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I just put together my boating blog from this summer's log book. I wish I had done it sooner (and in real time), but also note that it took so much longer to set up than I thought it would. Blogs are a lot of work!

The fun part though was reliving the season as I went back to document everything. In the end I logged over 50 days on the water and 900 nautical miles. THAT is a record for me by a long shot.

Check it out. I'm very open to positive feedback too.
http://www.mvghost.com/voyages

How many of you are keeping a "piloting blog" these days?

I'd be interested in seeing them. Lets just keep in mind the forum rules and not post any of our sites that are either commercial in nature or trying to draw users away from boatered as some kind of ruse.
 
Good work guys! I would love to do something like that in the future.
 
Since we're sharing, I've boat-blogged for the past 3 years too. I mainly concentrate on our spring Bahamas trips, but there's some Chesapeake stuff in there as well. Right now is my favorite Chesapeake boating season.

http://www.undock.com
 
Great blogs guys! Kurt, I love the movie: lighting of the Elbow Cay Light. I've only been blogging a couple of years:

www.island-passage.blogspot.com

and have not even finished the blog for my last trip yet. It's a lot of work to keep updated. I wish I had started sooner.

I understand that you can have the blog printed into a scrapbook form as well. It's been interesting to see that the pages have been "hit" from all over the world (I'm sure many Googled by mistake).
 
We blogged our ICW trip earlier this year. Had a blast doing it and plan to do more as we cruise next year.

www.scootersvoyage.blogspot.com
 
CHC,

Your blog's like mine. It's easy to blog when on the trip, but not so easy when back home. Are we bored with the Chesapeake, or just don't have enough downtime to blog when home? I think it's the latter. It's hard to blog in detail when we're only dealing with weekend trips. I mean what with having to update Facebook all the time... :-)
 
Great blogs guys! I have subscribed in my rss reader to them all.

We started one this summer as well.
www.c-shel.blogspot.com

Shel
 
Wow! You guys are great. I have a lot more work to do, to get to your level.
 
Wow, that all looks great. Sort of makes my inland lake boating quite boring, though peace of mind comes quite easy. I think i'd have to brush up on some of mechanic's skills before i'd be comfortable tackling parts of the big blue.

Hat's off to ya.
 
Shel,
i LOVE your Fall cruising video you posted on the 12th on your blog- awesome!!!! Great choice in music too- Andy McKee is incredible.
 
Thanks Woodsong!

Did you see the post on the Monk Trawler? I posted that about a week or so before I found out on here that you had a Monk bought. I became very jealous. :) Love those boats!

Don't you have a blog? Are you posting your recent projects on there as well? What is the link?

Shel
 
Shel- Kurt posted the link to my refit update thread. No blog yet but working on something along those lines!
I did see your post on the Monk! That one looks nice. I am really loving ours....the interior is just perfect and even though technically a smaller boat than our silverton, it has at least 5x's the storage and way better use of space for us. It's amazing how much they fit into that little 36!
 
Ghost,
Great post and blog.
Wallace reminds me of the oar on block island but Wallace has the cake for being rustic.

The only down side to this post is that I have to add a blog to my bucket list
 
Ghost and I navigate many of the same waters. I see he has gone to a few places that I have been to recently.
Funny thing is I have never heard Wallace island come up until we spent a night in Anacortes last summer, then here it is again in Ghosts blog. Wallace will now have to go on the "places's to see list".
Thanks
 
Brad, funny that I had not heard of it until about 2 years ago. Had been past it enough. I always chuckled when I heard it though, cause I went to school on the east side of the state. You used to be able to get bumper stickers in Wallace Idaho that said "I've never been to Wallace".

Have you ever been to Wallace?
 
We have a blog as well, and it can be found at danmapes.blogspot.com I have been updating it since 2008 when we left from Kingston NY for the Bahamas so we have some passages all along the way as well as where we stayed in the Bahamas. Currently we are sweating out the re-floating of Freedom after a Summer layup down South.
I have links to photobucket libraries as well as links to Google Earth compatible GPS tracks so you can see where we've been. This year I upgraded the webcam but due to private IP addresses I cannot always provide PTZ functions. Perhaps they will work once in a while.
 
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Brad, funny that I had not heard of it until about 2 years ago. Had been past it enough. I always chuckled when I heard it though, cause I went to school on the east side of the state. You used to be able to get bumper stickers in Wallace Idaho that said "I've never been to Wallace".

Have you ever been to Wallace?

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Wallace Idaho.....yes sir.
But not for the reasons many went for back in 1971 :-)
I also went to school on the east side, went to Ferris HS in Spokane.
 
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