Friday, September 14, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
zincs and such
Haven't really gone out lately.
Need to get the zincs changed. Soon.
Someone gave me the idea of taking the boat up the charles river until the current is real slow (like lily pads growing slow) and anchoring in 3-4 feet of water and just doing it there. I think it is such a good and fun idea. Perhaps that will happen in the next weekend or two. Anyone wanna go with?
-Justin
Need to get the zincs changed. Soon.
Someone gave me the idea of taking the boat up the charles river until the current is real slow (like lily pads growing slow) and anchoring in 3-4 feet of water and just doing it there. I think it is such a good and fun idea. Perhaps that will happen in the next weekend or two. Anyone wanna go with?
-Justin
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Arietta
This charter boat just dropped into the marina. Wait...not only did it "drop in", but it spun around 180 degrees and BACKED into the slip.
Arietta
At 112 feet, our boat could fit end to end in it 3 1/3 times, and the boat is just about 2 times as wide.....that's almost 7 times the amount of boat that we have.
In the meantime, it is a very chilly 63 degrees outside, and I decided to bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies in the oven. I am so excited for the fall weather.
-Jenny
Jason & Katie visit
Last weekend, we had more visitors! Jason & Katie took a last minute trip out here from Friday - Monday, so we took the boat out from Saturday to Sunday morning and went first to Rainford Island, then motored over to Peddocks, where we stayed the night...apparently, we like Peddocks.
We did the usual - we cooked out, fished and played some card games (and pictionary!)
Some pictures:
Katie tried her hand at fishing. Her bait kept falling off...
Gollum seemed rather pleased with being out on the water. Can't you tell?
Justin bought some fish to catch bigger fish with. Somehow, it just didn't seem to do the trick.
But he caught me! har har har.
Group picture, minus Gollum.
Ah...so relaxing.
-Jenny
We did the usual - we cooked out, fished and played some card games (and pictionary!)
Some pictures:
Katie tried her hand at fishing. Her bait kept falling off...
Gollum seemed rather pleased with being out on the water. Can't you tell?
Justin bought some fish to catch bigger fish with. Somehow, it just didn't seem to do the trick.
But he caught me! har har har.
Group picture, minus Gollum.
Ah...so relaxing.
-Jenny
Saturday, September 8, 2007
parents house
So, I'm at my parents house back in Michigan for the weekend. While I'm here I've found they have a bunch of fun boat pictures on their computer. I'm just going to put a few up here since their pc is kinda (really) slow.
-Justin
-Justin
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Gloucester Sail
We were going to go climb Mt. Washington this weekend, but that kinda fell through. Instead, our friends Jack and Jessica asked us to go sailing on their 42' Catalina "Lio Kai" with them up to Gloucester Harbor for Sat and Sun. It would be the 4 of us and their friend Elton, whom we'd never really met. Sure, sounds like a plan.
Here, is Gloucester harbor. We anchored just below Ten Pound Island on this map.
Here is Capt. Jack (not the infamous Sparrow one, but similar in many ways) leading the way out of Boston Harbor.
And here is Jess (I can't remember the Mr. Sparrow's fair maiden's name in the movie...)
Jenny, relaxing in the cockpit while underway.
A large bee type of thing decided to tag along for quite a while. He was welcome till we had to tack and use his seating area for pulling lines around. Then we had to kick him off.
Despite the fact we have pictures of bees we didn't seem to get any real photos of Elton. Sorry Elton. We will have to get some from Jack and Jess... They took a whole ton on their really awesome huge camera.
On the way up, we ran into this HUGE sail race/regatta type of thing. It put us off course a bit as we had to go way out around it. There were tons of cool looking racing boats.
Here is us coming up on them. It was very very hazy out on the way up Saturday. The temp on land was up over 100 F. We were happy to be on the water, but I think it was so hot everywhere that it was just an all around steamer. This pic shows the haze pretty well.
Here, we have made it around the regatta and are continuing on our way.
We got into Gloucester harbor around 6:30 or so pm and had to hail the harbormaster to come out and direct us to a mooring. He was a funny guy who told us we were welcome to get drunk and run around the top decks naked since nobody in Gloucester would care. We declined.
Once we were moored, this party boat that was sort of a tallship came up and moored next to us for a while. Very pretty boat. It actually ran all its sails up to sail away. Very neat looking.
This pic is kinda too far away, but this was our view of downtown Gloucester.
Apparently I was happy to be there.
So was Jenny. And everyone else.
Jack and Jess made us a great dinner of grilled bacon wrapped scallops followed by alfredo noodles and chocolate cheesecake. And of course plenty of beer and wine was drank.
After such a long day of sailing the aft berth Jenny and I were staying in couldn't have looked more comfortable, and indeed it was. I slept like a rock. Despite the 20 mph winds outside and occasionally choppy waters.
The morning was cool as, being such an infamous fishing town, we got to see plenty of fishing boats heading both in and out.
After breakfast it was back out to sea.
I don't really have too many return trip pictures. Lots of water to see and that was about it. Except for one very exciting and unfortunately undocumented moment. In keeping a lookout for lobster pots and bouys Jessica yelled, "Hey there's something in the water ahead of us, but it just went under. I think it was a bird!" No, it was a whale. It was way cool. We actually all got to see it. Just after the glimpse of it that Jessica had seen went away it came back up to breath we all saw it break the surface and blow air/water up in the air, then slowly submerge and retreat to the depths again. We had hoped for another sighting when we all had our cameras ready but it must have swam away from where we were sailing. Very cool to see even once though. (and to be fair to Jessica, the cormorants are big black birds out here that are all over the place and often dive down for fish. Only seeing a glimpse of whale fin, it is not so ridiculous that she mistook it for a diving bird. However, we still made fun of her plenty).
