Month: August 2016
Posted on August 31, 2016
New York City, Baby!
…..aka, massive photo dump. After picking up Michu’s sister in Beacon, NY, we sped down the Hudson to the 79th Street Boat Basin for five nights in New York City. Like most of our experiences on this trip, …
Posted on August 27, 2016
Boat, inside
Before we bought our boat, we looked at SO MANY BOATS online. Months and months of perusing yachtworld.com, of course, but also lots of time looking at other cruising blogs and seeing what was actually working for people …
Updated on August 20, 2016
End of the Canal, start of the river
We’ve finally eased our way out of the Erie Canal, and are heading south and to New York City on the Hudson. The second half of the canal was less about the excitement of the locks, for us, …
Updated on August 15, 2016
Things whose value we didn’t understand two months ago
Our Bimini I mean, we knew a bimini was an important feature; sun protection is a priority, and you almost never see a cruising boat without one. When we were getting the mast down in Buffalo, one of …
Updated on August 12, 2016
Hard Aground
So the other day, I was enjoying my post-coffee time in the head, when the whole boat slowed down. It wasn’t that gradual, we’re-coming-to-a-lock slowdown—it was violent; the bow dipped way down, and I almost slid off the …