Back to carpentry for a bit. We are getting close to finalizing the design and layout of the wheelhouse helm. I wanted to get the ceiling done before any of the helm stuff gets built and installed since the ceiling work makes such a mess. Another bonus…
Land Based Responsiblities – AKA Ball and Chain
As you may have noticed, we haven’t posted since May of last year. We returned from the most wonderful 6 week trip through the Abacos and Exumas to complete chaos. Let’s just say the fit had hit the shan….. While cruising…
Miami at last
At last, Miami Yacht Club {although closed today} 4 days of so,so weather and I have not been off the boat but I made it. Have learned lots about handling the boat by myself over long periods of time. Some I can say on the blog others I will leave for …
Lovely Lee
We had to take a photo with Lee and this boat! Isn’t he Lovely??? We where anchored in Puerto Escondido.
Superbowl Sushi
There a number of excellent qualities about being in the Bahamas on a boat for months on end. While the local cuisine can be excellent it does lack in a very important aspect; sushi. We have become quite attached to having a good sushi meal from …
Trawlerfest 2012
Since we’ve been dock dwellers for a week or so we decided to blow the stink off and drive over to Ft. Lauderdale to attend the boat show portion of Trawlerfest and kick some rub rails. We blasted out of town around 8:20 am and went about 20 miles befo…
Digital camera choices
We purchased our first digital camera, a Canon
PowerShot Pro90 IS, in 2002. Many of our pictures are taken from a boat, with
the subject often at a distance. So we wanted a long lens to suc…
Stuck in Fairhope
We had planned to leave Fairhope this morning at 6:30, but we are sitting on the bottom in our slip. We knew this was a possibility, but thought that we could power out of the slip. So we are waiting for the tide to change to depar…
