Gloucester (30.6.2024 - 3.7.2024) Gloucester still belongs to Massachusetts. We wanted to stop here only for a night but due to uncomfortable weather conditions we stayed 3 nights. There we had seen for the first time the beautiful old Schooner sailing boats. (The one from the feature pic was taken in Vinalhaven/Maine.) The weather seemed …
June 30 - July 22, 2024; 14848 nm and 1950 days after departure from La Rochelle Meanwhile we made it up to Maine. Our declared goal for the trip up the East Coast. Roughly 4300nm since we left San Blas last year, end of October. Quite a trip! Some of my attentive readers may remember …
The trip to Boston anchorage at Onset which was close to the entrance Cape Cod Canal the other side of Onset anchorage at the beginning of the canal there were many early bird fishers along the canal shoreline fishers at both sides Sagamore Bridge at about two thirds through the canal the lighthouse at Long …
First stop was at Eatons Neck about 20nm east of Port Washington leaving Port Washington bye bye skyline of NY Eatons Neck the bay of Eatons Neck the beach a female killdeer plover on her birds nest in a bed of pebbles and shell to hide the egg from preditors our dinghy alone ashore a …
Continue reading Impressions of Newport and the trip up there
June 11 - June 30, 2024; 14671 nm and 1928 days after departure from La Rochelle It took us about two weeks coming up the roughly 260nm to Boston. We had a few overnight stops along the Long Island Sound until we reached Newport. A pretty seaside city on Aquidneck Island in the small state …
The Statue of Liberty and running up the East River to Port Washington the first pic I took from the famous lady the background is a bit crooked but we seemed to be straighten up we were proud!!! the Liberty Lady in all its glory leaving the Lady and jumping on the magic carpet of …
May 25 - June 11, 2024; 14403 nm and 1909 days after departure from La Rochelle With our anchor winch back to life we were highly motivated to finally get going again. Especially having such an impressive city like New York to look forward to. The first day we had only a short trip to …
Strolling in the city my boys on the bridge at Naval Campus heading to the cemetery another plane a quick break at the naval coffee house just some more pretty flowers an old Citroen Dyane - my mom used to have one!!!! that was such cool car the city dinghy dock a proud sportive man …
First days strolling around in Annapolis first dinghy ride to go ashore heading to one of the many public dinghy docks Main Street uptown Main Street looking direction harbour some wall art a roman like fountain 🤣🤣 who needs that??? Maryland State House so many pretty houses - doesn't it look like a bit in …
May 18 - May 25, 2024; 14074 nm and 1892 days after departure from La Rochelle Luis arrived and La Capitana was again extreeeeemely happy. And this time Luisito even stayed for three weeks! So much time to have fun!!! Originally we wanted to leave Annapolis soon after Luis arrived but it happened to be …
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