#55 The Trent-Severn Canal!

240 miles, 44 locks. This is the entrance. We got here by taking a slightly different route than most. When we left Oswego, rather than heading to Kingston or Clayton, which would be the right side of an upside down triangle and the more conventional…

#53 The Hudson River and the Erie Canal

Wow! What a week. We left Lady Liberty and New York City bound upstream on the mighty Hudson River, which was a great cruise. Along the way we stopped at a free city dock in Coxsackie and later the Troy City Marina, both great stops. The Hudson…

#52 Butch goes to New York!

I'm the first to admit that I'm a small-town guy. Raised in a town of 16,000, I have not traveled extensively, and I'm not what some would call "worldly". I'm not highly experienced with big cities, culturally sophisticated, or especially knowledgeable…

#51 Finally!

MoonShine is on the move again! Today we left at dawn and ran from Cape May to Barnegat, NJ, zipping across the top of the water like a waterbug dodging a fish. Coming into the harbor the channel is narrow and no longer marked, thanks to the…

#50 This post was originally “New York New York!”

However, we have been delayed. (The photo above is our friends on Enchanted Circle, who we hoped to get to New York with. They made it and got the iconic shot!) Let me start with our trip getting to Cape May, NJ. We were socked in by…

#49 Annapolis! And beyond!

Cheryl: There’s Life Out There! Well, I did it. I got away from the boat for a few days. I flew to South Carolina for my granddaughter’s birthday party-which was not an easy feat. I couldn’t buy a ticket until the week prior because…

#47 The Chesapeake!

Norfolk and the AGLCA rendezvous were... hugely fun controlled pandemonium. Something like 350 people to meet, maybe 40 boats here in the marina, meetings during the day where we absorbed information like it was the first day of college, an…
That's right, folks, I am the Captain now. I took the Coast Guard OUPV Captain's license test and passed it September of 2025. Did the drug test and all the paperwork back then as well. Thanks to government shut downs, some Catch 22 nonsense…

#46 Norfolk!!

Norfolk! Holy moly, we made it. (We’ll have an update about the area later. We just pulled into the slip a few hours ago and will have a lot to report on. Like, we're parked next to a 210 foot carbon fiber sailboat that is gorgeous. We…

#45 Up the east coast!

(Photo above: Loopers like to take pictures of each other's boats as they pass by and then trade them. We're just like kids having fun with our toys!) We're sitting in Beaufort, NC after a night in an anchorage. We knew there was a cold front…