Author: Anne P

After a five day passage, we arrived in the Bahamas on the morning of January 9th. As always, the passage went to plan — and didn’t. We’ve been really pleased with the weather routing service we use and have found that in combination with our own review and planning, we have a generally good idea…

Having spent the fall and holidays on land, we were excited to return to Tilia just before the New Year. Of course, there was a lot of preparation to complete prior to leaving our home marina in Merritt, NC. Having completed our preparations, we traveled about 6 hours down the intracoastal waterway to spend the…

After a quick trip from Norfolk to North Carolina, we tackled some boat projects before heading home to Minneapolis…

We spent a couple days in Onset and then made rapid progress to Annapolis, including a couple nights at sea…

After nearly two months exploring Nova Scotia, it was time to return to the US. We made a 60 hour trip from Halifax to the US, and got a chance to see some sailing buddies…

Our niece Lucy and her fiancé, Tyler, joined us for some sailing in Canada. Hurricane Erin forced us to alter our plans a bit, but we still had fun together…

Rose and her boyfriend, Emmett, joined us for a visit while we explored Lunenburg and Chester…

We took a few days to enjoy the sights and flavors of Nova Scotia on our way back to Halifax…

We concluded our visit to the Bras d’Or Lakes with an attempted visit to a highland village and a couple very nice anchorages…

We left St. Peters and made our way deeper into the Bras d’Or lakes. We visited a First Nation site and continued on to Baddeck, our farthest point north for this season…