Footloose-on-TwoLoose

21 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Queen of the Sea
21 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Columbia – a Gloucester fishing schooner
19 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Antigua Yacht Club (AYC)
19 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
32nd Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta
18 April 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
TwoLoose on the hard - again!
14 April 2019
Castaways Sunset w Buddha
07 April 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Rainy Antiguan Sunday
28 March 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Shirley Heights BBQ & Sunset
26 March 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Earlier is Better
24 March 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
More Walks on the Beach
23 March 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Back in Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua
18 March 2019 | Le Bourg, The Saints, Guadeloupe
Vermont Groundhog in The Saints?!
18 March 2019 | Le Bourg, The Saints, Guadeloupe
Cleared Out The Saints
17 March 2019 | Le Bourg, The Saints, Guadeloupe
Day of Rest
16 March 2019 | Le Bourg, The Saints, Guadeloupe
Laughs in Le Bourg
15 March 2019 | Le Bourg, The Saints, Guadeloupe
Cruise Liners Visit
14 March 2019 | Le Bourg, The Saints, Guadeloupe
Arrived Anchorage Le Bourg, The Saints
13 March 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Underway from JH Anchorage
11 March 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Jib is a Job
07 March 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Staysail Up!

Queen of the Sea

21 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Annette Brown
This unknown (to us anyway) beauty appeared to be the self-proclaimed Queen of the Sea for the Classic Yacht Parade of Ships.

Columbia – a Gloucester fishing schooner

21 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Annette Brown
As the lead in the Antigua Classics Parade of ships, Columbia (141" long), hailing from Panama City, FL USA passes us by as we watched from an Italian restaurant in English Harbour.

Antigua Yacht Club (AYC)

19 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Annette Brown
After watching the classic yachts race from on high, we went down into English Harbour to the AYC to have lunch and to walk the docks to see these monster ships close up.

Here is one of the medium sized classic participants - the 103' staysail schooner EROS built in 1939.

32nd Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta

19 April 2019 | English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies
Annette Brown
See more photos under the gallery section which will be under construction for a few days.

Here is the tall ship Rhea and tall ship Chronos, both 156’ long and both with wishbone sails going neck and neck.

We had a great view of the racing from high up above English Harbour on Shirley Heights.

TwoLoose on the hard - again!

18 April 2019 | Jolly Harbor Marina Antigua, West Indies
Annette Brown
It was a long day, the Thursday before Easter and we were glad to have it behind us.

Up around 0500, onto the boat in her berth for last minute preps, off to the marina office to pay our bill and finally the transit to the fuel pier where we topped off the tank.

Although we were scheduled for a 1330 pull, the travel lift had earlier ruptured a hydraulic hose, so we were delayed (in the very hot sun) in the lift process until about 1500.

Afterwards we returned to the villa we’d rented and crashed – sleeping almost non-stop for 10 hours!

