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 […]

Bustling Charleston
We received a call this weekend from our good friends Gene and Kathy wondering what was up as we have been remiss with our blog. Yes, it’s true. We finished our big push with the new ActiveCaptain functions last week and took a couple of days off …

Report From Onboard Jenny
Monday, April 04, 2011 10:05:17 AMLocation: Fernandina Beach, FLLatitude is 30 degrees 40.452 minutes north.Longitude is 81 degrees 28.168 minutes west.No recent weather observation is available. We left Pine Island early yesterday and a rising tide…

Istaboa’s Waypoints 2011-04-04 13:41:00
A friend sent this over… Looks like fun, but at $136,000.00 USD it’s little out of reach for folks like us. Interesting though.London (CNN) — Bored of jet skis? Banana boat rides not floating your boat anymore?Well, this summer you could be whizzing…
Good, Bad, and Ugly
The Good!
The big transport ship is supposed to arrive some time this week and then a few days later the 15 boats will start being loaded. After waiting around for so long it will be rush, rush, rush! We have …
Westward Ho
4/1-4/3 – The forecast was for improving weather on Friday, but not until afternoon. Unfortunately, by afternoon, the tide was low and we were afraid we couldn’t make it out of Black Sound. The consensus was to wait until Saturday morning and leave…

