We crossed over to the Bahamas yesterday, a fairly uneventful ocean trip. We are currently at the West End having cleared customs. Had hoped to travel today but high winds kept everyone in port. The plan is to be off to an anchorage at Great Sale…
Captain Jack
We met Captain Jack in Cabo. He lives on Tortuga Nordhavn 7616 owned by Doug and Jeanne JacksonCaptain Jack travels in style on Tortuga. He has his own Stidd helm chair that he sits in while underway, along with a fire hydrant on the bowHopefully Abby …
Iron Man, no Water Man!
Wow, we are sitting here in the anchorage of Lake Sylvia in Ft. Lauderdale. It is a little windy, about 15 – 20 knots and as I am looking out of the window I can’t believe what I am seeing: (Continued…)
Flying fish
We woke up to a dozen flying fish on our deck the other day. One even managed to land on the flybridge! They left messy blue smudges, that Bill couldn’t wait to wash off…
Marathon
After three days of traveling we arrived in Boot key harbor, The trip was wonderful a great day with flat sea’s arrived at 5pm a 10 hour day. But today was another problem after problem First the dingy that I spent 7 days fixing and repairing patc…
62 Nordhavn on the Rocks
This is a 62 Nordhavn on the rocks a few miles south of Magdalena Bay, so sad…
Interesting sign on the marina gate…
Really?!!?
Bridges and more bridges
If you’ve ever traveled on the ICW, you can relate to the nuisance of the draw bridges. Of course that’s also true for the road traffic which is being interrupted by the opening schedules of the bridges on busy waterways, which they might see this…
What Great Service From Filter Boss!
I installed two Filter Boss systems on Drift Away when we were having all those fuel issues a few weeks ago. This is a very cool and ingenious system. If a filter starts to clog, a pressure sensor sends an alarm to the helm station an…