Castaways Sunset w Buddha

14 April 2019
Annette Brown
Taking a break from our work schedule to enjoy probably our last dinner at Castaways for this season anyway. Genie & John of Island Time joined us.
Vessel Name: TwoLoose
Vessel Make/Model: IP45
Hailing Port: Everett, WA, USA
Crew: Captain Pete Cisek & Wife/Navigator Annette Brown
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Both of us are retired US Navy. Upon retirement 1/2006 we moved aboard our second TwoLoose (TL) - living aboard & cruising full time for the next 11 years. [...]
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This is the third sailboat "TwoLoose" we have owned; having purchased her in 2008. These are her specifics: Make/Model: Island Packet 45 (IP45) Year: 1998 (Hull #28) Length Over All (LOA) 45'3"/13.8m Length of Waterline (LWL) 37'3"/11.3m Beam: 13'4"/4m Draft: 5.2"/1.6m Height of Mast: [...]
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TwoLoose's Photos - Istanbul with Friends May 2014
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4 May: Judy arrives from her home in York, UK!
4 May: Hot! Hot! Hot!
4 May: This delicious looking steaming puff bread is what first drew us to this restaurant during our first visit to Istanbul - soon we discovered MOST of the local restaurants feature this!
5 May: The store name is "Ahtamara" & it is located right next to the Aloran restaurant. It was a challenge for the store to find wool carpet runners that would fit our somewhat restricted spaces on the boat as well as our desire for them to be compatible to our upholstery as well as the space.
5 May: The New Mosque located right next to the Egyptian Bazaar.
5 May: Taking a break before our walking tour of the city
5 May: The Spice Bazaar - otherwise known as the Egyptian Bazaar "...got its name "Egyptian Bazaar" because it was built with the revenues from the Ottoman area of Egypt in 1660. The bazaar was (and still is) the center for spice trade in Istanbul. The building itself is part of the complex of the New Mosque. The revenues obtained from the rented shops inside the bazaar building were used for the upkeep of the New Mosque." Wikipedia
5 May: the first of several tours we took through the company we
5 May: Turkish Delight is credited with all sorts of "positive qualities" :-)
5 May: Ceramic tile is seen everywhere in the city. This is a building corner in an ancient han otherwise referred to as a "caravanserai", a roadside inn located along the back streets between the Spice Market and The Grand Bazaar.
5 May: This is the large door used to protect travelers staying in this caravanserai during ancient times... "travelers could rest and recover from a day
5 May: STILL today, this long standing manual method of moving goods through the narrow & crowded streets of Istanbul
5 May: High above the rest of us bustling about the back streets are these remains of a "bird palace".
5 May: located inside the Grand Bazaar stands one of the original buildings comprising the larger bazaar.
6 May: Cats Rule! They are everywhere you look in the city! Rodent Control? If so, keeping animals around does not explain why we also see so many dogs!
6 May: Another large mosque located on the ground above the Galata Bridge.
6 May: Jennetta & John arrived from Seattle, WA on 5 May. On this day we had a short CONTEXT tour focused on the Old City - the area we were all staying. Here we are enjoying seafood for lunch in a restaurant UNDER the Galata Bridge.
6 May From left to right: John, Jennetta, AB and Pete enjoying a rain free sunset over the Blue Mosque in the background.
This sign is posted on the grounds of the Blue Mosque as a "heads-up" to non-Muslims that on Fridays access to this mosque is limited. "Friday is the most important day of the week for the Muslims. However, it is not a day of rest as the Sabbath is in other religions since they are free to carry on their daily duties on this day. All able adult male Muslims are obliged to attend the Friday prayers held in early afternoon; even though women can attend the meetings, they are not obliged to do so." ASK
6 May: Hagia Sophia, previously a church then a mosque but now a museum, is situated directly across from the Blue Mosque... as first timers in the city we kept the 2 similar looking buildings clear in our mind by counting their respective minarets - Blue has 6; Hagia has 4.
8 May: AB & Peter take a day trip to the area outside Istanbul called Cappadocia - renowned for it
8 May: This hoodoo clearly looks like a camel but they are described as "a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland. Hoodoos, which may range from 5 to 150 feet tall, typically consist of relatively soft rock topped by harder, less easily eroded stone that protects each column from the elements. They generally form within sedimentary rock and volcanic rock formations. Hoodoos are found mainly in the desert in dry, hot areas. In common usage, the difference between hoodoos and pinnacles or spires is that hoodoos have a variable thickness often described as having a "totem pole-shaped body". A spire, on the other hand, has a smoother profile or uniform thickness that tapers from the ground upward. Hoodoos range in size from that of an average human to heights exceeding a 10-story building. Hoodoo shapes are affected by the erosional patterns of alternating hard and softer rock layers. Minerals deposited within different rock types cause hoodoos to have different colors throughout their height." Wikipedia
8 May: not to be out done by a rock - the real thing is available for a close inspection.
8 May: here Pete stands before the most famous of all the Cappadocia rock formations - referred to as the Fairy Chimneys!
10 May: Almost daily we visited the Break Time Café around the corner from our SiDE Hotel - great lattes, cappocinos and Baklava!
10 May: our favorite barista at the "Break Time Café" bids us farewell.
 
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About Us

Who: Captain Pete Cisek & Wife/Navigator Annette Brown
Port: Everett, WA, USA