LeeZe is visited by a fire-fighting airplane and Lee and Zehra face a challenging med mooring that could come back to bite them when the wind picks up.
Lee, Zehra and their boat LeeZe are put through the trials and runarounds of entering turkey, only to become illegals for a day.
Faced with a spike in marina charges, our Turkish blogger, Lee Licata, decides to install solar panels atop his beloved trawler.
September 17, 2013 Getting underway to Gulluck was no less a fiasco than the landing. We told the “powers that be” that we wanted to
Lee and Zeha visit with old friends along the coast only to realize how small the world actually is. Lee also witnesses an exchange between a French and Turkish captain involving police and black water.
In a lengthy update, cruiser-blogger Lee Licata battles his ailing generator, gets left adrift in his own tender and experiences a dockside foam party. All in a days work.
Let’s bring back these nautical words and terms. They’re better than the way we communicate today.
Once a rescue craft, this Norway-built steel trawler is the ticket to ride for a venturesome crew.
Island time is great, except in an emergency. This medevac service is for boaters who need help fast.
Black streaks, yellow mustaches and rust all require different solutions to keep a boat looking clean.
A Down East icon provides inspiration for this gentlemanly cruiser.
We follow the path of explorers who ran the Northwest Passage over a century ago, but our journey is a lot more fun
We can spend years planning for a bucket-list trip and then life gets in the way. Go now.
Splashing later this year.
Karly and Evan Nietzel—aka YouTube’s @Navigating Nietzels—tailored their careers for remote work after buying a trawler, moving onboard and completing the Great Loop. Along with their pup, Ripley, they’re just getting started.
This aluminum vessel’s throwback design belies its modern systems, all installed for a Great Loop cruise.
