Bahamas Voyage

Yes. We Are Alive.

Maj-Lis and Don — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:56:06 +0100

Obviously, we have been slow to get our blog going. The weather,

travel and boat fixing has kept us very busy. So here is the...

Back in Toronto

Maj-Lis and Don — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:39:00 +0200

We have now been back in Toronto for a month. Where is the heat?

We will be in Fiji & Austra...

Back in the US

Maj-Lis and Don — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:29:00 +0200

We arrived in Ft Pierce from Green Turtle Cay after a thirty hour trip. Chris Parker forecast a short period of benign weather. These are rare, so,...

April 7 Man-o-war Cay

Maj-Lis and Don — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:07:00 +0200

Our trip from Royal Island, Eluthera, across the Northeast Providence Channel (Eluthera to Great Abaco) consisted of 11.5 hours of washing machine ...

Mar 30 - Eluthera

Maj-Lis and Don — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:30:00 +0200

Towards Abacos and end of trip. We said good-bye to the beautiful Exumas yesterday as we were heading towards Eleuthera, out present location. (Ign...

Fun in Georgetown

Maj-Lis and Don — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:09:00 +0100

We have been in Georgetown for almost a month. The time has been flying and we think this is an amazing place in so many ways. First of all, the op...

Feb. 27 - Georgetown

Maj-Lis and Don — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:37:00 +0100

Ross: Hello from Georgetown- the narcotic summer camp for the geriatric set. About three hundred boats are anchored. Getting a spot that allows you...

Feb 9 - Black Point

Maj-Lis and Don — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:03:00 +0100

We went to the Five F Festival in Little Farmer Island and anchored at the west side with about 30 boats. The festival was planned to be a weekend ...

Jan 31 - Settled in at Staniel Cay

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:59:00 +0100

We have been anchoring at Staniel Keys, a small settlement, for almost a week. As all anchorages are here in the Exumas, this one is also extremely...

Jan. 16 - Wardrick Wells

Maj-Lis and Don — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:49:00 +0100

We have now been on a mooring ball in Warderick Wells, a Land and Sea Park, in the Exumas, for the last two nights. This is an incredible beautiful...

Nestled into Nassau

Maj-Lis and Don — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:02:00 +0100

As I write this the wind is blowing towards us unimpeded for 150 miles from Florida. We came to Devil’s Cay in search of a place to hunke...

Its New Years in the Bahamas

Maj-Lis and Don — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:32:00 +0100

Its New Years Eve and we just arrived in Bimini.

The crossing was fine although a bit rolly when we were in the strongest grip o...

Bahamas Bound ... maybe

Maj-Lis and Don — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:13:00 +0100

We have been in Miami for about a week.

Wednesday looks like a potential day for us to crosss to Bahamas – alt...

Twas a few nights before Christmas...

Maj-Lis and Don — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:03:00 +0100

Twas a few nights before Christmas…When all through the boat , swept a strong breeze from the north � that meant those Canadians were try...

December 6 - Warm At Last

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:48:00 +0100

Solid Titusville mud now holds the anchor. The temperature is downright balmy at least for a few minutes before the sun drops. Such a delight it is...

November 30 - Its Finer in Fernadina Beach,

Maj-Lis and Don — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:57:00 +0100

We are now in Fernandina Beach, on the north Florida border. We were getting tired of the constant cold. It was usual to get up in the morning with...

November 24, Chillinnnnnnn ….in Charleston.

Maj-Lis and Don — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:42:00 +0100

After a week of slugging through, we have stopped here for two days to get ourselves put together. It has been a week in the freezer. The weather i...

Nov 20 - Cold in Carolina

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:10:00 +0100

We remained in Hammock Bay for a second night as the forecast was for very strong winds – from a Canadian cold front of course. And when ...

Nov 18: Hiding in Hammock Bay from the gale and tornados.

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:10:00 +0100

We moved from Beaufort on Monday to Hammock Bay, a small bay in a military site, about 40 miles west of Beaufort North Carolina. Beaufort was memor...

Nov 14 - Took a brusing getting to Beaufort

Maj-Lis and Don — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:57:00 +0100

It was an interesting day on the 13th. We left a small anchorage south of Abelmarl Sound with a forecast for light drizzle. The drizzle g...

Nov 11 - Baffed in Belhaven

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:56:00 +0100

Hampton – just north of Norfolk: We stayed several days on anchor where we met Kathy and Rob, on Quetico, busily preparing for their cros...

Oct 27- Hunkered down, but Happy in Hampton

Maj-Lis and Don — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:45:00 +0100

Its 6:30 PM on Monday and we are at anchor in Hampton

Va. – just across from Norfolk. The wind is howling, the boat sw...

Oct 24 - Y'all find us in Deltaville - Ain't no Margaritaville

Maj-Lis and Don — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:43:00 +0100

On Thursday, Oct 4, we arrived in Deltaville, Virginia, from the Solomons, both in Cheasapeake Bay.

Most unusually we were able t...

Action in Annapoli$

Maj-Lis and Don — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:12:00 +0200

We have been in Annaplois for a week. We have seen the boat show, had three battens placed in the working jib, and made a few more fixes t...

Oct 10 - Crab in the shell, crab soup, crab balls … what a feast

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:34:00 +0200

Rock Hall is a small 300+ year old village just across the Chesapeake from Annapolis, that is now all tarted up for tourists – little sho...

Oct. 3 -Safe in the arms of liberty

Maj-Lis and Don — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:22:00 +0200

We are moored just behind the statue of Liberty.

We had 20-25 knots, gusting to 30, when coming from Nyack to NY City yesterday. ...

Sept 28 - Waiting in Waterford

Maj-Lis and Don — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:35:00 +0200

Finally. We are coming to the end of the Erie canal and its gazillion locks. The locks have been a piece o...

By the Time we Got to Phoenix

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:27:00 +0200

By the time we got to Phoenix it was 5 p.m. on Monday, September 22. So, we tied up to the dock at the end of the seventh lock on the Oswego River....

Antenna Anxiety

Maj-Lis and Don — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:35:00 +0200

Still working with various antenna options. Clearly my solar panels and arch are having an effect.

More Antenna

Maj-Lis and Don — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:17:41 +0200

Spent the day working on fine tuning my dipole antenna to enable better

reception for the maritime mobile and e-mail. This r...

Sunday Morning

Maj-Lis and Don — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:55:58 +0200

We are trying to set up a blog that will be available from winlink.

Don

Getting connected

Maj-Lis and Don — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:41:00 +0200

Soon the radio will be working. We’ll try the Shorty forty dipole from Honest Bob. This will be tuned with Greg’s help for MM a...

Getting Ready

Maj-Lis and Don — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:42:00 +0200

Will it ever end? Preparation and planning are driving us crazy.

But we had a great fairwell dinner by Rosa and friends I guess m...