Day 39, Saturday, August, 2, 2025 I’m getting caught up on my blog posts, but wanted to talk about yesterday first. We woke to the alarm at 0500 and to darkness. Weather inside: temperature low 64.2° high 73.8° current 65.3°. Humidity below 46% high 76% current 72%. Outside weather: temperature 57° partly cloudy dewpoint 50° […]
Category Archives: Passages
Day 24. Friday, July 18, 2025 We woke to the alarm clock at 5 AM. Last night was the first time that we used our sheets, Summer quilt and put our individual quilts on top due to the coldness in the boat, but that was enough to keep us warm. Weather outside: temperature 54° clear […]
Day 20 Saturday, July 12,2025 We woke at 5am. We baked the bridge tender a couple of t8mes, but got no response. 0549 Phil started the engine. We had already removed the lines and the marriage savers (headphone walkie talkies) were on. I pushed out the bow, while Phil was at the helm, then got […]
Day 18. Thursday July 10, 2025 We have decided not to go through the Welland Canal and into Lake Ontario, instead we’ll do a circumnavigation of Lake Erie, taking our time. Sorry about being behind on the blog posts. Part is being busy, and part is the passages when I don’t have WiFi. We woke […]
Day 16. Tuesday, July 8 It’s about 19nm to Port Colburne so we didn’t worry about getting up early. Weather: Inside boat: temperature: low 72.3° high 86.4° current 72.5° Humidity low 65%, high 89% current 82% This morning Phil and I talked about the plan for backing up out of the slip. We also wore […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sunday March 15. Distance traveled 13.2 NM We got going early and rowed the dingy over the the mangroves and a creek Bob told us about. The entrance was narrow with mangrove roots hanging down for us to posh through. Once past the entrance we managed to keep going by using the ors as paddles. […]
Thursday February 19 to Friday, February 20 Miles Traveled: 81.6 nm Overnight to Virgin Gorda We had moved Changes out of the lagoon at St Martin on the 2:30 bridge and anchored off the beach. Once again following the 8 coordinates we wrote down after a cruisers Net, we saw water 5.8ft under the keel […]
Thursday, January 8 Miles Traveled: 36.8 We listened to Chris Parker weather and then raised anchor at 740am for Dominica with 7 boats in front of us. Guess we aren’t the only ones that thought this was a good weather window to go between islands. We started with 1′ swells 30 min in which increased […]
Travels with the Dolsens 