We’re headed north again this summer. Our ultimate goal is to cruise North West Newfoundland and Labrador. Michelle, you see, wants to get a picture of Roam with an iceberg in the background and what Michelle wants.. Actually, we’re both really excited to stretch a bit this year and visit a really remote cruising ground….
We left the Ragged Islands and headed up to Long Island, traveling along with our good friends, Mark & Michele who are aboard their Manta 40, Reach. The wind has us penned down, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have time to enjoy what Long Island has to offer. The four of us rented a…
This is really a story about my friend Mark Cole and his willingness to put himself between a shark and me while spear fishing in the Ragged Islands. I’ll let Mark, in his own words, tell the story, but first a bit of background. I’m new to Spear Fishing. Oh sure, I’ve carried around a…
Having dogs aboard gives us an excuse to make multiple trips per day to the sugar white beaches in the Raggeds. Well, some of the beaches aren’t pristine, but the dogs love them just the same. Tugboat and Sailor send their love to their friends back in the states…
We’ve never been to the Ragged Islands before, so we really can’t offer a Before/After comparison, but walking through Duncan Town, the only settlement in the Ragged Islands, your heart aches for those that lived and raised their families here. Before Irma there were around 200 people living in the Ragged Islands, almost all of…
Retirement conjures visions of sitting in a comfortable rocking chair on a long, shady, cool porch. A cold glass of ice tea leaving sweat marks on a side table. A good book open and facing down on your chest as you snooze away the afternoon. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Our retirement has been and probably…
The weather this year has caused some travel challenges, but we made it to the Exumas last week. Life is Good! We spent a few days in the Exuma Land & Sea Park and then headed down to Big Majors (Staniel Cay) where we’ve been anchored along with our friends Ted and Jenny (Nordhavn 47,…
Last week, as 2017 was coming to an end, Michelle and I were reminiscing about our first year of cruising on Roam. In a word: AMAZING! Through 5,000 miles of travel on the water, we had almost no problems with the boat, made many new friends, witnessed the awe inspiring beauty of nature, and dropped…
We have two dinghies and we only have room for one, so we’re selling our 12 foot Caribe dinghy! I feel like I need to explain. During our trip this summer, the Hypalon inflatable tubes started delaminating. By that, I mean the outer layer of material started to peel off the tubes. It was mainly…
I wrote several posts as we cruised throughout Nova Scotia and Newfoundland this year and perhaps I’ll go back and add another post or two to highlight photographs that we feel represent the experience we had. This post, though is really meant to be a recap of our overall thoughts on cruising in Nova Scotia…
