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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: RECENT UPDATES; present position & latest doings...
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: RECENT UPDATES; present position and latest doings. This page is more in the true spirit of blogging. We are trying for more regular and frequent updates. Dont forget that emails are always welcome. Thursday, June 20, 2013. Maldives to Malaysia (May - June 2013). Maldives to Malaysia (May - June, 2013. Our route across the Bay of Bengal. Not really mean, she freely agrees . In the meantime, another post for those who follow us. Watching and waiting for a reasonable we...
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada - Chinook and Her Crew
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada - Chinook and Her Crew. Selecting a suitable boat, purchasing and naming Chinook, modifications and outfitting, provisioning and a bit about her crew. Sunday, January 08, 2006. Click here to return to the HOME PAGE OF. RSELF: "Chinook of Canada". Is an 11 metre cutter-rigged sloop designed by Robert Perry and built by the Young Sun Boat Corporation in Taiwan in 1979. Known as. In the Inuit (First Nations) language. And we have not seen snow since we left. We found her ...
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: First Steps - The Adventure Begins
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: First Steps - The Adventure Begins. Saturday, January 07, 2006. Finally, at 9:00 am on the 9th July, 2001, after a busy, busy year of planning, purchases and the preparing of. Our sturdy YoungSun Westwind 35 sailboat, we left our home port of Niagara on the Lake (photo left) sailing at six knots almost due east in Lake Ontario. Our great adventure had at last begun. Photo: our open boat party 1:00 pm to 1:00 a.m! Water in the oil! So we reluctantly have decided to tur...
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada. Atlantic Hops to the Delaware and the Chesapeake
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada. Atlantic Hops to the Delaware and the Chesapeake. Thursday, January 12, 2006. Click here to return to the. HOME PAGE OF CHINOOK OF CANADA. THROUGH NEW YORK CITY TO SANDY HOOK. THE ATLANTIC AT LAST: SANDY HOOK TO CAPE MAY. And Pierre, also from Quebec, who was delivering a boat to Florida. It was his eighth trip down the ICW. The tales of his experiences made us feel like real novices. The third leg from Atlantic City to Cape May gave us great sailing for much of the d...
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The Wanderings of Chinook - Locks and Canals to the Hudson River
The Wanderings of Chinook - Locks and Canals to the Hudson River. Monday, January 09, 2006. Click here to return to. CHINOOK OF CANADA S HOME PAGE. INTO THE RICHELEIU CANAL SYSTEM:. 2001 costs for the Richelieu System were $40 for the transit plus 50 cents per foot of boat length per night, and for the Champlain Canal $15 (USD) for a two day pass with free overnighting at the locks. FRIGGIN’ IN THE RIGGIN’. MAST BACK UP AT LAST. Our mast finally went up again at Hop O Nose Marina on the Catskill Creek.
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada - 1000 miles down the Intra Coastal Waterway
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada - 1000 miles down the Intra Coastal Waterway. Thursday, January 12, 2006. Click here to return to the. HOME BLOG-PAGE OF CHINOOK OF CANADA. Photo: Fernandina on the ICW. We spent four days at Moorehead City after entering the ICW at Norfolk. At Beaufort two miles south - we caught up with friends from our home sailing club (Niagara-on-the-Lake) Will and Lottie Urquhart (. With whom we walked around the picturesque town, had a fish and chip lunch, and met Chris from.
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos. The journey from Miami Florida to the Bahamas then on to the Turks and Caicos. Friday, January 13, 2006. Click here to return to the. HOME PAGE OF CHINOOK OF CANADA. Chinook in the early morning, crossing the Gulf Stream (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Rose). Were buddying with us for the trip across,. Through the night we saw several ten-story cruise ships headed for Freeport or Nassau, lit up like chandelier-skyscrapers. It was a...
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The Wanderings of Chinook: Dominican Republic; Hurricane Holing in Luperon
The Wanderings of Chinook: Dominican Republic; Hurricane Holing in Luperon. Friday, January 13, 2006. Click here to return to the. HOME PAGE OF CHINOOK OF CANADA. Chinook of Canada in Luperon Harbour (Puerto Blanco), Republico Dominicana. Knowing we must be somewhere safe in the Caribbean to spend the hurricane season officially June 1 to November 30 - and not wishing. FROM THE TURKS AND CAICOS TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Left with us. Early the next day we motorsailed 25 nm across the Columbus passag...
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Saturday, January 14, 2006. Click here to return to the. HOME PAGE OF CHINOOK OF CANADA. Photo: Chinook anchored off Culebrita in the Spanish Virgin Islands. After five months in the hurricane season in the Dominican Republic, Chinook battled the trade. FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO PUERTO RICO. S bottom and anchor chain which were now ecological zones of their own - mini reefs. As part of the preparations we took. Who spoke fluent...
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: "Down Island" - the Windwards and Leewards
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: "Down Island" - the Windwards and Leewards. Monday, January 16, 2006. Click here to return to the HOME PAGE OF CHINOOK OF CANADA. Photo: The anchorage at Les Saintes from Fort Napoleon. The previous blog related our experiences in Puerto Rico, the Spanish Virgin Islands and the US Virgins. Were there, and we had several get-togethers with them. Roger had severely damaged his baby finger in an incident when another sailboat had dragged onto. Photo: Albert shows Debby h...
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The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: GRENADA - Our Special Island
The Wanderings of Chinook of Canada: GRENADA - Our Special Island. Thursday, January 19, 2006. Click here to return to the. HOME PAGE OF CHINOOK OF CANADA. Chinook Anchored in Prickly Bay. We reached Grenada on June 5th 2003. After a day sail south from Cariacou where we had checked in (Cariacou is part of Grenada). Was firmly anchored by noon in Prickly Bay on the south coast after a rough sail around the south- western point. Nother bay for a few days. But Prickly Bay was convenient, having a small...
