Pearls from the Ships Log

Cuba: Tips for Cruisers

Cuba: Tips for Cruisers

Nowadays, you can only enter through an international Harbour. If you are going to Cuba from the USA you’ll be sailing into Havana’s Marina Hemmingway. And that is where you...

Cuba: Tips for Cruisers

Nowadays, you can only enter through an international Harbour. If you are going to Cuba from the USA you’ll be sailing into Havana’s Marina Hemmingway. And that is where you...

Lobsterin' for amateurs

Lobsterin' for amateurs

Lobster Fishing May 2012-06-03 After sailing the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Newfoundland for many years, I’ve become pretty proficient at dodging Lobster Pots in their many configurations whether...

Lobsterin' for amateurs

Lobster Fishing May 2012-06-03 After sailing the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Newfoundland for many years, I’ve become pretty proficient at dodging Lobster Pots in their many configurations whether...

Grand Bank to France

Grand Bank to France

It is only 28 nm from Grand Bank to Saint Pierre but what a world of difference!  Saint Pierre & Miquelon are definitely France!  The majority of goods here are...

Grand Bank to France

It is only 28 nm from Grand Bank to Saint Pierre but what a world of difference!  Saint Pierre & Miquelon are definitely France!  The majority of goods here are...

Farmed fish & Dory Races

Farmed fish & Dory Races

"Jamie explained that when they relocated the community in Jersyman’s Harbour, they just took the houses with them!  Dragged the houses down to the water, floated them & towed them...

Farmed fish & Dory Races

"Jamie explained that when they relocated the community in Jersyman’s Harbour, they just took the houses with them!  Dragged the houses down to the water, floated them & towed them...

Waterfall - Room with a view & running water

Waterfall - Room with a view & running water

Grey River to Hare Bay We are learning to speak nautical Newfie.  A ‘sunker’ is a rock lurking just below the surface of the water – usually spotted by the...

Waterfall - Room with a view & running water

Grey River to Hare Bay We are learning to speak nautical Newfie.  A ‘sunker’ is a rock lurking just below the surface of the water – usually spotted by the...

Charming ghost town

Charming ghost town

Squid Hole to Grey River With the help of the radar & GPS we made our way east to Rose Blanche where we docked at the government wharf.  Rose Blanche...

Charming ghost town

Squid Hole to Grey River With the help of the radar & GPS we made our way east to Rose Blanche where we docked at the government wharf.  Rose Blanche...