We arrived back in Marmaris on Tues 12th after spending a great weekend with our daughter Amy in London in beautiful sunny weather.TRAVELWe flew to London using Emirates and were impressed – food and service great, roomy economy class seats, and a gene…
Slow Speed Motion Testing With Wind Horse
Vic Kuzmovich, NAIAD’s stabilizer guru, was out with us aboard Wind Horse today doing slow speed stabilization tests as a model for the FPB 112. There is a video link at the bottom of this blog so you can see the results for yourself.
The faster we go the more stable the ride, and our stabilizer […]
Friday, 4/15/11
N 33′ 45.567′/ W 078′ 48.050′ Osprey Marina, Myrtle Beach, SC Hauled anchor @ 7:25 a.m. Windlass resisted its job of pulling up the anchor so Luke had to pull 70 feet of chain plus 44 lbs. of anchor. Got my workout this a.m. Sunny, 21 kts. from east. Current against us all day. Slowed cruising […]
April 15 – Tarpon Springs, FL
Day 40 – Time To Move OnThe Landing at Tarpon SpringsThe marina we are officially staying at is across the river from where our boat is. They didn’t have room for us last weekend at the marina…so they put us at a private dock next to the Sp…
Wednesday and Thursday; April 13 and 14, 2011
Wednesday (Coquina Yacht Club to South Harbour Village Marina, NC): Left about 08:30 and stopped 1 mile down the waterway at Crickett Cove Marina at Mile 345.0. They have the cheapest fuel in this area; Gas $3.70 and Diesel $3.65. We …
Savannah City Dock, Savannah, Georgia
Wow! We’ve returned to civilization. Much of yesterday and this morning were spent going through very lonely areas on the ICW, nothing in sight but marsh, with some trees in the distant background. Cell phone coverage was spotty at best. Then we came p…
New Orleans-Day two
AquariumRiding the streetcarStreetcar driverWe went back into the city for the day since we couldn’t cruise and bad weather was coming. Took a cab into the city and had them drop us off at the beginning of the the streetcar route uptown. We rode it all…
New Orleans-Day two
AquariumRiding the streetcarStreetcar driverWe went back into the city for the day since we couldn’t cruise and bad weather was coming. Took a cab into the city and had them drop us off at the beginning of the the streetcar route uptown. We rode it all…
Cambridge Cay
He’s sitting at the cockpit table
Our short cruise from Staniel Cay to Cambridge Cay took just over two hours. Conditions were ideal, light and variable winds, sunny skies. As we left Staniel and turned to head north, …
