Summer Plans

You can tell Spring has arrived to the PNW.  Days are longer, grass is growing and the rain is warmer.  Everywhere you look people are starting on outdoor chores. Our cruising plans begin with a departure the last week of April or the first …

The Neighborhood

We even have the White Picket fence to keep the child contained.  (Continued…)

Our House, In the Middle of the Street

Yup this is home sweet home. We are meeting some of our neighbors, yesterday there was a great Aloha party for the cruisers at the marina and anchorage. The food was very good. Tim & Gina zipped by on their way home from church this afternoon to ask…

Rock Sound

Saturday, March 26, 2011, Day 181. As we were leaving Half Moon Bay, another Holland America cruise ship, the New Amsterdam, arrived. Virtually every cruising boat there was headed north with us to Rock Sound, which turned out to be a very pleasant a…

Bridget goes Ashore

Bridget is getting more comfortable goin’ ashore and seems almost smiley riding in the bow. (View Post…)

Northern Lights Wavenet

This year at the Miami Boat Show, Northern
Lights announced their new Wavenet generator
digital monitoring system. Wavenet was installed on Dirona a
couple of months prior to the announceme…

3/26/2011 DINNER KEY MARINA: SAM AND JOHN TAKE THEIR DOUBLES MATCH

SATURDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 0 NMSUNRISE:    7:19          SUNSET:   7:34HIGH:           87    &nbsp…

Quest at Sea

Dania Beach, FL – 3/26/11

OK here’s the deal …. I know I was supposed to wash the top part of the boat today but by the time we got breakfast and showers, it was too hot … well into the upper 80’s. So … the three guys (Skip, Ken & me) decided to go for an early aftern…

Another week about to

pass us by and not a whole lot to show for it. I was able to get the remainder of the vapor barrier up. It was just one of those little nagging jobs that I didn’t finish last fall. It wasn’t going to get done with the car in the shed so I at least had …

Sure doesn’t feel like Spring! Brrrrrrr

We had originally planned to leave Ma. on Sunday but we still have things to do and since the boat will not be ready to splash for a few more days we decided to stay an extra day or 2.  BTW it may be spring according to the calendar by its still C…