After that, it was down to figuring out how to best approach the harbor with the given winds and whatnot.
My one pic of Elton: exhausted and asleep under a seamanship manual.
Pulling back in the harbor a cruise ship was leaving.
Well, that was about it. It was an awesome trip. Gloucester looked like a very pretty town. Next time we'll have to take a dinghy and go ashore. I'd like to see the place. Jenny and I learned quite a bit about sailing this time and how it all works. A sailboat is definitely an option for sometime in the future. We'll see.
Here, is Gloucester harbor. We anchored just below Ten Pound Island on this map.
Here is Capt. Jack (not the infamous Sparrow one, but similar in many ways) leading the way out of Boston Harbor.
And here is Jess (I can't remember the Mr. Sparrow's fair maiden's name in the movie...)
Jenny, relaxing in the cockpit while underway.
A large bee type of thing decided to tag along for quite a while. He was welcome till we had to tack and use his seating area for pulling lines around. Then we had to kick him off.
Despite the fact we have pictures of bees we didn't seem to get any real photos of Elton. Sorry Elton. We will have to get some from Jack and Jess... They took a whole ton on their really awesome huge camera.
On the way up, we ran into this HUGE sail race/regatta type of thing. It put us off course a bit as we had to go way out around it. There were tons of cool looking racing boats.
Here is us coming up on them. It was very very hazy out on the way up Saturday. The temp on land was up over 100 F. We were happy to be on the water, but I think it was so hot everywhere that it was just an all around steamer. This pic shows the haze pretty well.
Here, we have made it around the regatta and are continuing on our way.
We got into Gloucester harbor around 6:30 or so pm and had to hail the harbormaster to come out and direct us to a mooring. He was a funny guy who told us we were welcome to get drunk and run around the top decks naked since nobody in Gloucester would care. We declined.
Once we were moored, this party boat that was sort of a tallship came up and moored next to us for a while. Very pretty boat. It actually ran all its sails up to sail away. Very neat looking.
This pic is kinda too far away, but this was our view of downtown Gloucester.
Apparently I was happy to be there.
So was Jenny. And everyone else.
Jack and Jess made us a great dinner of grilled bacon wrapped scallops followed by alfredo noodles and chocolate cheesecake. And of course plenty of beer and wine was drank.
After such a long day of sailing the aft berth Jenny and I were staying in couldn't have looked more comfortable, and indeed it was. I slept like a rock. Despite the 20 mph winds outside and occasionally choppy waters.
The morning was cool as, being such an infamous fishing town, we got to see plenty of fishing boats heading both in and out.
After breakfast it was back out to sea.
I don't really have too many return trip pictures. Lots of water to see and that was about it. Except for one very exciting and unfortunately undocumented moment. In keeping a lookout for lobster pots and bouys Jessica yelled, "Hey there's something in the water ahead of us, but it just went under. I think it was a bird!" No, it was a whale. It was way cool. We actually all got to see it. Just after the glimpse of it that Jessica had seen went away it came back up to breath we all saw it break the surface and blow air/water up in the air, then slowly submerge and retreat to the depths again. We had hoped for another sighting when we all had our cameras ready but it must have swam away from where we were sailing. Very cool to see even once though. (and to be fair to Jessica, the cormorants are big black birds out here that are all over the place and often dive down for fish. Only seeing a glimpse of whale fin, it is not so ridiculous that she mistook it for a diving bird. However, we still made fun of her plenty).
After that, it was down to figuring out how to best approach the harbor with the given winds and whatnot.
My one pic of Elton: exhausted and asleep under a seamanship manual.
Pulling back in the harbor a cruise ship was leaving.
Well, that was about it. It was an awesome trip. Gloucester looked like a very pretty town. Next time we'll have to take a dinghy and go ashore. I'd like to see the place. Jenny and I learned quite a bit about sailing this time and how it all works. A sailboat is definitely an option for sometime in the future. We'll see.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
random blog
We have started making new canvas "curtains" for all of our ports. Bought a cool new "snap" tool. I do the snaps, Jenny does the sewing. It works out.
Here is the cat looking more awake than usual in front of a new curtain.
And here is the cat look more asleep like normal, except with me.
In other news, we were planning on going out to the islands this weekend, but we also have an invite to go hiking at Mt. Washington. We will have to see how things pan out. Our friends Jason and Katie are coming to visit for next weekend (labor day) and we will likely get out and do some island cruising that weekend. Should be awesome, so look for an update then.
In the meantime, I should give our friends Walter and Jeff a plug for their new charter service. Go to www.imagineboston.net to see about chartering their 50 foot yacht for a day or night out at the islands. They have just started this business and are very excited about it.
Thats all for now.
-Justin
Here is the cat looking more awake than usual in front of a new curtain.
And here is the cat look more asleep like normal, except with me.
In other news, we were planning on going out to the islands this weekend, but we also have an invite to go hiking at Mt. Washington. We will have to see how things pan out. Our friends Jason and Katie are coming to visit for next weekend (labor day) and we will likely get out and do some island cruising that weekend. Should be awesome, so look for an update then.
In the meantime, I should give our friends Walter and Jeff a plug for their new charter service. Go to www.imagineboston.net to see about chartering their 50 foot yacht for a day or night out at the islands. They have just started this business and are very excited about it.
Thats all for now.
-Justin
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