This site is designed and maintained to share the cruising and tennis activities of Esther and Dennis Bruckel. We’ve been fortunate enough in our retirement (10+ years so far) to put 8,000 hours and perhaps 50,000 miles of coastal cruising, Intracoastal Waterway cruising and inland cruising on our  “pocket trawler”, Albin 27, Sadie B.  In 1996 we crewed several months on a small sailboat, S/V Panacea, passagemaking in the South Pacific from the Caribbean to Papette, Tahiti

Through contacts we have made cruising we were lucky enough to be involved for several years producing 25 TrawlerFest events around the country. Through these events we developed a network of fellow cruiser friends which allowed us to become involved with cruising large Nordhavn yachts doing deliveries and passagemaking which continues today.

After our relationship with TrawlerFest ended, Dennis took on a part time position as a Cruising Editor with Waterway Guide publications. He covers waterways around New York City, the Hudson River, Champlain Canal, Lake Champlain, Richelieu Canal, St. Lawrence River, Ottawa River, Rideau Canal, Trent Severn Canal, Lake Ontario, and all of the New York State Canals waterways.

More recently Dennis has established a tennis teaching and racquet stringing enterprise in Kissimmee, Florida where we winter.

Esther fills her retirement with Dennis and his boating plans.  She loves quilting and usually has several projects in different stages.  

Click on any of the adjacent links to read about:

Coastal, Intracoastal and Inland river cruising from 1994-2006 on our Sadie B

Cruising on other boats including a delivery of a new Nordhavn 57 from California to Florida via the Panama Canal, and several cruises on the Nordhavn 55, Salty Dawg, owned by friends Captain David and Lowie Bock, including crossing the Atlantic in the Med Bound 07 Rally, and Cruising the South Pacific on S/V Panacea

Boating Articles in various publication about the Bruckels and “How to Articles” by Dennis