the Space Coast
Day 1055 ‐ Apr 12, 2022
Day 1054 ‐ Apr 11, 2022
Day 1053 ‐ Apr 10, 2022
Day 1052 ‐ Apr 9, 2022
Day 1051 ‐ Apr 8, 2022
Day 1050 ‐ Apr 7, 2022
Day 1049 ‐ Apr 6, 2022

21.7 nm
Day 1048 ‐ Apr 5, 2022

Big Sky and Return to Florida

We arrived in Big Sky on Saturday afternoon only a little jet-lagged and hoping that David's curse would be lifted and that we'd see some new snow while we were there. Although we had planned to rest...
Day 1047 ‐ Apr 4, 2022

47.5 nm
Day 1046 ‐ Apr 3, 2022
Day 1045 ‐ Apr 2, 2022
Day 1044 ‐ Apr 1, 2022

27.7 nm
Day 1043 ‐ Mar 31, 2022
Day 1042 ‐ Mar 30, 2022
Day 1041 ‐ Mar 29, 2022

Prague

As we were about to try to fall asleep on the plane, the person in the row behind us told us that the Aurora was visible from the window. We opened our window to see the most amazing view of the light...
Day 1040 ‐ Mar 28, 2022

7.2 nm
Day 1039 ‐ Mar 27, 2022
Day 1038 ‐ Mar 26, 2022
Day 1037 ‐ Mar 25, 2022
Day 1036 ‐ Mar 24, 2022
Day 1035 ‐ Mar 23, 2022
Day 1034 ‐ Mar 22, 2022
Day 1033 ‐ Mar 21, 2022
Day 1032 ‐ Mar 20, 2022

NYC and Seattle

First on our travel itinerary was New York - a work trip for me. We were holding an Employee Appreciation Conference where we flew in the entire team from around the country for the first real in-pers...
Day 1031 ‐ Mar 19, 2022
Day 1030 ‐ Mar 18, 2022

Returning to the US, Miami Boat Show and Stuart

David spent the remainder of our time in Bimini working on a few other boat projects including installing a light fixture over the island in the kitchen and a new Sirius weather receiver on our antenn...
Day 1029 ‐ Mar 17, 2022
Day 1028 ‐ Mar 16, 2022
Day 1027 ‐ Mar 15, 2022
Day 1026 ‐ Mar 14, 2022
Day 1025 ‐ Mar 13, 2022
Day 1024 ‐ Mar 12, 2022
Day 1023 ‐ Mar 11, 2022
Day 1022 ‐ Mar 10, 2022
Day 1021 ‐ Mar 9, 2022
Day 1020 ‐ Mar 8, 2022
Day 1019 ‐ Mar 7, 2022
Day 1018 ‐ Mar 6, 2022
Day 1017 ‐ Mar 5, 2022
Day 1016 ‐ Mar 4, 2022
Day 1015 ‐ Mar 3, 2022
Day 1014 ‐ Mar 2, 2022
Day 1013 ‐ Mar 1, 2022
Day 1012 ‐ Feb 28, 2022
Day 1011 ‐ Feb 27, 2022
Day 1010 ‐ Feb 26, 2022
Day 1009 ‐ Feb 25, 2022

0.1 nm
Day 1008 ‐ Feb 24, 2022

1.3 nm
Day 1007 ‐ Feb 23, 2022
Day 1006 ‐ Feb 22, 2022

5.7 nm

The Bahamas with Matthew
Day 1005 ‐ Feb 21, 2022
Day 1004 ‐ Feb 20, 2022

Adventures at Key Biscayne Yacht Club / Preparing for the Bahamas
Day 1003 ‐ Feb 19, 2022
Day 1002 ‐ Feb 18, 2022

118.2 nm

Anchoring in the Keys
Day 1001 ‐ Feb 17, 2022

Fixing Leaks
Day 1000 ‐ Feb 16, 2022
Day 999 ‐ Feb 15, 2022
Day 998 ‐ Feb 14, 2022
Day 997 ‐ Feb 13, 2022

12.1 nm
Day 996 ‐ Feb 12, 2022

79 nm
Day 995 ‐ Feb 11, 2022

99.3 nm
Day 994 ‐ Feb 10, 2022
Day 993 ‐ Feb 9, 2022

13.8 nm
Day 992 ‐ Feb 8, 2022

18.5 nm
Day 991 ‐ Feb 7, 2022

0.5 nm
Day 990 ‐ Feb 6, 2022
Day 989 ‐ Feb 5, 2022

2 nm
Day 988 ‐ Feb 4, 2022
Day 987 ‐ Feb 3, 2022
Day 986 ‐ Feb 2, 2022
Day 985 ‐ Feb 1, 2022

33.6 nm
Day 984 ‐ Jan 31, 2022

22 nm
Day 983 ‐ Jan 30, 2022
Day 982 ‐ Jan 29, 2022
Day 981 ‐ Jan 28, 2022

71 nm

Key West
Day 980 ‐ Jan 27, 2022
Day 979 ‐ Jan 26, 2022
Day 978 ‐ Jan 25, 2022
Day 977 ‐ Jan 24, 2022
Day 976 ‐ Jan 23, 2022

31.9 nm
Day 975 ‐ Jan 22, 2022

0.1 nm

Crossing Our Wake

After New Year, a wind storm was predicted for the next couple of days, so we stayed put on our friends dock and set sail later in the week when everything was calmer. We spent one night on anchor (wh...
Day 974 ‐ Jan 21, 2022
Day 973 ‐ Jan 20, 2022
Day 972 ‐ Jan 19, 2022
Day 971 ‐ Jan 18, 2022
Day 970 ‐ Jan 17, 2022
Day 969 ‐ Jan 16, 2022
Day 968 ‐ Jan 15, 2022
Day 967 ‐ Jan 14, 2022
Day 966 ‐ Jan 13, 2022

0.1 nm
Day 965 ‐ Jan 12, 2022
Day 964 ‐ Jan 11, 2022
Day 963 ‐ Jan 10, 2022
Day 962 ‐ Jan 9, 2022
Day 961 ‐ Jan 8, 2022
Day 960 ‐ Jan 7, 2022

138 nm
Day 959 ‐ Jan 6, 2022

14.9 nm

New Year in Ft Meyers

We had been told that the boat yard would be closed for the week between Christmas and New Year. Even though we technically weren't supposed to be living aboard, we spent the night on the dock and sle...
Day 958 ‐ Jan 5, 2022

