When it comes to shopping for tools I have my favorites! And with that said, I probably spend of lot of time at “HD” so much so that some of the staff actually recognize me! Even better I now know which one owns a boat! Luckily for me today my tool specialist [...]
In the last few days of 2011, while reading we discovered two great sites. One to fill another void in knowledge we have, with this we will be able identified those fish we see and why not “catch” them?
For our Francophone readers, a great way to see some meteo data for the world. [...]
After the excitement of the boat show, I forgot to include an island in my post, so today two for one special, only available until midnight. Let’s make them Special Island, due to the inconvenience I caused you.
These two islands, are on the bucket list and we will try very hard to achieve [...]
The boat show season is on this week! And today we will be going around the exhibits looking at all the goodies. It is always a good learning tool, and a great way to ask questions directly to the professionals. We may be attending some lectures from famous cruisers? We will also be checking the [...]
The dark clouds had decided to push away, and out came the sun, a nice crisp morning. What else can we ask for? you may wonder. A perfect day to visit our boat, needless to add we also needed to pick up our recent purchase : safety gears!
As we arrived and started to relax, [...]
An out of the way country, and for most people not synonym with sandy beach and blue water, but what a surprise! Admittedly we didn’t even think of it as in idyllic cruising area, although during the sail repair course, one gentleman had mentioned a circumnavigation around Japan. Few years back we had [...]
As promised here is the first posting on some amazing islands! What? are you surprised? did you think I would forget?? No …. not me! I will make a posting 6 times a week for a year with a different island. I just thought it would be a great way to discover more far-flung island, [...]
After yesterday pit stop, we made it to our final destination on this trip. Not exotic neither charming, Ensenada is a port of entry with the entire attribute. The influence of the states is palpable, we are not in Mexico really but in California del south. All price get quoted in both currency, and there [...]
By chance a copy of the entire world C-map came across my desk. A beautiful 1.2GB files that can help you understand the marine world a little better.
Not wanting to use any pirate version of viewer software, I started playing with OpenCPN. I had look at this program before [...]
One more for the list of place we would like to go. I read about it a while back on a blog and again this week. So we had to make a mental note to put it on the itinerary and what a better place than here.
Just in case you [...]
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