We’ve spent our first week familiarizing ourselves with the coastal Maine, and the area we’ll be cruising in until the end of August. On the recommendations of our good friends Mary and Christian in the sailboat Iwanda, we traveled north through Long Island Sound to Penobscot Bay Maine to spend the remainder of the summer. Here is a description of Penobscot Bay. “Against the mountainous backdrop of the Camden Hills to the west, Penobscot Bay spreads 40 miles long and 15 miles wide, graced by more than 200 islands. Between them lie great stretches of open water [View Full Entry]

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We’re currently doing an overnight passage from Point Anne Mass. to Penobscot Bay Maine, where we plan on cruising for the next month or so. We left 3 weeks ago today from Oakville, and when we reach Penobscot Bay we will have traveled 820 nautical miles. That’s slow going compared to a car, even though a nautical mile is longer than a regular mile. At the end of the last blog we had just anchored in Newport Rhode Island, and gone in to check out the town. Newport is one of the famous boating places, and it’s easy to see [View Full Entry]

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About Time in New England We made it to the Hudson River, last Friday. 31 locks means a lot of slimmy ropes to hold! The Erie Canal was a good way to get started, as you really don’t have to worry about weather, or tides. Taking the canal through the mountains provided some very spectacular scenery, especially “The Flight”, the last few locks before the Hudson River. The first night on the Hudson we stayed at Castleton on the Hudson, bringing memorys back from our last trip. Castleton is a boat club, where many boats put their masts up. In [View Full Entry]

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Friday night (June 29th), we got to the boat late, after cleaning and packing up the house. Our new home until next May is considerably smaller than our house, so loading the boat was quite a challenge. We planned to take "a couple of hours" Saturday morning to finish stowing stuff away, then leave. Well, we had several friends pay us a visit on Saturday, and we didn't get stuffed stowed, so at about 3:30 we left anyway from Bronte Oakville for Oswego NY where we enter the Erie Canal. The weather didn't co-operate and we ended up spending Canada Day [View Full Entry]

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Friday night (June 29th), we got to the boat late, after cleaning and packing up the house. Our new home until next May is considerably smaller than our house, so loading the boat was quite a challenge. We planned to take "a couple of hours" Saturday morning to finish stowing stuff away, then leave. Well, we had several friends pay us a visit on Saturday, and we didn't get stuffed stowed, so at about 3:30 we left anyway from Bronte Oakville for Oswego NY where we enter the Erie Canal. The weather didn't co-operate and we ended up spending Canada [View Full Entry]

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