We were up early and off the dock at St. Croix Marina by 0600…en route north, to either Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic, we weren’t exactly which. After looking at the weather and different stopping options, we decided to follow the southern co…
Pumps
As I contemplated once again the perennial question “Why is there always a pump breaking?” I finally decided to do a casual count of the pumps onboard KJ. When we finished a top-of-the-head rough survey, the number we came up with?29.No wonder it seems…
Legacy Harbor, Tuesday
It was cloudy this morning, it looked like rain for a while but it never did materialize. About 9 AM I took a walk to tropical Hardware, a good store about a mile away, I needed some parts for the dinghy.Later I went to the Municipal Marina w…
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Last night we had a pretty good storm. High winds and heavy rain all night long. We are anchored near Key Largo and worried that the anchor might not hold. We were fortunate that the anchor held and the wind and rain did no damage. Sleeping was a bit d…
Mar. 29 – Panama City, FL
Day 23 – Change of PlansPanama City MarinaWhat a difference a day can make. We had planned to move the boat to Destin this morning and then spend the rest if the day playing in the clear blue water and white sand. Mother Nature had a different plan…..
Long Island
No, not New York!
Long Island- Salt Pond settlement garage
The 56 nm run from Rum Cay to Thompson Bay on the west side of Long Island was uneventful, and even the fishing was a non-event, except that the lure that seemed…
The Tower of Pain and Suffering
has fallen. This is all that remains of that wonderful piece of engineering.That was the last major obstacle as well. The workshop floor is now open and I can begin assembly! ;-)Standby….. This is gonna get messy! 😉
Green Cove Springs City Pier, Green Cove Springs, Florida
The town pier is quite long, and well used by people fishing We do seem to take up the whole dock Sulphur spring Water runs from the spring to the pool, then out into the St. Johns riverThe Presbyterian church in town, built in 1884, is on…
Tuesday, 3/29/11
LaBelle Free City Dock. N 26′ 43.091′/W 081′ 39.319′ — Left Ft. Myers 10:12 a.m. since we only need to go 14 miles to the Franklin Lock for the 1300 opening which we made with plenty of time to spare so we anchored as 3rd in line to enter the lock. We had lunch during […]
Cold not in Florida
Well yes I got a cold, in Florida I ran away from the cold and damp weather to get away from such conditions but here I am filling my garage can with Kleenex and paper towel. Rick came by with Theraflu last night so I did manage to …
