We are finally settling in at Legacy Harbour Marina in Ft. Myers. The whole B-dock gang were there to greet us and we arrived just in time for docktails, yippee – it feels like coming home to us. Between the Tuesday night dinners, Thursday …
01/22/2012 PREPARING TO LEAVE THE TCI
01/22/2012 PROVOSUNDAY0 NMDOCKED AT TURTLE COVE MARINA IN PROVIDENCIALESSUNRISE AT PROVIDENCIALES: 6: 30 AM SUNSET AT PROVIDENCIALES: 5:32 PMThe last coat of varnish (making it 6 coats on all the brightwork) was applied before our move from these lovel…
01/21/2012 SNORKELING THE REEF AND EXPLORING IN con-QUEST
01/21/2012 PROVO SATURDAY0 NMDOCKED AT TURTLE COVE MARINA IN PROVIDENCIALESSUNRISE AT PROVIDENCIALES: 6: 30 AM SUNSET AT PROVIDENCIALES: 5:31 PMDan the Man got two more coats of varnish on the brightwork, on in the morning and the second in the late af…
Blue Angel Sky Show
Another fun thing we did was watch the Blue Angel Skyshow over San Francisco Bay on October 9th. Many boaters like to take their boats out to watch the planes perform directly overhead. We don’t like to take Kosmos out … Continue reading →
Not quite Identical
Not Quite Identical (Continued…)
Flying low to Lauderdale
Yesterday was interesting… Bob, one of our dock buddies, was taking this boat back to Ft Lauderdale and asked if I wanted to ride along.The Van Dutch is so totally different than Istaboa that I figured a run out in a fairly rough sea in such a boat w…
Spending a Lazy Day in Bow-fort, NC
It’s not pronounced “Bee-yew–fort”. That would be Beaufort, South Carolina. It’s “Bow-fort”, North Carolina..Beaufort is a nice little town, population about 4,300. I like small towns. After living in Stamford, Connecticu…
Key West or Key Weird??
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the southernmost point of the continental U.S. From “absolute paradise” to “too strange for words”, Key West engenders strong feelings and reactions in all who visit the little tropical island only 90 miles from Cuba. What do we think after spending a month right downtown in the center […]
COST OF THE CRUISING LIFE IN THE EASTERN MED
During the last two years we’ve kept detailed records of our cruising costs. Our blog entries dated 16 April 2011 and 10 June 2011 gave quite some detail on this, including an intended cruising budget for 2011 of NZ$90k (approx. US$71k).As a general …
Cumberland Island, Georgia
The depth sounder alarm beeped at 6 ft and kept dropping as I quickly slipped Puffin into reverse. But even at less than half speed her momentum carried her onto the muddy shoal before we could stop. The bow lifted slightly and Puffin found herself t…
