CRUISE ALERT!!!!! Upcoming Cruising Convoy to Beaufort NC!! Spring has arrived and fellow cruisers are making ready for shakedown cruises!! Skinny Dippin’ and some of her Friends will be cruising to the NC coast soon!! Chec…
Cocoa Beach, FL to New Smyrna Beach, FL
Date April 2, 2012 Day 279Departure Cocoa Municipal Marina, Cocoa, FL 7:40 am Arrival …
Epoxy! Wohoo! Epoxy!
The bulwarks are now permanently part of the hull! :-)Sorry no pics. Boring stuff anyways.Notice to all involved: The cats are fired. Every last deadbeat, fat, lazy and furry one of them. I reached into a box to get a pair of latex gloves and low and b…
BACK ABOARD ENVOY ON MARMARIS
We had a long, but event-free journey from Auckland, and arrived back in Marmaris, southern Turkey, on Saturday morning, finding that everything aboard Envoy, out of the water on the hardstand was pretty how much we’d left her four months ago – clean…
Year 2, Day 7 – Gloucester Point, VA
After hearing back from the boatyard that the oil cooler was fine, they recommended we contact a Cummins repairman to see what could be wrong. This repairman has to come from Chesapeake which is about 1-2 hours away and will be here tomorrow. We…
Weather
One of our last tasks was to fuel up – YIKES!!! Almost $800 worth of diesel!!! But that should easily get us to Ketchikan. Maybe by mid-summer fuel prices will have come down!@#?! I suppose that is really wishful thinking! So now everything on ou…
Good Boat Karma
Five days out of La Paz and we couldn't ask for a better trip. The weather has been perfect, sunny and calm, and the boat has been performing perfectly. After months of sitting in a marina we were concerned that some of the boat systems may have be…
The old stomping ground…
As posted earlier, Crew Istaboa is seriously searching for a new dirt dwelling.And, yes I know, there are those who feel there is no better life than full time living aboard our boats, but we’ve been doing the cruising thing for many years and we like …
03/26/2012 THROUGH 04/01/2012 STILL IN ST. MARTIN
ST. MARTINDuring this past week we experienced some extremely humid and hot days that had us all whining and an unbearable visitation of mosquitoes at the Hanson’s charming abode. Dick, who is never bothered by the pesky critters, develop…
Tempus Fugit
April Already, Time Flies (Continued…)
