October 17, 2011Calabash Creek, NC33º52.39 N – 078º34.19WWe love our family! Here we were, planning a leisurely trip down the ICW to visit our son Phil and his wife Tara in Myrtle beach when all our plans were turned turtle.The request …
Deltaville Refit
Thank you, Capt. Bill Crump and Mary, for your hospitality!October 12, 2011Deltaville, VAIt’s always nice to go back to places you know and reconnect with friends. We left Annapolis looking for warmth and, if we never found it in the weather,…
Exhaust and Engine Cooling
Lots of engine room work has been completed over the last few weeks. We fabricated a nice little header tank for the coolant that includes a level gauge/alarm that will ring to the wheelhouse if coolant is low. Most of the cooling system plumbing is co…
Boat Renaming Ceremony
If you recall my previous post, I wrote about the new Filter Boss systems working great, but filling full of water. I removed over five gallons of water from our fuel tanks before giving up for the night. Yesterday morning, I pulled t…
What day is it? Where are we, anyway?
Oneday is blurring into another here…night follows day, sleep follows watch, seafollows sky. The weather has been favorable, so we just keep on moving south! We’ve simply been in transit, and not stopped anywhere, so the only common denominator each …
Heading South With The Crowd
We’re on our way south, with the crowd. At the beginning of the Intra Coastal Waterway, Great Bridge, near Norfolk, Virginia, things are a bit crowded. But they quickly thin out, and for the most part we’ve been able to find the quiet waterways and anchorages which are to our liking. As we mentioned on […]
Sunday, October 23, 2011
It felt very strange to not watch the Bengals play football today. Instead, John and Norm drove Norm’s car back to Palm Coast Marina to get our van. Palm Coast has a bike rack in front of the ship store with a lot of rusted and abandoned looking bike…
Snap, Crackle and Pop
We managed to arrive in Long Beach last night after a five day non stop cruise down the Oregon, California coast line. We were all looking forward to a good nights sleep… Well, as we settled in for the night and laid our heads down on our pillo…
Trip to Panama City
The trip from Los Suenos to Panama City was interesting. The first day was pretty rough and all three of us felt bad. After that things got a lot better. We saw a lot of trash (large trees, logs, brush and 4×4 pieces of wood) in the water du…
Harbor area farmers market
The prices don’t compare to those in the Turkish Pazars, but the flavors are wonderful!!!
