Life Aboard the 85 Footer v3.0
Life aboard the 85 footer is our metaphor for life back at what Loopers call, "the dirt house". Given the space and amenities, our dirt...
Happy Happy gets tucked in for the winter!
At the end of her 3rd season, more than 7 months aboard, some 3000 miles cruising, from the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean to the...
Labor Day on Mackinac Island!
As luck (or it’s opposite) would have it, our arrival at Mackinac Island turned out to be on Labor Day weekend. We had been cautioned...
Loopers meet Yoopers at DeTour Village
Notice how the relative proportions of the upper and lower peninsula are portrayed. A clear sign of Yoopers. OK , so by now you know...
OH CANADA!
Our cruise through Canada started on the 4th of July, leaving the US at Lake Champlain in upstate New York/Vermont. In our 2 months of...
The North Channel
The North Channel contains the La Cloche Mountain range, one of the oldest on the planet (Rockies: 50-80 million years, Appalachians: 480...
Georgian Bay
What's above and sometimes just below the water in Georgian Bay...................Rock!!!!!! Georgian Bay and the North Channel have been...
The Trent Severn - Going Down!
Going down on the second of two hydraulic lift locks (in the world) on the Trent Severn, Kirkfield Lock #36 (of 45) is on the Trent...
The Trent Severn Waterway - Going Up?
The Trent Severn includes another 45 locks! Compared to the neighboring "historic" canal systems (Chambly, Rideau, Erie) that were built...
Kingston and Lake O
We end our cruise on the Rideau at Kingston (Ontario) at its outlet to Lake Ontario. A couple days to catch up on laundry, reprovision...