Christmas in Seattle and Big Sky
Day 957 ‐ Jan 4, 2022

8.4 nm

Gulf Crossing to Clearwater

We woke up while it was completely dark, but were glad that we had decided to anchor in the open ocean, since all we needed to do was pull anchor and point the boat towards Clearwater. We did not need...
Day 956 ‐ Jan 3, 2022
Day 955 ‐ Jan 2, 2022
Day 954 ‐ Jan 1, 2022
Day 953 ‐ Dec 31, 2021
Day 952 ‐ Dec 30, 2021

47.5 nm
Day 951 ‐ Dec 29, 2021

21.3 nm
Day 950 ‐ Dec 28, 2021

21.4 nm
Day 949 ‐ Dec 27, 2021
Day 948 ‐ Dec 26, 2021

20.3 nm

Return to Florida

Highwind underway captured by a Looper we passed After leaving Mobile, we h
Day 932 ‐ Dec 10, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 931 ‐ Dec 9, 2021

25.5 nm
Day 930 ‐ Dec 8, 2021

14.5 nm
Day 929 ‐ Dec 7, 2021
Day 928 ‐ Dec 6, 2021
Day 927 ‐ Dec 5, 2021

179.7 nm

Thanksgiving in New Orleans
Day 926 ‐ Dec 4, 2021

110.7 nm

Demopolis and Bilges
Day 925 ‐ Dec 3, 2021

51.8 nm
Day 924 ‐ Dec 2, 2021

27.8 nm
Day 923 ‐ Dec 1, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 922 ‐ Nov 30, 2021

51.5 nm
Day 921 ‐ Nov 29, 2021
Day 920 ‐ Nov 28, 2021

0.4 nm
Day 919 ‐ Nov 27, 2021
Day 918 ‐ Nov 26, 2021
Day 917 ‐ Nov 25, 2021
Day 916 ‐ Nov 24, 2021
Day 915 ‐ Nov 23, 2021
Day 914 ‐ Nov 22, 2021

13.2 nm
Day 913 ‐ Nov 21, 2021

51.1 nm
Day 912 ‐ Nov 20, 2021

125.4 nm
Day 911 ‐ Nov 19, 2021
Day 910 ‐ Nov 18, 2021
Day 909 ‐ Nov 17, 2021
Day 908 ‐ Nov 16, 2021
Day 907 ‐ Nov 15, 2021

More of the Same: Inland Rivers and Fall Foliage
Day 906 ‐ Nov 14, 2021

101.1 nm
Day 905 ‐ Nov 13, 2021

79 nm
Day 904 ‐ Nov 12, 2021

34.4 nm
Day 903 ‐ Nov 11, 2021

44.1 nm
Day 902 ‐ Nov 10, 2021

14.4 nm
Day 901 ‐ Nov 9, 2021
Day 900 ‐ Nov 8, 2021

The Tennessee River
Day 899 ‐ Nov 7, 2021

90.5 nm

A Weekend in Nashville
Day 898 ‐ Nov 6, 2021

36.9 nm
Day 897 ‐ Nov 5, 2021
Day 896 ‐ Nov 4, 2021
Day 895 ‐ Nov 3, 2021
Day 894 ‐ Nov 2, 2021

42.3 nm

Mississippi and Ohio Rivers with Crew!
Day 893 ‐ Nov 1, 2021

A Week in Prague
Day 892 ‐ Oct 31, 2021
Day 891 ‐ Oct 30, 2021
Day 890 ‐ Oct 29, 2021
Day 889 ‐ Oct 28, 2021

91.7 nm
Day 888 ‐ Oct 27, 2021

107.8 nm
Day 887 ‐ Oct 26, 2021

42.1 nm

Cruising the Illinois River
Day 886 ‐ Oct 25, 2021
Day 885 ‐ Oct 24, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 884 ‐ Oct 23, 2021

0.3 nm
Day 883 ‐ Oct 22, 2021
Day 882 ‐ Oct 21, 2021
Day 881 ‐ Oct 20, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 880 ‐ Oct 19, 2021
Day 879 ‐ Oct 18, 2021
Day 878 ‐ Oct 17, 2021

0.1 nm

Chicago and the Chicago Sanitation Waterway
Day 877 ‐ Oct 16, 2021
Day 876 ‐ Oct 15, 2021
Day 875 ‐ Oct 14, 2021

15.7 nm
Day 874 ‐ Oct 13, 2021
Day 873 ‐ Oct 12, 2021
Day 872 ‐ Oct 11, 2021
Day 871 ‐ Oct 10, 2021

59.3 nm
Day 870 ‐ Oct 9, 2021

126.5 nm
Day 869 ‐ Oct 8, 2021

46.7 nm
Day 868 ‐ Oct 7, 2021

30.4 nm
Day 867 ‐ Oct 6, 2021

50.5 nm

On the Hard in Grand Haven
Day 866 ‐ Oct 5, 2021
Day 865 ‐ Oct 4, 2021
Day 864 ‐ Oct 3, 2021
Day 863 ‐ Oct 2, 2021
Day 862 ‐ Oct 1, 2021
Day 861 ‐ Sep 30, 2021

38.2 nm
Day 860 ‐ Sep 29, 2021

35.3 nm
Day 859 ‐ Sep 28, 2021

68.4 nm
Day 858 ‐ Sep 27, 2021

1.9 nm
Day 857 ‐ Sep 26, 2021
Day 856 ‐ Sep 25, 2021
Day 855 ‐ Sep 24, 2021
Day 854 ‐ Sep 23, 2021
Day 853 ‐ Sep 22, 2021
Day 852 ‐ Sep 21, 2021
Day 851 ‐ Sep 20, 2021
Day 850 ‐ Sep 19, 2021

69.8 nm
Day 849 ‐ Sep 18, 2021

90.3 nm

North Lake Michigan and Engine Trouble
Day 848 ‐ Sep 17, 2021
Day 847 ‐ Sep 16, 2021

34.8 nm
Day 846 ‐ Sep 15, 2021

The North Channel and Sault Ste Marie
Day 845 ‐ Sep 14, 2021
Day 844 ‐ Sep 13, 2021
Day 843 ‐ Sep 12, 2021

The Georgian Bay
Day 842 ‐ Sep 11, 2021
Day 841 ‐ Sep 10, 2021
Day 840 ‐ Sep 9, 2021

57.9 nm
Day 839 ‐ Sep 8, 2021
Day 838 ‐ Sep 7, 2021
Day 837 ‐ Sep 6, 2021
Day 836 ‐ Sep 5, 2021

