We have spent nearly 3 months on the river system from Chicago to Mobile. Too long? Long enough is my answer! This homemade sailing vessel (CharlieBrown) made of bamboo, plastic bottles and tarps was heading downbound, and b…
11/22/2011 ENJOYING THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM AS WE HEAD TO MOREHEAD CITY, NC
TUESDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 64 NM DOCKED AT: ($1.50 /FT W/P OVERALL) SUNRISE: 6:48 AM IN BELHAVEN SUNSET: 4:58 PM IN MOREHEAD CITY, NCHIGH: 73 LOW: 55What’s this fog stuff?? Mus…
Sunset
Sunset at MM765, just the end to another day in paradise on November 21st.. (View Post…)
Bridget Supervising
As we passed a large barge Bridget inspected. Our travels up to Jacksonville was in great weather. We anchored out at MM 765 in a quiet bay just off the ICW We were in for the night with 4 other boats. We had a quiet peaceful night, busted early and…
Wednesday, November 23…the day before Thanksgiving
7:34 am 7 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time
So this morning is bright and sunny and I have yet another load of laundry washing. Randal suggested that since it was sunny we should motorbike to Dipkarpaz and eat at our favorite restaurant…
25th Wedding Anniversary!
The colorful promenade along Philipsburg’s waterfrontWecelebrated our 25th wedding anniversary today with our good friends, the Baldonis, who were here in St.Maarten on a cruise. We were delighted that we all were on St. Maarten at the sametime, and ex…
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The part for the toilet arrived today and John went right to work on it. It turned out to be a hose clogged with calcium deposits from the salt / water. He struggled to get them apart and then struggled to get the new hoses put togethe…
Lunch Trip
The other Saturday (11/12/11) we had a boat project day planned out. It was such a nice day, though, we felt we had to take advantage of the good weather so we decided to take a little cruise instead. We had to leave early on Sunday to go t…
Moving Up to the BIG TIME
I can’t believe I forgot to post about this… If you look back to one of the first posts about PG II, you will read of the horrible tragedy of the much anticipated ice maker croaking after making one batch of ice. the one and only batch of…
Busted a move…
Yup, we finally threw off the lines and went for a boat ride. It feels good. We’ve been at dock for way too long.Woke at 5:00AM and got an early start. It’s a beautiful day and Istaboa is running well. The plan is to cross Okeechobee and spend the nigh…
