Islander 32 on Lake Pepin
Here is a great photograph of an Islander 32 on Lake Pepin. She was anchored next to us near Pepin, WI and provided some wonderful eye-candy to the already beautiful surroundings. On the far shore you can see the Mississippi Queen as she makes her way south. The sun...
Apostle Islands Sea Caves
So we went sailing in the Apostle Islands. On our second day of sailing, the weather cooperated for a wonderful adventure to the beautiful Devil's Island sea caves. The wind was down and the sun was up, a perfect combination for rowing the dingy out to some of the...
Mayflies Hatch on Lake Pepin
We awoke Saturday morning to our Islander 28 covered in swarm of mayflies which hatched over night on Lake Pepin. We anchored out on the Wisconsin side near Bogus Bay under a NW wind and had a lovely night. By morning however our sailboat was covered with the large...
eBoatCards New Lake Pepin Group
Just a quick note, there is a new group listing for our Lake Pepin cruising grounds on eBoatCards. Click the link to join. This is another great app from the folks at ActiveCaptain. If you have their app on your smart phone or iPad, you can see which of your friends...
Zodiac Zoom 310s
We bought ourselves a new dingy. Hurray for us. I found a great deal on a Zodiac Zoom 310s at Defender during their annual warehouse sale which we could not pass up. So about a week later our friendly UPS driver rolls up our driveway with a very large and heavy box....
Ready to Launch
Tomorrow is the big day! Aurion, our Islander 28, is finally ready to launch after a very long wait for the weather to come around and for us to get her ship shape for the upcoming summer of sailing on Lake Pepin. This year we have a number of projects that we have...