Getting Close

Well I am getting closer, winds  are droping but the sea,s are still running north at 8 to 10 feet.Wed the sea are droping to 2ft from the SE and winds south at 10k. Will leave here tomorrow moring to no name harbour and get ready to jump accross …

The Perfect Rum Punch

Rum punch in the Caribbean is a given. Yet … so many varieties!! The best that we have found so far, however, is what Antiguans call an ”old fashioned rum punch”. Trust me when I say we are not talking about the utterly bland and overly sweet pre…

The Perfect Rum Punch

Rum punch in the Caribbean is agiven. Yet … so many varieties!! The best that we have found so far,however, is what Antiguans call an ”old fashioned rum punch”. Trust me when Isay we are not talking about theutterly bland and overly sweet pre-mad…

2011 condensed down to 15 minutes

I’ve been playing around with Microsoft’s Movie Maker a little yesterday and today.  I like it.  Since we stayed in Beaufort SC an extra couple of days, I had time to put together a video and send it off to YouTube.  Looking back on 2011…

Tentacles

February 13, 2012     Happy Birthday Ryan!Hope you have a great day Bink! Seems like we’ve been here in the marina now forever. It has a way of attaching tentacles to the boat and not letting it out of their grasp. About the time yo…

NZ Ship Despair

Ship Despair? Not really, it is Ship Repair but it is close to Circa and is OK as a staging point – hardly a resort marina. Hence our nickname. Not a great place but some wonderful neighbors. Anyway, across the … Continue reading →

Sunday February 12, 2012 Update

{Betsy}  It is Sunday, February 12, 2012.  Wind speed last night as we doubled up on our lines was about 40 MPH.  The wind chill was about 20 and the high temperature for today was about 40.  So, we are boat-bound and thought it a g…

Hangin’ out in Lauderdale

With slight breaks in the rain, we’ve had a chance to do a little sightseeing in the very narrow land spit between the Inter-coastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean.  Las Olas city marina is only 2 blocks from the Ft. Lauderdale beach, and we’ve walked by the water, visited interesting restaurants, and engaged in much […]

Sunday, February 12, 2012

This has been a very boring day. I didn’t sleep all day like the past two days, but I’m not moving around a lot either. John continues to wait on me hand and foot. It’s hard to sit here and let that happen. Every day gets a little bit better. Bot…

Saint Petersburg Florida

We left Apalachicola before 8am Friday morning heading for the Government cut that is the direct path to the gulf. The marina manager told us to stay to the green side of the cut so we wouldn’t hit bottom and we followed his advice. We …