82 nm
Day 835 ‐ Sep 4, 2021
Day 834 ‐ Sep 3, 2021

91.7 nm
Day 833 ‐ Sep 2, 2021

20.9 nm

The Trent-Severn Waterway
Day 832 ‐ Sep 1, 2021
Day 831 ‐ Aug 31, 2021

18.1 nm
Day 830 ‐ Aug 30, 2021
Day 829 ‐ Aug 29, 2021

20.7 nm
Day 828 ‐ Aug 28, 2021

33.6 nm
Day 827 ‐ Aug 27, 2021

46.7 nm
Day 826 ‐ Aug 26, 2021

30.2 nm
Day 825 ‐ Aug 25, 2021

44.8 nm
Day 824 ‐ Aug 24, 2021

52.5 nm
Day 823 ‐ Aug 23, 2021
Day 822 ‐ Aug 22, 2021

37.2 nm
Day 821 ‐ Aug 21, 2021

50.8 nm

Erie and Oswego Canals

Upon returning to the East Coast, we spent the day visiting Kingston, which we hadn't had the chance to do before we left for Seattle. We visited the maritime museum, which discussed the ecological im...
Day 820 ‐ Aug 20, 2021

20 nm
Day 819 ‐ Aug 19, 2021

44.6 nm
Day 818 ‐ Aug 18, 2021

25.9 nm
Day 817 ‐ Aug 17, 2021

13.9 nm
Day 816 ‐ Aug 16, 2021

82 nm
Day 815 ‐ Aug 15, 2021
Day 814 ‐ Aug 14, 2021

31.7 nm
Day 813 ‐ Aug 13, 2021

35.4 nm
Day 812 ‐ Aug 12, 2021

25.8 nm
Day 811 ‐ Aug 11, 2021

23.9 nm

A Week In Seattle
Day 810 ‐ Aug 10, 2021

40.1 nm
Day 809 ‐ Aug 9, 2021

19.4 nm
Day 808 ‐ Aug 8, 2021

65.7 nm
Day 807 ‐ Aug 7, 2021
Day 806 ‐ Aug 6, 2021

0.3 nm
Day 805 ‐ Aug 5, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 804 ‐ Aug 4, 2021

New York City and the Hudson
Day 803 ‐ Aug 3, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 802 ‐ Aug 2, 2021
Day 801 ‐ Aug 1, 2021
Day 800 ‐ Jul 31, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 799 ‐ Jul 30, 2021
Day 798 ‐ Jul 29, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 797 ‐ Jul 28, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 796 ‐ Jul 27, 2021

0.3 nm
Day 795 ‐ Jul 26, 2021

55.7 nm
Day 794 ‐ Jul 25, 2021

37.8 nm
Day 793 ‐ Jul 24, 2021

1.1 nm
Day 792 ‐ Jul 23, 2021

1.4 nm
Day 791 ‐ Jul 22, 2021

17.7 nm
Day 790 ‐ Jul 21, 2021

40.9 nm
Day 789 ‐ Jul 20, 2021
Day 788 ‐ Jul 19, 2021

Friends and Family in Long Island Sound
Day 787 ‐ Jul 18, 2021

58.7 nm
Day 786 ‐ Jul 17, 2021

25.8 nm
Day 785 ‐ Jul 16, 2021

29.9 nm
Day 784 ‐ Jul 15, 2021

45.1 nm

Fun 4th On the Chesapeake
Day 783 ‐ Jul 14, 2021

39.7 nm
Day 782 ‐ Jul 13, 2021
Day 781 ‐ Jul 12, 2021
Day 780 ‐ Jul 11, 2021

42.5 nm
Day 779 ‐ Jul 10, 2021

211.8 nm
Day 778 ‐ Jul 9, 2021

20.4 nm
Day 777 ‐ Jul 8, 2021

35.7 nm
Day 776 ‐ Jul 7, 2021

20 nm
Day 775 ‐ Jul 6, 2021
Day 774 ‐ Jul 5, 2021

26.7 nm

Waiting in Deltaville
Day 773 ‐ Jul 4, 2021
Day 772 ‐ Jul 3, 2021

52.7 nm
Day 771 ‐ Jul 2, 2021

65.7 nm
Day 770 ‐ Jul 1, 2021

34.7 nm
Day 769 ‐ Jun 30, 2021
Day 768 ‐ Jun 29, 2021
Day 767 ‐ Jun 28, 2021
Day 766 ‐ Jun 27, 2021
Day 765 ‐ Jun 26, 2021
Day 764 ‐ Jun 25, 2021
Day 763 ‐ Jun 24, 2021
Day 762 ‐ Jun 23, 2021
Day 761 ‐ Jun 22, 2021
Day 760 ‐ Jun 21, 2021
Day 759 ‐ Jun 20, 2021
Day 758 ‐ Jun 19, 2021
Day 757 ‐ Jun 18, 2021
Day 756 ‐ Jun 17, 2021
Day 755 ‐ Jun 16, 2021
Day 754 ‐ Jun 15, 2021
Day 753 ‐ Jun 14, 2021
Day 752 ‐ Jun 13, 2021

0.1 nm

Back In The Water

Deltaville & Seattle

After spending a great weekend in Norfolk, we started thinking about our plans for heading north and the Chesapeake. Our shaft seal on the port side had started leaking again, so we knew that we neede...
Day 723 ‐ May 15, 2021
Day 722 ‐ May 14, 2021

8.2 nm
Day 721 ‐ May 13, 2021

42.4 nm
Day 720 ‐ May 12, 2021
Day 719 ‐ May 11, 2021

12.4 nm
Day 718 ‐ May 10, 2021

Coinjock & Norfolk

You know you are in Norfolk when you see two aircraft carriers docked n
Day 717 ‐ May 9, 2021
Day 716 ‐ May 8, 2021

46.6 nm
Day 715 ‐ May 7, 2021

80.6 nm

Quite a Lot of Places
Day 714 ‐ May 6, 2021

23.8 nm
Day 713 ‐ May 5, 2021

23.3 nm
Day 712 ‐ May 4, 2021

22.1 nm
Day 711 ‐ May 3, 2021

27.4 nm
Day 710 ‐ May 2, 2021
Day 709 ‐ May 1, 2021

37.4 nm
Day 708 ‐ Apr 30, 2021

19.3 nm
Day 707 ‐ Apr 29, 2021

1.2 nm
Day 706 ‐ Apr 28, 2021
Day 705 ‐ Apr 27, 2021

1.2 nm
Day 704 ‐ Apr 26, 2021
Day 703 ‐ Apr 25, 2021

32 nm
Day 702 ‐ Apr 24, 2021
Day 701 ‐ Apr 23, 2021

20.1 nm
Day 700 ‐ Apr 22, 2021

22.2 nm
Day 699 ‐ Apr 21, 2021

16.8 nm
Day 698 ‐ Apr 20, 2021

All of Georgia and Charleston
Day 697 ‐ Apr 19, 2021

19.9 nm
Day 696 ‐ Apr 18, 2021

68.9 nm
Day 695 ‐ Apr 17, 2021
Day 694 ‐ Apr 16, 2021

48V Lithium Power System

Note: This post has been superceded by an extensive newer post going into the details as the system has evolved over time.
Day 693 ‐ Apr 15, 2021
Day 692 ‐ Apr 14, 2021

