A visit from Gordon and his girls.
We had a lovely day on the boat with Gordon Fowler and his girls Stephanie and Allison. Stephanie brought her friend Chris along as well. Stephanie and Chris were down visiting from Ontario.
Nicolette and Chris’ wedding
I've lost this post three times now so here goes We left the Ship modeler's guild regatta and headed back home in time to change, go over to pick up my mother and step father take them to the wedding. We were back to Norman's in time to change and head back to Dartmouth for […more]
Halifax, Family and friends, and the Ship Modeler’s guild
We were in Halifax for two good reasons, a family wedding and a visit with long term boating friends, Norman and Sarah-Jane. We normally visit with Norman and Sarah-Jane at least a couple times a year but it had been at least a year and a half since we had been down. Our first event […more]
July 31 The Long day home
We were up early to catch the bus to Ismir Airport and to allow Rick and Tsipy to get underway. It was supposed to be a good day so miles were to be had. We were sad to be leaving them. We had an incredible adventure with them but we were leaving with a bit […more]
July 30 Our last real day in Turkey
[Sorry for the long hiatus waiting for the last of the logs for the trip, things have been hectic here with boat stuff, house stuff, and a family wedding. I've been working on the log of the trip and it should be available in PDF form shortly. I want to do a first pass at […more]
We’re home!
May not be entirely awake, but we're home. We left Rick and Tsipy about 6:30 am and got home about 2:30 am. Both local times and we added 6 or 7 hours to that with the timezone changes. So our day was about 27 hours between sleeps. more later when I'm awake
July 29
Today we were going to try for a dolmosh(small bus service) into the real port of Cesme as opposed to the resort side where we are. This side is very much the resort side for the wealthy Turkish people. We walked up to the dolmosh stand and got a ride just as we got to […more]
July 28
We are relaxing after the long journey. We walked around a bit today and didn't do much else besides people watch, play games, and walk. Rick and Tsipy went with a local guy that is home for vacation from Florida. He works as a painter in Florida doing commercial painting in Tampa. He took them […more]
July 27 Cesme
It was a quiet day for us, it was warm at 86 and there were lots of people swimming in the little swim area just across the breakwater from our stern. The people at the bar just lay out until they get hot, go for a dip and then back to the bar. At night […more]
July 26, Turkey at last!
With no internet, we have no weather forecast so we decided that we would go based on yesterday's weather forecast and if was windy we would go around to the east end of Lesvos check out there and get ready for the next good weather day to jump to Turkey. It was another nice day […more]
July 25
Our last long day's travel in Greece, 65 miles if we go to the south end, 83 if we go to the east end. We have to leave at 3am to get into a safe harbour by 3pm when the wind is supposed to kick up a bit. Sitting here writing this at 4, I'm […more]
July 24
With the dinghy bolts in place and bedded with 4200 we were ready to lift the dinghy first thing in the morning. So up she came, we tossed the lines off of the dock and we were gone. It was good to be underway again. It was our longest stop for the trip and we […more]
July 23
When Rick gets fuel for Odelia, it is not a jerry can operation like on Millennium Odyssey. Odelia comes to a dock and the truck comes to him. Even if it is a mini-tanker it's still a lot of fuel. When Tsipy saw that all the fisherman had left during the night she wanted to […more]
Just a quick post we are on the road again
Looks like another early morning departure tomorrow morning We left this morning and are currently in Limnos here are a couple of picts to hold you over until I have more time. Beware this next video is 13 meg so it may take a while07 Movie of the Dolphin close in
July 22
Another day of dinghy repair for the most part. Bonnie and I walked about 2km to the next town, Toronis. We didn't walk all the way to the main part of town but did walk the first part of the beach until we got to the cafe's. We were just going to go in to […more]
July 21
Another day of boat projects, there are always boat things to do. When ever I hear that someone has retired and is bored, I tell them “Buy a boat and you'll never be bored.” Maintenance is a constant, when you aren't doing maintenance, you can cruise and enjoy the world. Learn to enjoy the challenge […more]
July 20
Today was a maintenance day. The 24 volt system has been bugging Rick for a while, something wasn't right. And today it seemed to be worse than normal, (both the battery and the amount it bothered Rick). Bonnie and I were starting to work on the dinghy and Rick went to seriously investigate the problem. […more]
July 19
A day to work on the dinghy. The first job of the day was to try to round up the parts for repairing the dinghy. We needed fiberglass and we needed new pad eyes, we had epoxy, epoxy fillers, plywood, sandpaper, paint brushes, and mixing paraphernalia that we would need. So Rick and I set […more]
July 18
It started as a beautiful morning and when we checked the weather the wind was falling in the afternoon and we would be able to leave and get in just after dark. We looked again just before lunch and the winds were dying early. “Pick up the dinghy and let's go.” That's when the trouble […more]
July 17
July 17 The first rain of the trip, thunderstorms too. We were pounded with rain for hours during the night. When we got up Odelia was squeaky clean, washing the boat just can't do what mother nature can do with a few hours of really hard rain. The winds were giving us a lay day […more]
