The Wanderings of a Small Ship
CHINOOK OF
CANADA
An account of the fearless
meandering
around the globe of a small ship - an 11 metre
cutter-rigged
Westwind 35
and her less than
intrepid
crew
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Chinook and her Crew ....boat stuff mostly - deciding on what to purchase for our sailing adventure, outfitting, preparations, photos of "herself", and a bit about ourselves pix uschip.jpg First Steps - Our Adventure Begins. ..breaking free: Lake Ontario to Montreal pix nolsc.jpg Locks and Canals to the Hudson River...the Richeleiu and Champlain Canals, down the Hudson River pix Pallisades.jpg Atlantic Hops to the Chesapeake and on to the ICW ...up the Delaware and down the Chesapeake One Thousand Miles of Intra-Coastal Waterway...a long slow motor down "the ditch" to Florida The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos...our first warm taste of what was to come later pix regatta.jpg Dominican Republic - Hurricane Holing in Luperon ...six months hiding from hurricanes pix debwhitebull.jpg Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...or - "Back to America" pix stthomas Down Island" - The Windwards and Leewards...southwards down the Caribbean Island Chain Grenada - Our Special Island ...hurricane season 2003 Crossing the Atlantic Wide ...from St. Martin, The Azores, to the Portugese Mainland pix dolphins The Fabulous Azores ...three months rest in a mid-Atlantic Paradise pix hydrangea Portugal and Spain: Cruising the Atlantic Coast ...in the summer of 2005 and wintering in Seville pix lighthouse Muddling in the Mediterranean: Gibraltar, Morocco, the Balearics to Sardinia 2006 pix the rock of?Trippin anround the Tyrrenhian - the summer of 2007 ...Sardina, Corsica, Italy's west coast, Sicliy, Tunisia and back to Sardina - a 1500 n.mile circuitThe Ionian and Aegean : Sicily, the "Boot", Croatia, Greece to Turkey - the summer of 2008Friends we have met along the way ... Pix of boats and friends made Landlubbers Page: ...what the cruising life is really like! pix washing |
The sun and stars are maintaining their courses despite our madness, the world is turning as before - swerving only slightly to avoid us
(with apologies to Vikram Seth)
In July 2001 we set sail from our home port, Niagara on the Lake,
Ontario Canada. We had taken early retirement,
purchased Chinook, sold our
house and all our
possessions,
given the kids
the cars and waved our
friends and family
goodbye,
embarking on a lifestyle
that we were very
much excited
about trying . Nearly nine
t years later we are still
very
excited - now
confirmed
'gypsies of the ocean'...
Chinook took us
along the St. Lawrence River,
down the New York
Canal System to the Hudson
River, made the 1000 mile
trek
down the U.S.
Intracoastal Waterway to
Florida
and crossed the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas. Further
south, the
Turks and Caicos
islands awaited, and in
the 2002
hurricane season we were
hidden safely in the
Dominican
Republic. On to Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands,
then she slowly
island-hopped down the
Caribbean to
Grenada for
the 2003 hurricane
season.
Meandering northwards again, Chinook
launched
off
from St. Maarten
to cross
the Atlantic in May 2004. Three months in
the
beautiful Azores, before
completing the final
ocean
leg
the European
mainland.
After 13 000 nautical miles to date we are in the muddling in the Mediterranean having spent time in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Croatia, and presently lost in the Ionian and Aegean Seas - cruising Greeece and Turkey. More than eager to share our experiences with family and friends (hoping to convince them we are really quite sane), our website seems to be a great way to do this. Please enjoy our journeyings vicariously and give us feedback.
AS YOU CAN SEE THIS PAGE IS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
For our blogging, go to www.chinookofcanada.blogspot.com
Where we are NOW and what we have been doing LATELY...
(last updated November 2009).
