Don is an engineer that spent several decades managing manufacturing operations around the world. Mary Ann retired from Diagnostic Imaging some years ago and together we have moved nine times in three countries. We are Canadians, hailing from Newfoundland. We moved to the USA in 1998 and since then have moved back and forth from Atlanta, GA to Gothenburg Sweden a few times. After our last move back to the US in 2016, we started a serious search for our retirement boat, settling on a Kadey Krogen 58 in early 2018. She is named Long Point after a special place in Newfoundland. We cruised from Florida to Maine during our annual vacations and after retirement at the end of 2020, we moved to New Bern, NC. Long Point is docked behind our house when we aren’t cruising, and Don spends most days on the boat tinkering with big and small projects. Mary Ann wonders what can there possibly be left to do.

We grew up near the ocean in foggy Placentia Bay, boating locally on the family boat, the Bluefin. In ln 2003 while living in Sweden we bought our first boat . It was a 5.5 meter Örnvik, built in Poland. It was sold in Sweden when we left in 2005 and we acquired a Mainship Pilot 30ii back in the US. We took that boat up the river to Lake Guntersville, AL and after a couple of years of cruising up and down the Tennessee River we were asked to move back to Sweden for a second time so we packed our bags, and the Mainship, and moved again in 2010. We stayed in Sweden for 6 more years, and cruised the Mainship up and down the archipelago of Swedish west coast as far as the Norwegian border. Beautiful cruising grounds and we hope to be back there some day. After six years it was back to Atlanta, so we sold the boat and headed back to the US again.

Plans are fluid. We are not planning to be full time cruising, but will have a land base at our home in New Bern, NC. For 2022 we are preparing the boat for a four or five month trip to Canada to visit our home in Newfoundland. After that who knows.

Blogging is a new venture. Primarily we want to highlight some of our cruising experiences for friends and family, so optimistically I hope this is not the last post:)

Cheers,
Don and Mary Ann