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Current Condition:
Fair, 64 F (18 °C)
Wind: 4.83kph 330°
Today's forecast:
Fri - Partly Cloudy. Low: 53 F (12 °C) High: 71 F (22 °C)
Tomorrow's forecast:
Sat - PM Showers. Low: 55 F (13 °C) High: 69 F (21 °C)
Updated September 06, 2008 at 02:50 AM
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Cool Breeze does the Chesapeake
Starting in Hilton Head Island, SC and traveling to the Chesapeake Bay and back.
Latest update: We have begun plans for another sailing adventure. This time we will be heading north around the end of April with a destination of the Chesapeake Bay. Bill has been working hard to get the boat in good shape, and I am working on cleaning out the drawers, lockers and cabinets, trying to decide what to take, and trying to get organized.
Harmony's Maiden Voyage
Dickie and Helen bought S/V Harmony, after an exhausting 8 week search across Florida for a sailboat. She will (hopefully) take them from Highland Beach FL, home to Woods Hole ...
Latest update: We motored Harmony from the previous owners dock in Highland Beach FL, and headed south for lighthouse point marina to get stocked up with provisions and nautical essentials. Spent a fortune in westmarine, twice. Set off on friday morning for our first anchorage spot on Lake Worth, about 40 miles north.
Dos Primos
Two cousins are taking an end-to-end trip down the IntraCoastal waterway from Sandusky, Ohio on Lake Erie to Naples Florida. The trip is expected to last from August to Decembe...
Latest update: I am going to write about the trip I am taking with my Cousin, Dave and for each of the WayPoints, I will give you a website if you want to see some professional pictures and read something about where I am going. If you have any suggestions for me you can e-mail me. I want to hear from you.Day 0 - I left Dallas on a 9AM flight with Southwest Airlines. We landed in St. L...
San Francisco to Hilo, Hawaii
SV Sand Dollar, Bristol 32 - Ketch - Hull 298, Home Port - San Francisco, CA, Home Base - New Smyrna Beach, FL
Latest update: June 7, 2008 – 2300 miles to go – On the hook off the Sausalito waterfront. Weighed anchor at 0830 – slack tide at our anchorage. By 0905 we were passing uder the Golden Gate Bridge where the last remnants of an ebb tide met the incoming Pacific to produce some steep rollers with deep troughs. Made our fairwell cell phone calls as we road this roller coster o...
US/Canada East Coast 2008
Fernandina Beach, FL - Beaufort, NC - Norfolk, VA - Block Island, RI - Boston, MA - Southwest Harbor, ME - Halifax, Nova Scotia
Latest update: Our final day in Fernandina Beach, Saturday May 31st, was especially busy and exciting with quite a party in the afternoon (and long into the evening) for the boat’s renaming ceremony. It really meant a lot to us that so many people came from all over the state to see us. For several days we were eating and drinking the various gifts (rum, fudge, olives, ch...
Preparation
I'm flying down to Ft. Lauderdale on Thu morning, and will spend 1 1/2 days stocking up the Yacht, getting it ready for the trip. Bob and Gerry will arrive by air Friday afterno...
Latest update: Packing up to fly down to Ft. Lauderdale – lots of stuff to take with, charts, Galley stuff, tools, linen, towels, etc. catching a flight from Newark airport at 9:35am. – Big Excitement!
Hilo to Honolulu
Hilo, Hawaii to Honolulu, Oahu via the islands of Maui and Molokai.
Latest update: June 27, 2008 through July 16, 2008 – Upon waking up the day after we arrived, we were pleasantly greeted with a beautiful, calm, picturesque, small bay. We anchored just inside of the breakwater and decided to stay there instead of tieing up to the sea wall. Other cruisers that were already there, hailed from Australia, Canada, France and the USA. Conveniences such...
Sole Mates III sails to Maine
Bristol, RI - Gloucester Harbor,MA -Portsmouth NH - Portland,ME -Christmas Cove-Tennents Harbor- BoothBay,Maine Snow Isand - Sebasco Estates -Biddeford - Portsmouth,NH - Glouste...
Latest update: Left Bristol Harbor at 6:30 AM. Wind averaged between 18-20 kts. from the South. We motored down the Sakonnet River as the wind was dead on. Seas 2 to 5 feet off shore, so sailed with the Jib only from the entrance of the river to Cleveland Ledge. We maintained an average speed of 5 to 6+ kts. As we headed up the Cleveland ledge approach we again motored as the wind was dead behind us. Arr...
Norfolk to Smithfield
11-12APR2008 - Trip from NOB Marina to Smithfield, VA and back. This is the first weekend sailing trip for us as a family.
Latest update: Cast off the lines and got underway… at promptly 1115. We didn’t get to the boat until about 0930, but then we realized that we forgot the salad and chili that Laura had slaved over the night before, so we sent her back home to get it. In the mean time, we got our propane tank filled-up and the galley sink unclogged. Barnacles had grown over the thru-hull fitting.
I Bought a Sailboat...
Let the Journey begin. I read somewhere, that a powerboat will get you to your destination, but a sailboat will get you on your journey, I like that. Well, I bought a 1969 22' ...
Latest update: DAY ONE: With all my excitement, I board my boat, give the engine a pull, start her up, warm her up, untie my lines and enjoy the gentle breeze and current pushing me along, through the lagoon, that I am docked in. As I approach this beautiful, brand new white 38 foot something or other, I "pop" the motor into FORWARD gear and…nothing!..that’s right NOTHING ! The 38 ft som...
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