6.5 nm
Day 691 ‐ Apr 13, 2021

0.1 nm
Day 690 ‐ Apr 12, 2021

0.2 nm
Day 689 ‐ Apr 11, 2021

114 nm
Day 688 ‐ Apr 10, 2021

27.2 nm
Day 687 ‐ Apr 9, 2021

82 nm
Day 686 ‐ Apr 8, 2021

28.2 nm
Day 685 ‐ Apr 7, 2021

29.6 nm
Day 684 ‐ Apr 6, 2021
Day 683 ‐ Apr 5, 2021

Leaving Cocoa, New Smyrna Beach and St. Augustine
Day 682 ‐ Apr 4, 2021
Day 681 ‐ Apr 3, 2021

Folding Instrument Tower
Day 680 ‐ Apr 2, 2021

New Water System
Day 679 ‐ Apr 1, 2021
Day 678 ‐ Mar 31, 2021
Day 677 ‐ Mar 30, 2021

23.5 nm
Day 676 ‐ Mar 29, 2021
Day 675 ‐ Mar 28, 2021

40.8 nm
Day 674 ‐ Mar 27, 2021

52.8 nm
Day 673 ‐ Mar 26, 2021
Day 672 ‐ Mar 25, 2021

Finally, a Launch!
Day 671 ‐ Mar 24, 2021
Day 670 ‐ Mar 23, 2021
Day 669 ‐ Mar 22, 2021
Day 668 ‐ Mar 21, 2021
Day 667 ‐ Mar 20, 2021

Looooong Month of Projects
Day 666 ‐ Mar 19, 2021
Day 665 ‐ Mar 18, 2021
Day 664 ‐ Mar 17, 2021
Day 663 ‐ Mar 16, 2021
Day 662 ‐ Mar 15, 2021
Day 661 ‐ Mar 14, 2021
Day 660 ‐ Mar 13, 2021
Day 659 ‐ Mar 12, 2021
Day 658 ‐ Mar 11, 2021
Day 657 ‐ Mar 10, 2021
Day 656 ‐ Mar 9, 2021
Day 655 ‐ Mar 8, 2021
Day 654 ‐ Mar 7, 2021
Day 653 ‐ Mar 6, 2021
Day 652 ‐ Mar 5, 2021
Day 651 ‐ Mar 4, 2021
Day 650 ‐ Mar 3, 2021
Day 649 ‐ Mar 2, 2021
Day 648 ‐ Mar 1, 2021
Day 647 ‐ Feb 28, 2021
Day 646 ‐ Feb 27, 2021
Day 645 ‐ Feb 26, 2021
Day 644 ‐ Feb 25, 2021

Projecting in Cocoa Village
Day 643 ‐ Feb 24, 2021
Day 642 ‐ Feb 23, 2021
Day 641 ‐ Feb 22, 2021
Day 640 ‐ Feb 21, 2021
Day 639 ‐ Feb 20, 2021
Day 638 ‐ Feb 19, 2021
Day 637 ‐ Feb 18, 2021
Day 636 ‐ Feb 17, 2021
Day 635 ‐ Feb 16, 2021

68.1 nm
Day 634 ‐ Feb 15, 2021
Day 633 ‐ Feb 14, 2021
Day 632 ‐ Feb 13, 2021
Day 631 ‐ Feb 12, 2021
Day 630 ‐ Feb 11, 2021
Day 629 ‐ Feb 10, 2021
Day 628 ‐ Feb 9, 2021
Day 627 ‐ Feb 8, 2021

0.8 nm
Day 626 ‐ Feb 7, 2021

Final Week in Key Largo and Moving Onto Highwind II

We spent the last week in Key Largo in the house surrounded by boxes full of our things, but it was a nice relaxing time. The sun came out for long enough that we w even found a moment for a dip in th...
Day 625 ‐ Feb 6, 2021

Third Bedroom Office Conversion

We've been remiss in writing a new blog post. We'll get on that. In the meantime, I wanted to share one of the bigger projects we're already undertaking on the new boat.
Day 624 ‐ Feb 5, 2021
Day 623 ‐ Feb 4, 2021

23.4 nm
Day 622 ‐ Feb 3, 2021

7.3 nm
Day 621 ‐ Feb 2, 2021
Day 620 ‐ Feb 1, 2021
Day 611 ‐ Jan 23, 2021

76.2 nm

Key Largo and a New Boat

After our lovely new year's eve on Key Biscayne, we had a pretty uneventful cruise over to the house on Key Largo. On advice from some other boaters the previous week, we took the Angelfish Creek cut...
Day 604 ‐ Jan 16, 2021

Key West and Marquesas Keys

Marquesas Key When originally planning our stay in th
Day 603 ‐ Jan 15, 2021
Day 602 ‐ Jan 14, 2021
Day 601 ‐ Jan 13, 2021
Day 600 ‐ Jan 12, 2021
Day 599 ‐ Jan 11, 2021
Day 598 ‐ Jan 10, 2021
Day 597 ‐ Jan 9, 2021
Day 596 ‐ Jan 8, 2021
Day 595 ‐ Jan 7, 2021
Day 594 ‐ Jan 6, 2021
Day 593 ‐ Jan 5, 2021
Day 592 ‐ Jan 4, 2021
Day 591 ‐ Jan 3, 2021

Sea Trials, Highwind Adrift, Miami and New Year - Quite the Week

After Chrismas our plan was to spend the next week in the Ft Lauderdale area. We had managed to confirm an engine survey, hull survey, and sea trial for the new boat in the week between Christmas and...
Day 590 ‐ Jan 2, 2021

Stuart to Ft Lauderdale, Christmas on Highwind
Day 589 ‐ Jan 1, 2021

49.8 nm
Day 588 ‐ Dec 31, 2020

31.1 nm
Day 587 ‐ Dec 30, 2020

0.2 nm
Day 586 ‐ Dec 29, 2020
Day 585 ‐ Dec 28, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 584 ‐ Dec 27, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 583 ‐ Dec 26, 2020

