At the beginning of the ICW we had to make a choice. We could have either taken the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal (also known as the Virginia Cut) or followed the Dismal Swamp Canal. With a name like Dismal Swamp, it was an easy choice for us! 😉 At...
Places
Exploring More of the Chesapeake
While we loved our time in Annapolis hanging on the Navy mooring ball in Weems Creek, eventually it was time to move on. Several people had told us that St. Michaels was a cute little town which we should visit if we had the chance, so it was there...
Annapolis Sail Boat Show
We’d been talking about going to the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Maryland for several years, but had never made it out there. Instead, each winter we would drive (several times in blinding snowstorms!) to Chicago for the Strictly Sail Show, which up until this year had been...
Sailboats, Midshipmen and Blue Crabs, Oh My!
Wow! I have never seen so many sailboats in one place in my life. As we reached Annapolis, where we planned on attending the upcoming in water boat show, the sailboat traffic was crazy! There were boats sailing EVERYWHERE! The Navy sailboats were out with their beautiful spinnakers flying,...
Hiding from Joaquin
We would have loved to have had some time to check out Cape May, but we were now racing to hide from hurricane Joaquin, so Jim got busy checking tide tables and currents. We had two issues to contend with. First of all, we were looking for low tide...
Hanging on the Hook in Sandy Hook
When we last left you, we were hanging out in New York City, which now seems like eons ago! In reality, it was three weeks ago that we left the rough waters of the 79th Street Boat Basin and made a quick trip to Sandy Hook in New Jersey...
NYC in 7:27 Minutes!
Wow…New York City really is something else! We spent a total of eight nights there tied to a mooring ball in the 79th Street Boat Basin and didn’t even begin to scratch the surface of everything there is to do and see in The Big Apple! The highlight of...
Hudson River Highlights
So, just what have we been up to since we had the mast put back up in early September anyhow? Well, for starters, we made the rest of the trip down the Hudson in three hops. We went from Catskill, where we had the mast stepped, to Wappingers Falls...
Going Through the Locks
Some folks have asked us what it’s like going through the locks on the Erie Canal. Well, to be honest, the first one was a little scary, just like anything new might be, but ended up being pretty painless. It all starts with a call to the lock master...
Our Route
Some of you have asked for a visual showing where we started and where we’ve been so far (which had been part of my plan for this website all along). I finally had some time to figure out how to make that happen, and so without further ado…I present...