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  …

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…
A walk all around Male’, literally!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Hulhumale’ Anchorage, Maldives
A Walk Around Male’
Yesterday, Saturday, Randal and I went to Male’ just to go for a walk. We can only stay on the boat for so long before we eat everything in sight or nap too much. We get up…
Layin’ Low in Marathon
The bad grammar notwithstanding, this is what we’ve been doing lately. The above title is taken from an original song by an expatriated Marathonian that we heard the other night at Dockside. Yes, this hallowed and famous place has re-opened – live mu…