0.4 nm
Day 582 ‐ Dec 25, 2020

0.3 nm
Day 581 ‐ Dec 24, 2020

47.8 nm
Day 580 ‐ Dec 23, 2020

17.2 nm
Day 579 ‐ Dec 22, 2020

16.5 nm
Day 578 ‐ Dec 21, 2020
Day 577 ‐ Dec 20, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 576 ‐ Dec 19, 2020
Day 575 ‐ Dec 18, 2020

3.2 nm

Daytona Beach, Anchoring, Fort Pierce & Stuart

After St Augustine, we headed to Daytona beach, and dropped anchor in a spot just off the ICW. Unfortunately, we were spending only one night here, on a week day, and the weather was starting to get a...
Day 574 ‐ Dec 17, 2020

0.5 nm
Day 573 ‐ Dec 16, 2020

4.5 nm
Day 572 ‐ Dec 15, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 571 ‐ Dec 14, 2020

23.8 nm
Day 570 ‐ Dec 13, 2020
Day 569 ‐ Dec 12, 2020

40.7 nm
Day 568 ‐ Dec 11, 2020
Day 567 ‐ Dec 10, 2020
Day 566 ‐ Dec 9, 2020

11.3 nm
Day 565 ‐ Dec 8, 2020

0.2 nm
Day 564 ‐ Dec 7, 2020

36.4 nm
Day 563 ‐ Dec 6, 2020

48.7 nm

Jacksonville Beach and St Augustine

As we pulled out of the south end of Dunbar creek and rounded the southern tip of St Simons Island, we drove very close to the salvage area and got an even closer view of the overturned ship.
Day 562 ‐ Dec 5, 2020

49.9 nm

Thanksgiving on St Simons Island

Dunbar Creek by drone , Highwind moored bottom left
Day 561 ‐ Dec 4, 2020

0.8 nm
Day 560 ‐ Dec 3, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 559 ‐ Dec 2, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 558 ‐ Dec 1, 2020

32.9 nm

New Internet Setup

NOTE: This post has been left for posterity, but there's an updated internet setup post for 2023. If you're arriving here from a link, you probably want to skip to the newer stuff. Warning: Nerdy info...
Day 557 ‐ Nov 30, 2020

0.3 nm
Day 556 ‐ Nov 29, 2020

73.3 nm
Day 555 ‐ Nov 28, 2020
Day 554 ‐ Nov 27, 2020
Day 553 ‐ Nov 26, 2020
Day 552 ‐ Nov 25, 2020
Day 551 ‐ Nov 24, 2020
Day 550 ‐ Nov 23, 2020
Day 549 ‐ Nov 22, 2020

17.8 nm
Day 548 ‐ Nov 21, 2020

37.6 nm

Beaufort, Savannah and Sunbury

Sunset after the storm Since the weather was pretty dre
Day 547 ‐ Nov 20, 2020
Day 546 ‐ Nov 19, 2020
Day 545 ‐ Nov 18, 2020

18 nm
Day 544 ‐ Nov 17, 2020

12.8 nm
Day 543 ‐ Nov 16, 2020

22.8 nm
Day 542 ‐ Nov 15, 2020
Day 541 ‐ Nov 14, 2020

45.8 nm
Day 540 ‐ Nov 13, 2020
Day 539 ‐ Nov 12, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 538 ‐ Nov 11, 2020

29 nm
Day 537 ‐ Nov 10, 2020

15.8 nm
Day 536 ‐ Nov 9, 2020

20.5 nm
Day 535 ‐ Nov 8, 2020

Charleston and the Election

Sunset over McClellanville Zeta ended up not being
Day 534 ‐ Nov 7, 2020
Day 533 ‐ Nov 6, 2020

31.8 nm
Day 532 ‐ Nov 5, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 531 ‐ Nov 4, 2020
Day 530 ‐ Nov 3, 2020

6 nm
Day 529 ‐ Nov 2, 2020
Day 528 ‐ Nov 1, 2020

47.6 nm
Day 527 ‐ Oct 31, 2020

64.2 nm

North Carolina
Day 526 ‐ Oct 30, 2020
Day 525 ‐ Oct 29, 2020

111.3 nm
Day 518 ‐ Oct 22, 2020

45.8 nm
Day 517 ‐ Oct 21, 2020

10.6 nm
Day 516 ‐ Oct 20, 2020

47.1 nm
Day 515 ‐ Oct 19, 2020

33.6 nm
Day 514 ‐ Oct 18, 2020

58.5 nm

Solomon's and Speeding Down the Rest of the Chesapeake

Our anchorage for several days of wind/rain on the Great Wicomico River
Day 513 ‐ Oct 17, 2020

63.6 nm
Day 512 ‐ Oct 16, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 511 ‐ Oct 15, 2020
Day 510 ‐ Oct 14, 2020

46.9 nm
Day 509 ‐ Oct 13, 2020
Day 508 ‐ Oct 12, 2020

2.2 nm
Day 507 ‐ Oct 11, 2020

27.6 nm
Day 506 ‐ Oct 10, 2020

45.1 nm

Fleeing Fall

It's only been a week since the last post, but we've clicked off nearly a quarter of the east coast in that time. With how long we lingered up north, and fall rapidly approaching, the weather has been...
Day 505 ‐ Oct 9, 2020

21.3 nm
Day 504 ‐ Oct 8, 2020
Day 503 ‐ Oct 7, 2020
Day 502 ‐ Oct 6, 2020

22.6 nm
Day 501 ‐ Oct 5, 2020

25.7 nm
Day 500 ‐ Oct 4, 2020

71.3 nm
Day 499 ‐ Oct 3, 2020

126.5 nm

Rowayton, NYC and the Jersey Shore
Day 498 ‐ Oct 2, 2020
Day 497 ‐ Oct 1, 2020

24.6 nm
Day 496 ‐ Sep 30, 2020

40.5 nm
Day 495 ‐ Sep 29, 2020
Day 494 ‐ Sep 28, 2020

A Lot of Wind; Long Island Sound (again)

Weather windows are becoming few and far between at this point, so we had a windy ride to our next destination - Cuddyhunk. In hind-sight, we probably should have given this spot a miss considering it...
Day 493 ‐ Sep 27, 2020

Boston!

