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Day 1942 ‐ 2024-09-15T19:39:00+00:00 (7 minutes ago)

41.8 nm
Day 1941 ‐ Sep 14
New Haven, CT, United States ‐ 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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20.1 nm
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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
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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...
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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...
Day 1354 ‐ Feb 5, 2023
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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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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
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76.1 nm
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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
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44.5 nm
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