Our website

We decided that it was time to makeover our web site and to merge this blog back into the new, and improved site. It seemed like a project that we could complete in a couple of months, back in October when we started the work. We are still working on it, but life keeps getting in the way.

First it was our two month vacation back in the States, and then it was a computer virus, and now it is the fact that one day while we were sitting at the table in the wheel house, both of us working on different computers on different projects, we suddenly lost our Internet connection. After a little investigation, we found that workers preparing to change the port pontoons had chainsawed right through our telephone line. Merde!!

So, today the boats in our section must move to the other side of the port while the new pontoons are being put into place, and everyone is speculating about how long we will all be without our telephones. On verra!!

Winter in our port

Burgundy Farmhouse for sale

Our oldest and dearest French friend is selling her home in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Saône, a small village in the Côte-d'Or département of the Burgundy region of France.

Saint Symphorien is 10 minutes by car from Saint Jean de Losne, a small town that has become an international boating center because of its location at the junction of the Saône river and the Canal de Bourgogne.

This charming farmhouse is 30 minute from Beaune and Dijon, two of the best cities in the Burgundy region. It is also just 30 minutes from Dole, a beautiful city in the western Jura department of the Franche-Comté region.

The house is located on a large peaceful property (3,200 m2), has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, central heating, a fireplace, beamed ceilings, parquet floors, a swimming pool, cave, a large attic that could be converted to living space and a separate studio apartment. Asking price - 240,000 euros


Click here to contact the real estate agent in Saint Jean de Losne for more information

Deux Chevaux

Cruising out of Paris, we are back in the slow lane. We have been floating along on the Marne, visiting Champagne villages and getting together with old friends, a real vacation.

In the small Champagne village of Reuil, we took a leisurely ride on an original "deux chevaux".

A day at the beach - Parisienne Style

You have to love a city that closes one of it major roads during the summer just for fun. Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, created Paris Plage back in 2002. We always lived near the beach in San Francisco, and now, thanks to the mayor, we live, at least during July and August, near the beach in Paris.

Every year more and more beaches are popping up all over Paris, and the idea has spread other cites, even our old home port of Roanne.

18 meter Arsenal barge for sale

Our French neighbors are selling their barge, and it may be your chance to have a Pied-à-terre à Paris.


Luxemotor Hollandais 18 m x 4 m, construction acier de 1925. Fond neuf (Octobre 2005). Moteur Volvo Penda 100 CV (500 h). Permis de navigation. Très bonne habitabilité, confort, luminosité exceptionnelle, belle terrasse arrière. Vis. Paris.

SOLD