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Adventures while living aboard See Level
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Adventures of Karen, Dave, and Roxy while living aboard See Level
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Sharing our adventures aboard See Level
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Coastal Cruising Aboard See Level
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Cruising America on M/V See Level
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Cruising America's Great Loop and more
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Living and cruising on See Level
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Gold Loopers 2023

We have a map but no directions, a plan but not a schedule, and a healthy dose of adjusting course as we go.

The USA is blessed with a diversity of people, culture, geography, and history. 

Amid COVID restlessness, we decided to live on a boat and see parts of the country a little off the beaten path along America’s waterways, see and learn from the locals and the community of fellow wanderers we meet along the way, and see how we face up to the challenges we certainly will have.   In April 2021, we moved aboard See Leel, our Maine Cat P47 power catamaran, in Ft. Pierce, FL and the adventure began.

Hence it is our Seefari.   

We have since completed over 12,000 nautical miles, done America’s Great Loop, transited up and down the Atlantic ICW and the Chesapeake Bay several times, seen the natural beauty of the St. John’s River in FL, and cruised the Bahamas.  And we’re still going. 

— Karen & Dave (and Roxy) 

Recent Blogs

Charming Champlain

We close the loop on our summer travels, cruising down Lake Champlain back to where we started the Erie Canal in Waterford NY. First, though, we take a short pause for a Minnesota visit. Clontinuing south, when the port engine suddenly quits working we learn how much a $25 part can actually cost. Ah, such is boat life…

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Croisière au Québec (Cruising Quebec)

We travel along the big rivers of Quebec from Ottawa to Montreal and then turn south back toward the US via the smaller Richelieu River and Chambly Canal. Along the way we pass through a wide variety of locks, and enjoy both the big city of Montreal and stops in smaller towns.

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Rideau Repeat

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The entire historic Rideau Canal is a Canadian National Park and was a highlight of our Loop in 2022. So we do it again — just in reverse to give us a new perspective. From Lake Ontario we go up through 14 locks, through the three lakes at the highest point, then down another 21 locks to Ottawa, where we have a grand finale of 8 locks taking us to the Ottawa River. That’s 43 locks in 126 miles.

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Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands: American Version

Our summer cruising continues in new territory for us – the freshwater cruising of a Great Lake and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Along the way, we are surrounded by a vintage vibe in the towns and a timeless feel on the water as we hug the NY coast of the Lake and make our way into the American Thousand Islands.

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Locking Through History

New cruising grounds for us! We exit the Hudson River to travel the historic Erie Canal and all its locks to Syracuse. Then we turn onto the Oswego Canal and head north until we get to Lake Ontario, our gateway to the Thousand Islands. Along the way we see post-industrial towns and are joined by good friends Patty and Gary for a stretch of the Erie.

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