News from Bright Ayes
 Securely tied to our careers and family for 38 years, we decided that it was time to throw off the lines and set sail, away from safe harbor, on our Caliber 47LRC.
Check in with us once in a while to see how we're doing and where we are! Wayne and Betty |
Our latest 5 diary entries
| 1st Aug 2010 - 15th Aug 2010 | ||||
| Across the North Sea to Scotland | ||||
| While we had already crossed the North Sea once last year when we sailed between the Netherlands and the west coast of Germany, we had at that crossing divided the trip into three hops, stopping each night to anch... | ||||
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| 28th Jun 2010 - 29th Jul 2010 | ||||
| Norway | ||||
| Long before we crossed the Swedish border into Norway, we had heard many rumors from other non-Norwegian sailors about this country:Rumor 1: Norway is a stickler about customs and immigration. It is not part o... | ||||
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608 Words | 62 Reads | | Read more | |
| 5th Jun 2010 - 27th Jun 2010 | ||||
| Goodbye Baltic, Hello Kattegat and Skagerrak | ||||
| After we left our winter storage in Greifswald, Germany, we headed north towards Scandanavia, stopping for a couple of days in Germany’s beautiful vacationland of Rügen Island and the spectacular old c... | ||||
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808 Words | 73 Reads | | Read more | |
| 6th May 2010 - 4th Jun 2010 | ||||
| Germany - again and beyond | ||||
| Maybe it was the beautiful spring weather in New Jersey that we were leaving behind, or the dreaded all-night flight from Newark to Berlin sitting upright in today’s ever-more cramped airlines followed by a t... | ||||
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2835 Words | 124 Reads | | Read more | |
| 19th Oct 2009 - 2nd Nov 2009 | ||||
| Germany | ||||
| Suffice it to say that late fall is not a good time to be sailing in the Baltic. Luckily and with careful weather checking, we managed to make our way across Poland’s north coast to Greifswald, our wintering... | ||||
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1997 Words | 146 Reads | | Read more | |
