Orenda – A collective power of nature's energies through the living energy of all natural objects: animate and inanimate
"Written in Sand at Low Tide" a familiar saying amongst cruisers whenever the subject of Cruising Plans is discussed. Obviously being able to go where you want whenever you want is generally not something many of us are able to do all the time. When it comes to full-time cruising however, this becomes an everyday …
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The purpose of this post is to familiarize other cruisers about Ciguatera. Ciguatera toxicity is a food-borne illness caused by eating fish contaminated with Ciguatoxin. This toxin is a potent neurotoxin and is produced by Dinoflagellates which adhere to algae, coral, and seaweed where herbivorous fish eat them. Our cruise to the Ragged Islands was …
Our stay in Key West, Stock Island Marina at the Perry Hotel was a little longer than we anticipated. Since we were leaving the states for about three months, we wanted to complete all our business activities such as our 2022 taxes and the final insurance stuff associated with the electronics re-fit. Of course, Key …
This is the second part of our post regarding lightning damage to Orenda's navigational and other systems. If you have not read Part 1, a quick read of that post will provide additional background about what occurred. We are including a lot of photos to try to help demonstrate the complexity of this work. We …
Introduction by Scott: This is our post about a subject that many of you may have heard or read about and almost always in an “oh my gosh”, how could that happen and glad it didn’t happen to me point of view. What we would like to do with this post is help those fellow …
We were riding in an Uber a few weeks ago. Scott was telling the Uber driver (he drove a beautiful white Tesla) about our recent travels. Scott is the gregarious half of ‘us’ and can strike up a conversation with anyone. He mentioned that we had recently been in the Bahamas, an archipelago of nearly …
We are anchored in Highbourne Cay in the northern Exumas. We are experiencing 30 plus knot wind gusts which will continue for the next few days. The cruising life, especially when anchoring is mostly relaxing and affords me time to contemplate. Recently I was thinking about all the boating friends we have met since starting …
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Orenda at anchor, Mays River, SC Each new year I review my “planner” and transfer addresses, medical information, birthdays, anniversaries and special dates as well as look over the past year’s happenings. I am very grateful for the lifestyle we live. We began this adventure three months following our retirement in October 2017. The idea …
Orenda in Baltimore's Inner Harbor Marina Today we cruised under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge heading south. We cruised north under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on August 17, almost 2 months ago! Our plans were to cruise the west side of the Chesapeake Bay stopping in Annapolis, then Baltimore, maybe Havre de Grace, then head to …
Thank you Nordhavn 10,000 glorious spectacular nautical miles Teamwork makes the dream work, or so the saying goes. It is hard to believe that our first anniversary of moving onto “Orenda” is coming up next month. For the last 12 months, it has only been me and Scott (or Scott and I). I began thinking …
The Adventures of Little Fish 