After leaving Handy Boat, we headed back to Isle of Shoals for a night. It was a beautiful weekend day, so we were a bit nervous that there would not be an available mooring buoy for us to pick up, si...
Day 492 ‐ Sep 26, 2020
Day 491 ‐ Sep 25, 2020

79.6 nm
Day 488 ‐ Sep 22, 2020
Day 487 ‐ Sep 21, 2020

46 nm
Day 486 ‐ Sep 20, 2020
Day 485 ‐ Sep 19, 2020

35.4 nm
Day 484 ‐ Sep 18, 2020

21.7 nm
Day 483 ‐ Sep 17, 2020

49.3 nm
Day 482 ‐ Sep 16, 2020
Day 481 ‐ Sep 15, 2020

22.6 nm
Day 480 ‐ Sep 14, 2020

0.3 nm
Day 479 ‐ Sep 13, 2020

57.8 nm
Day 478 ‐ Sep 12, 2020

58.2 nm

Attack Sailboats, Electrical Fires, Old Forts, and More

Drone shot of Fort Gorges, one of the highlights of our Portland weekend
Day 473 ‐ Sep 7, 2020
Day 472 ‐ Sep 6, 2020
Day 471 ‐ Sep 5, 2020
Day 470 ‐ Sep 4, 2020

6.5 nm
Day 469 ‐ Sep 3, 2020
Day 468 ‐ Sep 2, 2020
Day 467 ‐ Sep 1, 2020

18 nm
Day 466 ‐ Aug 31, 2020

22.8 nm
Day 465 ‐ Aug 30, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 464 ‐ Aug 29, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 463 ‐ Aug 28, 2020
Day 462 ‐ Aug 27, 2020

16.7 nm
Day 461 ‐ Aug 26, 2020

18.1 nm
Day 460 ‐ Aug 25, 2020

0.3 nm

UPS is Bad at Delivering to a Marina
Day 459 ‐ Aug 24, 2020
Day 458 ‐ Aug 23, 2020

8.2 nm
Day 457 ‐ Aug 22, 2020

13.8 nm
Day 456 ‐ Aug 21, 2020
Day 455 ‐ Aug 20, 2020

19.8 nm

Making Water (Potable) and a Return to Somes Sound
Day 454 ‐ Aug 19, 2020

21.6 nm
Day 453 ‐ Aug 18, 2020
Day 452 ‐ Aug 17, 2020

2.7 nm
Day 451 ‐ Aug 16, 2020
Day 450 ‐ Aug 15, 2020
Day 449 ‐ Aug 14, 2020

2.9 nm
Day 448 ‐ Aug 13, 2020

Chilling Around Mt Desert Island
Day 447 ‐ Aug 12, 2020
Day 446 ‐ Aug 11, 2020

2.5 nm
Day 445 ‐ Aug 10, 2020
Day 444 ‐ Aug 9, 2020
Day 443 ‐ Aug 8, 2020
Day 442 ‐ Aug 7, 2020
Day 441 ‐ Aug 6, 2020

9.1 nm
Day 440 ‐ Aug 5, 2020
Day 439 ‐ Aug 4, 2020

17.4 nm
Day 438 ‐ Aug 3, 2020
Day 437 ‐ Aug 2, 2020
Day 436 ‐ Aug 1, 2020

36.1 nm
Day 435 ‐ Jul 31, 2020
Day 434 ‐ Jul 30, 2020

5.6 nm

Bar Harbor and Roque Island

Bar Harbor at sunset, with the "experience cruise" sailing ships coming in fo
Day 433 ‐ Jul 29, 2020
Day 432 ‐ Jul 28, 2020
Day 431 ‐ Jul 27, 2020
Day 430 ‐ Jul 26, 2020
Day 429 ‐ Jul 25, 2020

41.7 nm
Day 428 ‐ Jul 24, 2020
Day 427 ‐ Jul 23, 2020
Day 426 ‐ Jul 22, 2020
Day 425 ‐ Jul 21, 2020
Day 424 ‐ Jul 20, 2020

7.2 nm

Repairs and Acadia
Day 423 ‐ Jul 19, 2020
Day 422 ‐ Jul 18, 2020
Day 421 ‐ Jul 17, 2020

8.2 nm
Day 420 ‐ Jul 16, 2020

17.4 nm
Day 417 ‐ Jul 13, 2020
Day 416 ‐ Jul 12, 2020
Day 415 ‐ Jul 11, 2020
Day 414 ‐ Jul 10, 2020

More Fog and Finally Hauled Out!

Sunset from Beal's Lobster in Southwest Harbor The lack o
Day 413 ‐ Jul 9, 2020

0.3 nm
Day 412 ‐ Jul 8, 2020

0.4 nm
Day 411 ‐ Jul 7, 2020
Day 410 ‐ Jul 6, 2020
Day 409 ‐ Jul 5, 2020
Day 408 ‐ Jul 4, 2020

2.7 nm
Day 407 ‐ Jul 3, 2020
Day 406 ‐ Jul 2, 2020

45.7 nm
Day 405 ‐ Jul 1, 2020
Day 404 ‐ Jun 30, 2020
Day 403 ‐ Jun 29, 2020
Day 402 ‐ Jun 28, 2020
Day 401 ‐ Jun 27, 2020
Day 400 ‐ Jun 26, 2020

7.8 nm
Day 399 ‐ Jun 25, 2020

1.6 nm
Day 398 ‐ Jun 24, 2020

Maine is Foggy

Our view, almost every day Now that we have reached Maine,
Day 397 ‐ Jun 23, 2020

21.5 nm
Day 396 ‐ Jun 22, 2020
Day 395 ‐ Jun 21, 2020

8.1 nm
Day 394 ‐ Jun 20, 2020

22.7 nm
Day 393 ‐ Jun 19, 2020
Day 392 ‐ Jun 18, 2020
Day 391 ‐ Jun 17, 2020

24.6 nm
Day 390 ‐ Jun 16, 2020
Day 389 ‐ Jun 15, 2020

Maine!

