Matt’s Birthday

This weekend was Matt’s birthday.  We went out to dinner Friday with his family then went to the yacht club and hung out with our friends for a bit, then spent the night on the boat.  Saturday we were race committee for the John Pitcher …

Sunday, 3/6/11

Boca Chica NAS marina…In just a few days we’ll be loosening the lines from the dock here and heading north to CT.  Our expected arrival date will be in the first week of May.  This week, we were invited to lunch by our friend Roger who we met several times on our way down the […]

Commissioning – A Masterpiece in Progress

If you’re like me and never experienced the commissioning of a new boat, you must be asking yourself at this point, “aren’t they done yet?”  On Friday, Serenity will be in Florida for 2 months – for 2 long weekends, one in January and one last mon…

Travel Log Naples to North Palm Beach

Today is March 6 and we are at Palm Beach Marina. I will attempt to catch up on the blog since our computer hacking problem. The travel log will preceed the picrtures, because I had such a difficult time putting in the pictures, I did not want to take …

Jaipur Carpet Showroom and the City Palace

One of our stops was a carpet show room and though the rugs were very lovely and tempting, Randal is holding out for a “Turkish rug” from Turkey. Linda, Randal and I had warned Sandeep and our guide that we weren’t in the market and we warned the…

Recap of 2010 Season

2010 Hours Logged: 113.25The 2010 season was unusual in that we had relatively little work to do in the spring, but we got started late anyway due to other obligations. Our first real weekend on the water didn’t happen until May 15, a full one month l…

North Palm Beach Marina, North Palm Beach, Florida

The restaurant we had dinner at on Friday nightAt dinner at Panama Hattie’sRain and storms last night, warm and sunny with a few clouds this morning. Nancy and I walked to the Presbyterian Church; it is a big church with services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a…

Seas 2 Day

Sunday, March 6. 2011

Mike LindaAnother gorgeous sunset. Joan, me, and an experimental plane at the Aviation Musem. The wings are not there because they are being painted. Friday we met C & J on their way back to Cincinnati. They had visited us a few days then went to …

Blog Changes

I probably should post a recap of 2010 before the 2011 season gets underway, but before that, here are a couple interesting notes (interesting to me, at least…).Last spring (April 2010), I dumped my increasingly unreliable Windows Mobile phone for a …

Recap of Remaining 2009 Weekends

Hours logged: 36.0Wow, it is SO much easier to post brief updates and pictures to Facebook than it is to keep up a blog. Facebook combined with my laziness has nearly left this blog for dead… So this is what it has come to: bullet-point posts to r…