The north eastern part of the US got clobbered by a storm yesterday that brought record early snow. Just west of Manasquan Inlet (where we are) got close to a foot of snow. We had a few flurries here but that was it. Looking at the ne…
Meteorological Bomb Coming?
“Hi Steve. Speaking of storms and weather patterns what do you think about the low off the east coat. Looked ominous on the surface charts and even more so on the 500 mb charts. Some weather sites are calling it a low pressure “bomb”. I have read your Mariners Weather Handbook a few times through […]
FPB 64 – Going Smoothly
While our usual fair is more extreme weather than this video depicts, there are some lessons for us here as well, not the least of which is the efficiency at work you are about to watch your computer screen. The video was shot by Brian Rickard on a recent cruise with the Henrys aboard the […]
Sat Oct 29
We are in Telemar Marina in Melbourne Beach. Had a wonderful dinner with wonderful friends Paul & Connie Murgo.We had some rain today while traveling from Mosquito Lagoon where we anchored last night –great night, The rain was light to nothing but did…
Sat Oct 29
We are in Telemar Marina in Melbourne Beach. Had a wonderful dinner with wonderful friends Paul & Connie Murgo.We had some rain today while traveling from Mosquito Lagoon where we anchored last night –great night, The rain was light to nothing but did…
Joe Wheeler State Park to Decatur, AL
Date October 29, 2011 Day 123Departure Joe Wheeler State Park, Rogersville, AL 9:20 am …
Happy Halloween!
We celebrated Halloween last night at the home of our friends Lois and Gerry and it was all "treats." And though you can’t tell it from my photos there was a very lively full house!
Halloween at Lois and Gerry’s
Lois and G…
History Lessons
Enough of being troubled by troubles, Ron and I had a productive and fun day! In the morning, we played around with our stern anchor. During our travels we’ve found that there are many island anchorages that have swells which cause Equinox to roll (som…
Saturday, October 29, 2011
All week we have been looking forward to the Farmer’s Market in town. It was drizzling this morning, but we walked to town and spotted the booths that were set up for the Farmer’s Market. Once we arrived and started walking around, we were disappoint…
Just Believe Panama Canal Transit-27&28 October, 2011
I thought I would recap the canal transit using both the pictures we took as well as the picture that was taken in Texas for us.
Departure from Flamenco marina: we were up at 5am and had everything ready when the line handlers showed up at …
