Alex enjoyed our visit to the condo, and he preferred sleeping on a pile of hats/caps/visors that Jim brought back from the boat. His collection had grown considerably in almost seven years. While Alex relaxed, Jim and Su raced around to do…
Palmetto Moon 2012-04-30 09:14:00
As always, the weather did not cooperate with our schedule. On Saturday, April 28, we finally left Marina Grande Dunes and headed north up the ICW to Wrightsville Beach, NC. On Sunday, April 29, while cruising to Morehead City, we met up wi…
Palmetto Moon 2012-04-30 09:14:00
As always, the weather did not cooperate with our schedule. On Saturday, April 28, we finally left Marina Grande Dunes and headed north up the ICW to Wrightsville Beach, NC. On Sunday, April 29, while cruising to Morehead City, we met up wi…
Water Dogs?
As you regular followers of this blog know, we don’t do much of anything in a “normal” way. We spent a winter aboard in Stamford, and are about to spend a summer in Savannah. We bought on old, tired trawler, fixed it up a bi…
April 29 – St. Michaels, MD
Perfect DaySan Domingo Creek – AnchorageWe woke up to a gorgeous day…clear blue, beautiful skies.St. Michaels is having their annual WineFest this weekend, so the town wasfull of people and activities. We decided not to buy tickets to thetastings
So busy accomplishing "DICK ALL"
Well sort of. It was a weekend of running around mostly. Saturday was a supply run to the “Burg” and Sunday we took in, for the second time, the Tackaberry Collection. I don’t know if I told you about the Tackaberry Collection before but this is an ama…
04/23/2012 THROUGH 04/29/2012 FROM THE ABACOS TO THE USA
MONDAY 04/23/2012 GREEN TURTLE CLUB MARINAWe walked around the bay to the lovely Bluff House Marina (www.BluffHouse.com) for a breezy lunch on their deck that overlooks White Sound. This would make a great alternative to Green Club Marina in the …
The John Alden Schooner Constellation–Cruising In the Olden Days
This is a brief story about cruising in the olden days, just after World War II. It is also a story about how the Dashew family made their way to the (then) golden land of California. It starts with Stanley Dashew, the family patriarch, deciding at age 30 that he wanted to go cruising, seriously […]
At Anchor
The weather today was rainy – all day. A great day to do something inside the boat. Jerry spent a good portion of the day washing the boat using the rain water. My task for the day was to defrost the refrigerator – yippee! Yesterday we had dessert h…
Raising A Few Brows
The teak brows were probably the least attractive pieces of wood on the boat and a pain to keep up. All of the screws that secured them to the sides of the cabin have been a source of leaks that we knew we needed to deal with soon. We did some caulking…
