Good Bye to Snook Bight Marina. After 5 weeks at Fort Myers Beach we are heading north to get ready to cross the Gulf again. This time will be going West; a directions we haven’t gone before.We have really enjoyed our stay here and wil…
4-8-2013, Cape Haze anchorage, Mile 36 on the GIWW
Good Bye to Snook Bight Marina. After 5 weeks at Fort Myers Beach we are heading north to get ready to cross the Gulf again. This time will be going West; a directions we haven’t gone before.We have really enjoyed our stay here and wil…
Good to be Back
We landed at Karimun Jawa, a small group of islands just southeast of Java, after a fantastic three day passage. A bit tired but eager to dive we pulled up to a wreck I know about, secured a mooring and were in the water by eight AM. It was good to…
Rare Weather
Rare weather
Now in the Southern Hemisphere we keep pushing southeast to Bali. I have done this route in reverse twice and always found calm seas with the scattered local squall. As we are traversing in the transitional time when the seasons change we …
Across the Equator, the fifth time.
Cruising as we do from Indonesia to Thailand and back tacks you across the equator, from one hemisphere to the other twice a year. I just did my fifth crossing of the earth’s middle, always a monumental affair. We crossed at the same location we…
Gannets and Gulls
t’s three bells into the afternoon watch or so it would be if Puffin had a real ship’s clock. Puffin’s running up the coast to Charleston, accompanied by friends on the sloop, Civil Twilight, pictured above. It’s bright and sunny but the wind isn’t …
Construction: Weeks 13 to 16 – Superstructure Lay-up
The photos we received for the construction week ending April 5 (Week 16) showed progress. They also contained the photo below showing a worker constructing the frame for steel the cradle. This is exciting news. The completed cra…
Come to the Fair
Nice morning this morning. The piers beside us are empty so I have nothing to add interest to the foreground so I just shot and enjoyed because that’s what I do even when I have no purpose. And then the water looked abstractly interesting and then a plane from Orlando flew up into the sun […]
Construction: Weeks 9 to 12 – Bulkheads & Tankage
Week 9 marked the start of bulkhead and tankage installation. The hull lay-up and stringer system have been completed.Bulkheads divide the boat into compartments and provide structural rigidity for the hull system. …
ENVOY TAKING SHAPE
Daily we progress and tick more items off a very long list without adding too many more. An unexpected issue has arisen with the Yanmar wing engine. Each year its prop shaft seal (which stops seawater coming into the boat) has to be checked after remov…
