After two days of cleaning, provisioning the boat, unpacking and storing, doing planned (installing rollout drawers, rewiring the DC buss […]
Shelter in place…on trawler Clare! August 2020
A year like no other. We isolate aboard Clare and explore the western end of the Erie Canal and a few Finger Lakes
Happily home, and dreaming about next year…
We’ve been home about 2 weeks, just enough time to visit Dean’s parents, our sons and their wives, unpack and […]
2019 Finale: Revisiting the Erie Canal in September
Waterford NY felt a little like returning home, but without our previous Erie crew, Sue and Al, and without the […]
The Champlain Canal and the finish of the Triangle Loop portion of our travels
A completed Triangle is in sight! Final leg! The nearly 60 mile long historic Champlain Canal runs south from Whitehall […]
The open waters of Lake Champlain
We crossed from Quebec 🇨🇦 to Lake Champlain in NY 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2019, after a great ~ month […]
Finally, Clare turns south: Richelieu River and Chambly Canal
Sorel 🇨🇦, our farthest point north on this loop, was our turning south point, and the opportunity to experience yet […]
Rideau Canal
After ~ 2 weeks exploring the 1000 Islands in NY and Ontario 🇨🇦, we left beautiful Clayton NY on July […]
Life on Trawler Clare is good – what I love about this lifestyle❤️
Morning swims fresh out of bed, and the chance to jump in and out through the day and evening to […]
More than 1000 gems in the 1000 Islands
The Thousand Islands are a group of more than 1,800 islands in the St. Lawrence River, straddling the border of […]
Our Great Loop Journey on Trawler "Clare" 