by Eric Aaland | Nov 5, 2010 | Boat de Jour, Photos, Tales of the Sail |
So here we are again, its Bob Perry corner once again. Only this time, rather than dreaming abut our future Bob Perry designed cruiser, we now own one! As of Wednesday, we are the proud owners of our latest true love, a 1976 Islander 28, Aurion. We are so excited we...
by Eric Aaland | Aug 18, 2010 | Events, Photos, Tales of the Sail, Tall Ships |
So as you can guess from my lack of updating, I’ve been rather busy lately. Oh well. Here are a smattering of the 806 photos Honey Bunny took mostly, but some from me as well on our recent trip to Duluth for the Tall Ship Duluth 2010 festival. We had a great time....
by Eric Aaland | Jul 17, 2010 | Education, How To, Tales of the Sail |
Well, I don’t know where to start. The last two weekends have both had some good lessons to teach us out on our Precision 23. Both lessons remind us to be careful and alert. The first one brought home the message about informing passengers about their different roles...
by Eric Aaland | Jun 28, 2010 | Photos, Tales of the Sail |
I was checking up on Alex and Taru the other day on their excellent blog, The World Tour, and saw this photo of Taru diving off their beautiful Halberg Rassy 352, Caos. For those of you who don’t know, Alex and Taru are preparing to set off on a world tour aboard...
by Eric Aaland | Jun 22, 2010 | Photos, Tales of the Sail |
We are now officially salty sailors, having made the leap from sweet water to the briny deep. That is, if you count the 65 foot depths or so of Nantucket Sound as the briny deep. Let me regale our tale. A few weeks ago we set out for Cape Cod to visit friends and...
by Eric Aaland | Jun 14, 2010 | Photos, Tales of the Sail |
Well, we have returned from our Cape Cod vacation. We had a wonderful time and even managed to get a bit of sailing in on Wednesday. On our way out (we drove) we stopped at Niagara Falls, we had not planned that one, but thought as long as we were so close it would be...
