Crystal Blues

In November last year we sold Crystal Blues "as-is", fortunately finding a couple who were keen to repair the boat and make it th...

Ley Buying Pumpkins In Vermont In the weeks after our recent accident (see here and here ), we had time to escape from the depressing...

A Beautiful Cool Morning In New Rochelle, With Crystal Blues At The Bottom Of The Ramp Packing up the boat after 20...

Ouch ! Crystal Blues suffered mightily in a collision at sea last month, just off the New Jersey coast and we've spent the past six ...

This Is My Kind Of Transport - The Club Launch At NYAC Pelham Brings Us Ashore In Fine Style With unexpected repairs and maintenanc...

Rob Hedelt: "Australian couple cruising the world on their sailboat adopted by folks in Reedville" BY ROB HEDELT T...

Chris Gasiorek Shows Me Through Wonderland During our stay at Mystic Seaport Museum we met Chris Gasiorek, who...

Good (bad?) news like this is handed out on paper flyers here at Mystic Seaport Museum , in Connecticut, prin...

The Griswold Inn Has A Fine Collection Of Nautical Prints Essex, Coonecticut After rushing our cruise through Long Island Sound last ...

Small But Patriotic! I can't say goodbye to July without mentioning Independence Day here in the USA. With only...

Crystal Blues Rests In Her Beautiful Reedville Berth Early last week we said farewell to our friends in beautiful Reedville, and start...

Looks fairly grungy doesn't it? This was the state of our anchor chain when we replaced it last month. Yes, we did co...

We had a lot of fun at this waterman's event - heck, where else but America would local fisherman start a competition to see who ca...

A Busy Waterway, However The AIS Fish Beacons Give Me Great Fears Heading north around Cape Hatteras a few weeks back...

OCC Dinghy Drift At Leonardtown (Image Courtesy Tong Gibb) Last Saturday the Ocean Cruising Club started a six day mini-cruise of the ...