A pretty old schooner welcomed us to Portland, ME Expec
Day 388 ‐ Jun 14, 2020

75.9 nm
Day 387 ‐ Jun 13, 2020
Day 386 ‐ Jun 12, 2020

55.6 nm
Day 385 ‐ Jun 11, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 384 ‐ Jun 10, 2020

0.3 nm
Day 383 ‐ Jun 9, 2020

51.5 nm
Day 382 ‐ Jun 8, 2020

0.8 nm

Starting a Side Trip to Maine

Hannah demonstrating the rapidly-extinguishing sunlight, and our questionable deci
Day 381 ‐ Jun 7, 2020

51.7 nm
Day 380 ‐ Jun 6, 2020

48.3 nm
Day 379 ‐ Jun 5, 2020
Day 378 ‐ Jun 4, 2020

44.6 nm
Day 377 ‐ Jun 3, 2020
Day 376 ‐ Jun 2, 2020

40.2 nm

Side Quest to Oyster Bay

John and Joan's sailboat Starlight at sunset at its mooring on Five Mile River
Day 375 ‐ Jun 1, 2020
Day 374 ‐ May 31, 2020

13 nm
Day 373 ‐ May 30, 2020

19.5 nm
Day 372 ‐ May 29, 2020
Day 371 ‐ May 28, 2020
Day 370 ‐ May 27, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 369 ‐ May 26, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 368 ‐ May 25, 2020

Open Water

Our 5 day stay in Delaware City waiting out tropical storm Arthur was uneventful, which is all one can hope of a week with a predicted storm. We pulled out Gloomhaven (board game) again, and otherwise...
Day 367 ‐ May 24, 2020

61 nm
Day 366 ‐ May 23, 2020

134.3 nm
Day 365 ‐ May 22, 2020

60.5 nm
Day 364 ‐ May 21, 2020

0.3 nm
Day 363 ‐ May 20, 2020
Day 362 ‐ May 19, 2020

Logistics: Waiting for Arthur

Late last week, my laptop had broken and decided to stop charging, so I'd been stuck
Day 361 ‐ May 18, 2020

0.4 nm

A Week With A Stowaway

Sunset dinghy ride on the Sassafras River The next day, ou
Day 360 ‐ May 17, 2020

15.4 nm
Day 359 ‐ May 16, 2020

0.3 nm
Day 358 ‐ May 15, 2020

19.6 nm
Day 357 ‐ May 14, 2020
Day 356 ‐ May 13, 2020

36.5 nm
Day 355 ‐ May 12, 2020

12.4 nm

The Patuxent (Pax) River

Drone shot over Herrington Harbor South Marina
Day 354 ‐ May 11, 2020

21.6 nm
Day 353 ‐ May 10, 2020

25.2 nm
Day 352 ‐ May 9, 2020
Day 351 ‐ May 8, 2020

36 nm
Day 350 ‐ May 7, 2020

15.4 nm
Day 349 ‐ May 6, 2020
Day 348 ‐ May 5, 2020

12 nm

Windy Weather and the South Chesapeake

We made it to a beach! The next morning, about 30 mins af
Day 347 ‐ May 4, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 346 ‐ May 3, 2020

62.1 nm
Day 345 ‐ May 2, 2020

28.7 nm
Day 344 ‐ May 1, 2020

36.2 nm
Day 343 ‐ Apr 30, 2020
Day 342 ‐ Apr 29, 2020

Internet Connectivity

I've since thrown away most of this setup and gone with a new setup described in a new post. So this is just here for posterity. (Content last updated 7/16/2020) People ask us all the time what we use...
Day 341 ‐ Apr 28, 2020

26.1 nm
Day 340 ‐ Apr 27, 2020

Civilization, what's that?

Sunset at the Alligator River. Wide open space and no other boats.
Day 339 ‐ Apr 26, 2020

54.3 nm
Day 338 ‐ Apr 25, 2020

39.7 nm
Day 337 ‐ Apr 24, 2020

0.1 nm
Day 336 ‐ Apr 23, 2020
Day 335 ‐ Apr 22, 2020

20.1 nm
Day 334 ‐ Apr 21, 2020

36.4 nm

Oriental and Belhaven: Small Town America?

Oriental, NC's downtown area. We're at the marina at bottom center.
Day 333 ‐ Apr 20, 2020
Day 332 ‐ Apr 19, 2020

47.3 nm
Day 331 ‐ Apr 18, 2020
Day 330 ‐ Apr 17, 2020
Day 329 ‐ Apr 16, 2020

23.2 nm
Day 328 ‐ Apr 15, 2020

41.1 nm

Weathering a Storm

Drone view over Surf City. Highwind is the boat in the bottom left-ish corner of
Day 327 ‐ Apr 14, 2020

16.5 nm
Day 326 ‐ Apr 13, 2020
Day 325 ‐ Apr 12, 2020
Day 324 ‐ Apr 11, 2020

On the Hook
Day 323 ‐ Apr 10, 2020

22.7 nm
Day 322 ‐ Apr 9, 2020

22.7 nm
Day 321 ‐ Apr 8, 2020

68 nm
Day 320 ‐ Apr 7, 2020

20.6 nm

Living our Best Lives (Savannah to Charleston)

Alternate titles for this post could have included: "the week of mediocre sunset pictures" or "now we really don't do much in towns".
Day 319 ‐ Apr 6, 2020

37.5 nm
Day 318 ‐ Apr 5, 2020

34.1 nm
Day 317 ‐ Apr 4, 2020
Day 316 ‐ Apr 3, 2020

24.1 nm
Day 315 ‐ Apr 2, 2020

36.2 nm
Day 314 ‐ Apr 1, 2020
Day 313 ‐ Mar 31, 2020

21.2 nm
Day 312 ‐ Mar 30, 2020

30.8 nm

Northern Georgia (Teakettle Creek to Savannah)

Sunset over Sunbury After fueling up at Brunswick (we ar
Day 311 ‐ Mar 29, 2020
Day 310 ‐ Mar 28, 2020

34.1 nm
Day 309 ‐ Mar 27, 2020

18.1 nm
Day 308 ‐ Mar 26, 2020

51.1 nm

We Made it to Georgia! (Jekyll Island and Brunswick)

Our Great Loop guidebook gave us three options for our first stop in Georgia, a
Day 307 ‐ Mar 25, 2020
Day 306 ‐ Mar 24, 2020

9.8 nm
Day 305 ‐ Mar 23, 2020

30.1 nm
Day 304 ‐ Mar 22, 2020

60.4 nm

Black Creek to Fernandina

Amazing sunset view captured from the drone We knew that
Day 303 ‐ Mar 21, 2020
Day 302 ‐ Mar 20, 2020

26.8 nm
Day 301 ‐ Mar 19, 2020

56.4 nm

Getting Better at Social Distancing (Palm Coast to Jacksonville)

Coming into Jacksonville after a long day at 8 kts on the ICW
Day 300 ‐ Mar 18, 2020
Day 299 ‐ Mar 17, 2020

23.4 nm
Day 298 ‐ Mar 16, 2020

43.4 nm
Day 297 ‐ Mar 15, 2020

49.1 nm

Titusville and New Smyrna: Poor Social Distancing and Rockets

Starting our day at the Kennedy Space Center Friday, we d

Picking Up The Pace, COVID-19 Adjustments, and More Repairs

The ICW has lots of large power line stays just a few dozen feet off the channel
Day 296 ‐ Mar 14, 2020
Day 295 ‐ Mar 13, 2020

