A WEEK IN REVIEW – in other words we’ve been too busy to blog. So just to catch you up on a few things – here goes. One of the projects that Deb wanted done this year, was new covers for the saloon and pilot house cushions. Well as of…
Hell’s Playbook
Quite often you’ll hear us speaking about the weather and how moving the boat from one location to another is directly related to the weather. The weather also plays a major factor while at anchor. Especiall…
54 more days
We have our slip at Delta Bay Marina reserved starting in April! We wanted to go back to Willow Bern but we are too high for the old side and we don't want to pay for a 50' slip on the new side for our 35' boat. The smaller slips on the new…
Pinas Bay and Panama City
Air conditioning is up and running! Our air conditioning went down on a Tuesday afternoon; we had the part from the States on late Thursday afternoon; and the part installed on Friday morning. We felt very fortunate with the timing. We departed Pana…
Changing systems!
Attention trawlerblogs.com friends (and foes). We’re going to be switching blogging platforms over the next few days to accommodate some cool new features over here that you are really going to like. Unfortunately, that means that we will be offline for a little while. Don’t worry though – we’ll be back and better than ever!
02/11/2012 A YACHT CLUB’S INAGURAL BOAT PARADE AND PARTY
02/11/2012 BOQUERON, PUERTO RICOSATURDAYO NM TRAVELED DOCKED AT CLUB NAUTICO DE BOQUERON, PUERTO RICO $1.38/FT OVERALL WITH POWER AND WATERSUNRISE: 6:58 AMSUNSET: 6:28 PMAh, a good and full night’s sleep after completing an all-nighter is a good thin…
Happy Birthday, Mark Philips
Last night we surprised our old friend Mark with a party in Memphis. It was fun.The Big Five O doesn’t seem so large when it finally arrives. I have the big Six O coming up which seems completely wrong. I keep counting the years to be sure I’ve done th…
Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Workshop
We were going to leave Beaufort for Hilton Head on Saturday, but the forecast was for very blustery winds.NW WINDS INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 KT WITH GUSTS TO 40KT…DIMINISHING TO 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS TO 35 KT LATE.Seeing as how we are not on any kind o…
Engine Room Tour
We are back in NZ and the first few days are filled with bringing Iron Lady back to life. Since part of this involved the engine room, I thought it might be of interest to do a brief tour for … Continue reading →
FPB 97 – The Wicked One Revealed
“The 83ft-long (25m) wave-piercer…could easily be mistaken for the spawn of the Royal Navy with its unpainted battleship grey, all-aluminum body. But that day, in those conditions, it was the only boat that I would have wanted to climb aboard to face the English Channel.” –Motor Boat & Yachting The sun has set, the chimes […]
