The Crew

This blog builds upon that of straycatvoyages.blogspot.com where our reasons for moving from the world of sail to trawlering are discussed as well as the characteristics of our “new to us” trawler, the RB Haven.



This blog starts as we begin heading South to Florida in October of 2009 so that early in January of 2010, we will be positioned to head to the Bahamas for the winter.  As someone once said, “it’s a tough job, but someone has to do it”.

We had taken the boat North in May.  We had a list of things that needed to be done and the closer we could get the boat home, the easier it would be.  Some of these things were critical (e.g. fix the leaky fuel injection pump), some were really important (e.g. stop the leakage around the rudder post before it got worse) and some were nice but far from critical (e.g paint the foredeck). 

We had done all the critical and “really important” things.  We had taken several shakedown mini-cruises in the Thousand Islands.  Our clothes were on-board.  So were ships spares and basic stores (minus beer, wine, liquor and food).


All that remained was to go.












Typical scene from the Thousand Islands region of the St Lawrence River.







On  Friday, October 2, our intrepid crew assembled.  This consisted of:

Our good friends Pam and Gerry

who had volunteered to help us through the locks of the Oswego and Erie Canals,

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 Bev, the Adm;iral.




 








Myself as the ship's captain.

Tiesha (to the left) and Tuk (to the right), the ship’s mascots.