I got in touch with Enterprise Car rental about a car today. they picked me up at the marina at 11:30Once that was complete I drove over to a nearby hospital to have my blood/coumadin requirement tested. From the hospital I drove to a huge West M…
Monday 4/4/11
Patrick AFB Marina, Fl Very windy today. Whitecaps out on Banana River and palm trees swaying to and fro. We’re glad we’re not tugging today. There’s a Riverside Dining Facility that we can dine on military fare at discounted prices. Many other military bases like Norfolk, Quantico and the Groton sub base have eliminated the […]
CAROL’S BACK!!!
Hi all, I made it! My flight to Toronto was uneventful. But only had one hour to catch my flight to Miami. Still in line at Customs behind about 100 people with 5 minutes to my flight. Let me tell you I had a sweat goin’ o…
Hontoon State Park, Deland, Florida
We are docked at the greatest place, a state park with good docks, electricity, good protected spot along the St Johns River. And they only charge $20 per day to dock here. We left Georgetown this morning after one of the rougher nights we have spent o…
Out of Left Field
First let us say, in case you can’t tell from all these blog entries, that we adore our boat. Buying and moving aboard our new Selene 53 was the best thing we’ve ever done. It seemed like a wild move at the time, since we’d never owned a boat and…
Monday, April 4, 2011
I’m sorry that I didn’t post anything yesterday. During Happy Hour my back began to hurt. By the time Happy Hour was over, it hurt bad enough that I took Ibuprofen, skipped dinner, and went to bed with a heating pad. This morning I felt a lot better. Y…
Sayonara Japan, Aloha Hawaii
Sayonara Japan, Aloha Hawaii
5 April 2011
MV Starr is departing from Osaka this afternoon at 1230, Tuesday, April 5 in Japan
We anticipate that the passage will take us 3 weeks, so our ETA will be sometime around 27 April to 1 May.
You can fol…
Sayonara Japan, Aloha Hawaii
Sayonara Japan, Aloha Hawaii
5 April 2011
MV Starr is departing from Osaka this afternoon at 1230, Tuesday, April 5 in Japan
We anticipate that the passage will take us 3 weeks, so our ETA will be sometime around 27 April to 1 May.
You can fol…
How do you handle the VAT-problem…
…when staying longer at the same place, for example when you left Wind Horse in UK during winter 2009? As far as I’m informed, VAT(possibly plus customs fees & extra taxes) is charged if you stay > 3 months in the EC. How do other countries deal with this? If you want to talk about […]
Putting The Aft Deck To Work
We just had to share this cool photo Brian Rickard sent a few minutes ago (too late for the preceding blog). While three divers clean fresh scallops (left bottom corner of the photo) at the starboard corner work station, another is grilling their production on the barbecue (with only two of the crew in management […]
