My tools. Yes, the Diet Coke is definitely needed. This is gonna require some paying attention.Note the furrowed brow. That’s the paying attention part. I have always wanted to splice lines so I can make my dad proud. He’s kind of a knot geek. Weird ho…
Days 20, 21 & 22 – Dauphine Island to Orange Beach
We spent a rather restless night anchored off Dauphine Island and got up very early to head for Orange Beach ahead of another front coming in. Once we crossed Mobile Bay everything settled down and we enjoyed the scenery along each side of the interc…
Rosemary Beach to Bay Point Marina
After our Goodbyes to Sunshine and the boys Joshua brought us back to the boat this morning, we stopped at a Winn Dixie to pick up some things we needed. We plan to go across the bay to St Andrew’s marina for a day so I can go to a nearby clinic t…
Savannah Georgia – Isle of Hope. Quite a delight!
We arrived at Isle of Hope Marina soon after noon. The boys raced to shore and smiled at me. We found a number of our friends on the dock, who had stayed in Isle of Hope an extra day due to the wind and weather. The marina offers a “deal” of full price…
City Dock of Beaufort, Beaufort, South Carolina
Had a visit last night about 10 pm from US Customs and Border Protection Agency. Two agents apparently regularly walk the docks in Savannah, and they just wanted to see our documentation. Turns out that when we entered the…
Seclusion in paradise!
Secluded, private and undisturbed…that is our island for the night! We cruised from Highborne Cay north through the shallows north of Ship Channel Cay through the Middle Grounds and decided that we would bypass Nassau. The anchorages in Nassau are ma…
Marsh Harbour to Little Harbour
Today we traveled from Marsh Harbour to Little Harbour (one of our favorite spots in the Abacos). Upon arrival we discovered there was another Fat Bottom Girl in the harbour; a 48′ Endeavor Cat. We had the pleasure of meeting…
Lou Castel, Vieux Ville, Nice, France
Today was Eric’s big day–he was scheduled to do a presentation and be part of a panel. He left the hotel extra early this morning to meet with the other panel members to do a run through before the conference started. Sadly, Eric’s session was the very last of the entire conference, so it didn’t […]
Oops! Web Mistake Spills Naval Nuclear Secrets
The Ministry of Defence has admitted that secret information about the UK’s nuclear powered submarines was made available on the internet by mistake. A technical error on a UK secret document meant that blacked-out parts of an online MoD report could be read by pasting into another document. Details were reported to include expert opinion on […]
#33 April 2010 South Beach – Ft. Lauderdale – Palm Beach – Stuart – Palm Beach, Miami
On our journey north we stopped in Miami Beach for the first time and anchored in front of Julio Inglesais home on Star Island.
Just 1 of a parade of cruise ships that passed our anchorage in Miami.
Our friends, Kate and Steve, were alre…
