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Ponce Inlet | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. Mar 19, 2013. Still, we enjoyed ‘sightseeing’ again along the way, checking out homes, the Kennedy Space Center (NASA) at Cape Canaveral, water birds and people – PSA’s (as my Dad used to call them – ‘Pleasant Sunday Afternooners’). White peicans and black cormorants. Pink flamingo from a distance. Great egret near our anchorage. Day 278: March 16;. Distance travelled on this leg: 49 NM;. Current Position: 29 73.13 N; 80. So we plan...
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Snug Harbour | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. Sep 29, 2012. Tuscan Garden, Snug Harbour. Beautiful buildings – Snug Harbour, Staten Island. Century, it was the wealthiest charity in New York, and there were 1000 retired sailors living there. Can you imagine the stories around the dining table or in the bar on the property? Brother and sister in Maggie’s Studio. Maggie has her studio in one of these lovely buildings near the Children’s Museum building, the Staten Island Museum, ...
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New York | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. May 23, 2013. Tai Chi at anchor – 79th Street Boat Basin NY. The Boat Basin Cafe. The day we arrived was sunny, and despite the overnight journey and lack of sleep, we launched the dinghy and went into the Boat Basin to register. We took turns to have quick showers, and Paul grabbed a taxi and headed to the airport having arranged his flight back to Ottawa by phone. The Fairway Market on Broadway. Afterwards we met up with friends C...
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Tilly Counts Islands | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. Jun 19, 2012. Grandkids Corner: Tilly and Owliver. Once Tai Chi started down the St. Lawrence River, Tilly tried to count the islands that they passed, but the numbers got too big so she stopped counting. They are called the Thousand Islands, but Nana says there are more than a thousand. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Tilly Makes New Friends. June 28, 2016.
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Farewell to Nova Scotia… | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. Farewell to Nova Scotia…. Aug 30, 2012. The sea-bound coast. Let your mountains dark and dreary be. For when I’m far away on the briny ocean tossed, will you ever heave a sigh and a wish for me? Ahoy from Cutler, Maine, United States of America! Farewell, Mary and Del! Dolphin in our wake. Tai Chi anchored in Cutler, Maine. Evening light in Cutler. View photo journal for Day 74. Day 74: August 23;. Distance travelled today 66 NM;.
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Magnificent Montreal | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. Jun 26, 2012. On Saturday we left the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club at 10:40 under clear skies, and rejoined the main channel on Lac St. Louis half an hour later. At the east end of the lake are the swiftly flowing Lachine Rapids, which we bypassed by entering the 14 mile-long Canal de la Rive Sud. Day 15: June 21, 2012;. Distance travelled: 27.8 NM;. Left the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club at 10:40 am;. Weather: Sunny, hot (28.
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The Hudson River | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. May 27, 2013. At times on the Hudson I felt I was in Carcassonne in a different century. George Washington Bridge – looking back at Manhattan. Bald eagles on the Hudson. The Appalachians – train and barge traffic, bridges and mountains. The Appalachian and Catskills Mountains. Westpoint – US Military Academy. Bannerman’s Island Arsenal. Bannerman’s Island Arsenal. Leisure fishermen on the Hudson. Unlike the classy clusters of well-e...
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What we went through… | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. What we went through…. May 27, 2013. To get home quickly! Steve building a sturdy frame for the mast on deck. Crane lifting mast onto deck. Once again our favourite resource, Active Captain, came through for us. We had selected Riverview Marina in Catskills for the task, based on favourable cruiser comments. We were glad we did – they were very considerate to us first-timers! Liz relaxing in the cockpit while the water heats up!
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Erie Canal | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. Jun 8, 2013. They said it couldn’t be done. The building of the Erie-Champlain Canal was considered impossible in its time. The 363-mile Erie Canal was opened in 1825 and lauded as one of the greatest feats of engineering ever. Erie Canal – an amazing feat of engineering. To a project to vast and sublime! A bond that can never be sever’d by time,. Now unites us still closer all jealousies cease,. The next day we went to Don and Paul...
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Tilly and the Butterflies | Adjusting Our Sails
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Survived, recovered, getting ready. Drug Smuggling Legacy: Norman’s Cay. Tilly and the Butterflies. May 23, 2013. Grandkids Corner: Tilly and Owliver. Tilly loves butterflies. She gets excited whenever she sees one. She loves their different colours and shapes and sizes. “They are so beautiful” she told Nana. She was very happy when she saw a Swallowtail butterfly on Cumberland Island in Georgia. Eastern Swallowtail Butterfly on Cumberland Island. Tilly at the Imax movie about butterflies. There were big...
