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I couldn't find a thread of cruising photos but thought it might be cool to look at shots from recent or past cruises.

I'm old enough to remember inviting family and friends over to dinner and then breaking out the screen and projector to show slides of our three week vacation. No escape, you have to watch them all.

My boat pictures are on the other computer so maybe later.


hint: It helps if you identify the place not just by name, but by state and/or country. You know where it was but some don't.
 
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I'm blown away over the beauty of many of yall's cruising areas. One day I would like to cruise the PNW-- I need a boat on both coasts! (J/K-- I can barely keep up with one boat).

In those rugged, rocky cruising areas are you ever worried about hitting a rock? We don't seem to have rocks here, or at least I haven't found one yet.
 
Darlin carries 150 gallons of water and has an 8gph watermaker. 1484924917544.jpgBonanza Beach, Esprito Santos 2 hrs east of La Paz.
 
I'll be showing my wife your Sea of Cortez photo's. Her brother should be arriving there by sailboat any day now. Winters here are long. You never know what the future may hold...
 
Lots of rocks, but they don't move around much. And often we can be 100 yards from shore and in 100-300 feet of water. That's not to say there aren't surprises here and there, but most are well charted. When exploring a place with old or less detailed charting, we're pretty careful. And there's floating wood too.

In my small boats, I always carried spare props. I like the Nordic Tug's full keel with protected single prop and rudder.

Some pics from SE Alaska

Reid Inlet, in Glacier Bay:

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South Sawyer Glacier, in the Tracy Arm:

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The Margerie Glacier in Glacier Bay calving:
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Sea Otter:

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Juvenile Humpback:


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Ashore in Hoonah Sound:

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Sitting in front of my monitor, trying to get motivated, and looking at these is difficult. Nice photos.
 
Lots of rocks, but they don't move around much. And often we can be 100 yards from shore and in 100-300 feet of water. That's not to say there aren't surprises here and there, but most are well charted. When exploring a place with old or less detailed charting, we're pretty careful. And there's floating wood too.

In my small boats, I always carried spare props. I like the Nordic Tug's full keel with protected single prop and rudder.

:thumb::)thank you for the beautiful pictures, nice animals in the pictures.

I took my tug keel little contact with the round rock. looked out onto a very small damage, but the maintenance guy got run deep into the fiber, the fiber came hard against. I was a huge surprise that the keel of which is hollow in the middle, and the fiber thickness of the keel beneath relatively thin.:ermm:
 
1) Sunrise along the ICW
2) Anchored in Hawksbill Cove, Exumas
3) Beach walk, Bahamas
4) Locking through, Trent-Severn Waterway
5) Lift-lock, Trent-Severn
 

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More SE Alaska pics

Lion's Mane jelly, about a foot and a half across:

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55lb 10-year-old working a 50lb King Salmon:

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Totems in Hydaburg:

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Spot Prawns:

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Dungies for dinner:

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Falls near Nelson Island:

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Rough morning at anchor:

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SE AK in a mysterious mood:

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Towing the 17' center console across Lake Michigan last July.
 
Someone beginning to "sticking one's toe" into the Pacific Ocean:



All of my entrances to the Pacific Ocean (during lightship sailboat races in the 1960s) resulted in sea sickness. Never was a problem onboard a 900-foot cruise ship, however.
 
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Some pics going thru downtown Chicago last July.
 
1) Kitkatla & Clouds
2) Wista 4x5 & Badger
3) Zain chilling while I photograph with the 4x5 in Kitkatla Inlet, Porcher Island, north coast BC, Canada.

We were at the top end of Kitkatla Inlet for three days and saw not a hint of anyone else. Being from mountainous Kitimat, it was like a lost world with HUGE skies.
 

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Urban cruising in the canals of Brugge, Belgium:

 
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Happiness is finding a Liquor Store with it's own dinghy dock




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A little photo essay of a winters day cruise on Badger from Kitimat, at the head of Douglas Channel, north coast BC, Canada.
 

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Brim River, Gardner Canal, Douglas Channel, north coast BC, Canada. All alone in the anchorage again :)



Spent three days in Gardner Canal and saw one other boat, as we were leaving. Gorgeous place.
 
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A few of my favorites -

Dry Tortugas
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My son and his friend contemplating life. He moved away last year and we picked him up while we were on a 16 trip and he stayed a few days with us.
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Mermaid on the swim platform
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My boys
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The family on the Bahama Banks
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The youngest (9 y/o in this picture) saw this starfish in about 10' of water. He jumped out of the dinghy and dove down to check it out.

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I believe so but without it blowing 30 and raining like a mother it is hard to tell. If I could smell Wanda's biscuits I could be sure.
 
Ft Mc Rea anchorage near Pensacola, Fl. our previous boat a Camano31 and a friend's in the foreground
 

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Stunning photos! A great thread. We are truly blessed to be able to cruise our boats.
 
Pictures from our trip on the inside passage.
 

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Nice sunset Satuday night on Lopez island, WA.
 

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Here are some pictures of me on the "Amstelmeer" (lake Amstel)
it can be totally windless at night and early in the morning. in the afternoon there is usually wind to sail or surf

its about one and a half ours away from my slip. I come here so often that I usually say that it is my own lake
 

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:thumb:
 

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