Paul Benninger & I are delivering Black Diamond to Sackets Harbour on the US side near the St. Lawrence 24 hours away. We are leaving her there for winter service. We leave tonight at about 10pm ETA tomorrow 10pm. Sea state last night was 10 footers wind on nose, thank God, it clocked around wind on Starboad [Read More →]
Blogging aboard Black Diamond! Sailing logs of Black Diamond, a Jeanneau Sailboat.
* VIDEO * Wild Sail on Lake Ontario, Delivery to Sackets Harbour, NY.
October 27, 2011 — s/v Black DiamondTraveling Home, Wemps Bay and Home.
September 3, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
Long trek home! From Leek Island it is a 6 hours trek to Wemps Bay on Amherst Island past Kingston. We stopped at the Kingston Yacht Club for 20 mins, re-fuel, fill water tanks, hose down cockpit, empty trash bags, buy dinghy fuel, oil. And were off. Wemps Bay is our little secret. A very [Read More →]
Leek Island, 1000 Islands
September 2, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
About a 1/2 hour sail from Gananoque, is Leeks Island, Aka Thawratway Island. A really nice mooring hole, with 5 mooring balls for boats to tie up to. Our friends moored, we anchored. Enjoyed the beach for a couple hours as you can see here. Alex loves driving the dinghy, and Thomas loves swimming. We [Read More →]
Gananoque, Ontario
September 1, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
We spent an evening in Gananoque, strolled the town, had dinner in a Checkoslovakian Resturant, Schnitzel… Not nearly as good as Hungarian. The kids spent the day fishing, and Alex caught a 24+ inch Muskie and a Turtle with a net. This kids played with it for a bit before it was released. I was [Read More →]
Anchored in the Navy Islands.
August 31, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
We dinghy boated, hiked, swam off the boat many times and baked bread! So far we anchored out a couple of nights in some beautiful bays in the Navy Islands. This was the first overnight anchorage for our friends, I showed them how to set their anchor alarms so they could have a good nights [Read More →]
Boldt’s Castle on Heart Island in the Thousand Islands
August 31, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
Amazing, 137 room castle, complete with Yacht House, Play House and Power House. To house, Boats, Toys, and it’s own electric generation. This the boat house for the castle, or should I say Yacht house by its proper name. Mr. Bold had a fleet of 60 boats, as you can see here it can even [Read More →]
Sailing The Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence Seaway in Ontario.
August 31, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
The St. Lawrence Seaway was even busier than we thought it might be. – But more so with recreational power boaters. They were more of nuisance than the large container ships. In the St. Lawrence Seaway around the Thousand Islands, the container ships seem to slow down considerably, and reduce their wake to a very [Read More →]
Alexandria Bay, 1000 Islands
August 31, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
During the hurricane Paul, the kids and I sat in the out door hot tub and enjoyed the day despite the weather. After the storm, after a whole day of rain, wind and clouds, God allowed a beautiful rainbow symbolizing he would never again distort the world by flood. Although that’s all the Americans could [Read More →]
Weathering the Hurricane
August 28, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
Here we are in Alexandria Bay about 100km east of the eastern edge of Lake Ontario. We have prepared the boat to go through the edge of the hurricane. Tied the boat off on both sides in some webbing. Have a look at our Sirrius Weather screen on the boat. We are the Black Boat [Read More →]
Cedar Point, New York State Park.
August 27, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
Here we spent a night at the Cedar Point New York State Park. A nice beach, and a dock with just enough room for three of our boats. We have been traveling with The Benningers of Fortune’s Favour and Ivan Vulicevic Family of C-Wolf.
Cape Vincent, New York
August 26, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
We had a great sail from Sackets Harbor to Cape Vincent, up wind most of the way, and arrived within 4 hours. There are a few free dockets that you can stay out. The village dock has space for about 4-5 boats, but draft near the shore is shallow for keel boats, and half way [Read More →]
Sackets Harbor, New York State
August 26, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
After exploring Main Duck Island, we set out for Sackets Harbour, NY. It was about a 3 hour leisurely cruise, Roxane caught up on some sleep from the night passage the evening before. Sea Wolf arrived at about 4:30pm, they were pretty tired from travelling all day in the heat of the day. Roxane and [Read More →]
Main Duck Island, Lake Ontario
August 26, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
Did not want to waste any valuable days travelling, so off we go. Left Cobourg at 10pm, nice motor sail, by 8:30am we were just outside Main Duck Island. We are travelling in sort of a convoy of 3 boats. One boat just arrived in Cobourg, and the other was not leaving until morning, so [Read More →]
A day at the Beach in Cobourg
August 22, 2011 — s/v Black Diamond
Kids love the waves at the beach in Cobourg! We spent a fun fill day here. We will leave tonight at 9:30pm, due to arrive on the US side in Cape Vincent by 10:00am tomorrow! We love traveling at night, so peaceful, kids sleeping, moon light glistening on the water, sound of the waves lapping [Read More →]
Just Pushed off PCYC for the Thousand Islands
August 21, 2011 — s/v Black DiamondSunday Night 10:30 pm, just pushed off and on our way to the Thousand Islands. We will travel over night as the kids sleep. We should arrive at our first port of call in Cobourg at about 8am in the morning. There we will meet friends who have spent the week-end making there way [Read More →]