20.4 nm
Day 294 ‐ Mar 12, 2020

53.6 nm
Day 293 ‐ Mar 11, 2020

27.9 nm

Nettles Island

After we landed back in Florida after a great weekend celebrating David's grandmother Marian's life with his family, we immediately loosed the lines and started heading northwards, aiming to find an a...
Day 292 ‐ Mar 10, 2020
Day 291 ‐ Mar 9, 2020
Day 290 ‐ Mar 8, 2020

31.3 nm
Day 289 ‐ Mar 7, 2020
Day 288 ‐ Mar 6, 2020

An Average Day

Quite a few people have been asking us if we are under way and if we are on the boat while working, so I thought I'd describe an average day so far on the trip. We woke up this morning in Boynton Beac...
Day 287 ‐ Mar 5, 2020

24.7 nm
Day 286 ‐ Mar 4, 2020
Day 285 ‐ Mar 3, 2020

19 nm
Day 284 ‐ Mar 2, 2020
Day 283 ‐ Mar 1, 2020

17 nm

Under Way

The last few days have been pretty solidly filled with finishing the last projects to get the boat back together and ready to start the trip. We swapped out a fixed cooler for a
Day 282 ‐ Feb 29, 2020
Day 281 ‐ Feb 28, 2020
Day 280 ‐ Feb 27, 2020
Day 279 ‐ Feb 26, 2020

Settling In

Current Status: Messy But Manageable The only set-in-stone
Day 278 ‐ Feb 25, 2020
Day 277 ‐ Feb 24, 2020
Day 276 ‐ Feb 23, 2020

And So It Begins

When David randomly (at least to me it felt pretty random...) said to me about three years ago, "I think we should get a boat", I never would have dreamed that three years later we would be celebratin...
Day 275 ‐ Feb 22, 2020
Day 274 ‐ Feb 21, 2020
Day 273 ‐ Feb 20, 2020
Day 272 ‐ Feb 19, 2020
Day 271 ‐ Feb 18, 2020
Day 270 ‐ Feb 17, 2020
Day 269 ‐ Feb 16, 2020
Day 268 ‐ Feb 15, 2020

Final Preparations and Initial Plans

As I go to bed tonight, we tick down past the 8-days-to-go mark. So, we're just finishing up some fairly frantic last-minute planning and logistics, and are ready to move into see-what-happens mode.
Day 267 ‐ Feb 14, 2020
Day 266 ‐ Feb 13, 2020
Day 265 ‐ Feb 12, 2020
Day 264 ‐ Feb 11, 2020
Day 263 ‐ Feb 10, 2020
Day 262 ‐ Feb 9, 2020
Day 261 ‐ Feb 8, 2020
Day 260 ‐ Feb 7, 2020
Day 259 ‐ Feb 6, 2020
Day 258 ‐ Feb 5, 2020
Day 243 ‐ Jan 21, 2020

Arrived, But Not Quite in One Piece

Highwind getting unloaded at Port Everglades, Ft. Lauderdale, FL As the date of the boat's arrival in Florida got closer, we were thinking that it was probably too early to fly out and start our loop...

On Its Way

After several back-and-forths with Florida on Thursday and Friday, we got our ISF filed (customs forms) and were cleared to load. 3pm Friday, they loaded it up, and 7am this morning the ship departed...
Day 213 ‐ Dec 22, 2019

A Journey of 6000 Miles Begins With a Single Email

I hadn't heard from the boat broker in a month, so last Tuesday night (Dec 16) I fired off a quick checkin email to see if he had any update on when the January/February sailing was going to happen. I...
Day 212 ‐ Dec 21, 2019

82.5 nm
Day 197 ‐ Dec 6, 2019

3.4 nm

Preparation for The Loop

TL;DR: Early in 2019, Hannah and I made the decision to start seriously planning on doing The Great
Day 196 ‐ Dec 5, 2019

8.8 nm
Day 192 ‐ Dec 1, 2019

16.9 nm
Day 191 ‐ Nov 30, 2019

26 nm
Day 190 ‐ Nov 29, 2019

41.8 nm
Day 171 ‐ Nov 10, 2019

4.7 nm
Day 170 ‐ Nov 9, 2019

21.1 nm
Day 157 ‐ Oct 27, 2019

57.1 nm
Day 154 ‐ Oct 24, 2019

4.9 nm
Day 153 ‐ Oct 23, 2019

4.8 nm
Day 152 ‐ Oct 22, 2019

0.3 nm
Day 151 ‐ Oct 21, 2019

19.6 nm
Day 150 ‐ Oct 20, 2019

22.1 nm
Day 149 ‐ Oct 19, 2019

39.8 nm
Day 143 ‐ Oct 13, 2019

8.6 nm
Day 142 ‐ Oct 12, 2019

28.3 nm
Day 129 ‐ Sep 29, 2019
Day 128 ‐ Sep 28, 2019

95.2 nm
Day 107 ‐ Sep 7, 2019

70.7 nm
Day 66 ‐ Jul 28, 2019

73 nm
Day 65 ‐ Jul 27, 2019

3.5 nm
Day 64 ‐ Jul 26, 2019

1.6 nm
Day 63 ‐ Jul 25, 2019

46.7 nm
Day 61 ‐ Jul 23, 2019

17.7 nm
Day 60 ‐ Jul 22, 2019

5 nm
Day 59 ‐ Jul 21, 2019

25.7 nm
Day 58 ‐ Jul 20, 2019

2.4 nm
Day 57 ‐ Jul 19, 2019

28.7 nm
Day 56 ‐ Jul 18, 2019

12 nm
Day 29 ‐ Jun 21, 2019

13.6 nm
Day 24 ‐ Jun 16, 2019

23.4 nm
Day 23 ‐ Jun 15, 2019

29.5 nm
Day 16 ‐ Jun 8, 2019

37.8 nm
Day 15 ‐ Jun 7, 2019

15.2 nm
Day 8 ‐ May 31, 2019

34.6 nm
Day 7 ‐ May 30, 2019

129 nm
Day 6 ‐ May 29, 2019

1.6 nm
Day 5 ‐ May 28, 2019

1.1 nm
Day 4 ‐ May 27, 2019

6.2 nm
Day 3 ‐ May 26, 2019

52.2 nm
Day 2 ‐ May 25, 2019

68.7 nm
Day 1 ‐ May 24, 2019

46.3 nm
Start ‐ May 24, 2019