Thursday, June 23, 2022 Trip: 39.15. GPS 218nm Last night the wind direction was just right that we left the companionway hatch open and A/C off. The light winds were enough to keep us comfortable and predicted to go down to 63-64F. About 0130, I woke to the banging of lines agains the mast, clang, […]
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Trip: 39.15. GPS log 218nm We woke at 0556; No dew outside. Wind from 250 degreeat 8.4 knots at the boat. 81F. Though the A/C didn’t run last night, having the fan for air movement worked well. The only rain I see on the radar is in Iowa so I’m confident […]
Tuesday, June 21,2022 Boat distance 29.77 nm. GPS trip odometer 175. Not zeroed in who knows how long. We’ll do the math for future posts. Passage time 5.5 hours which is fast. We woke at 535am, Phil being up first. The weather 67F with cloudy skies and calm at the dock. We realized last night […]
Monday, June 20, 2022 It’s been a long day getting up about 730am and then putting clothes and items that need to be packed on the bed. I took a shower and both of us dressed, left, each driving our own car, for Catawba Island and Port Clinton so that we could get the bath […]
Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since I posted. Phil has a old friend (not necessarily in years, but length of their friendship) that has a 1977 Tartan 37. Ted hasn’t been able to get out as often, and we would like to sail more, so a partnership was created where we do sweat equity and […]
I hope everyone is doing as well as possible with the COVID19 pandemic. We are staying healthy and haven’t come down with the virus that we know. I continue to work weekends at Hospice of the Western Reserve practicing appropriate precautions and have the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) that I need. We take it very […]
Hi everyone! As you can see I haven’t been posting. Sorry but just not up to it. We visited friends in Long Island Sound, then went up the Hudson River and into the Erie Canal spending a weekend in Fairport, NY to visit my brother and his family. Then we went the rest of the […]
Thursday, April 2, Today we found out there is a bus, Gibson Bus, that will ake us to the Airport where the locals are waiting to welcome in their relatives arriving on the BahamasAir plane. There a DJ set up music leaving the huge speakers in the back of the pick up truck and got […]
Tuesday, March 31 to Wednesday April 1, 2015 Miles Traveled: 116 nm We listened to Chris Parker weather in the morning. There was to be a 2 day moderation in the winds, and we decided to take it as being in the SE Bahamas with a trof just south of us that wasn’t moving. It […]
Friday, March 27 The morning started early with swells from the SE rocking the boat from 4am onward. After listening to Chris Parker and getting the weather from our area via the Webcast from free WiFi through the BadBoy, we had breakfast and went to town to get a SIM card for our cell phone. […]
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