We spent a couple of days at Thompson Bay to provision (the pickings were slim), catch up on email (and meet up with friends at Island Breeze) and top off the fuel tanks with a couple hundred gallons of diesel (with the way the fuel prices are rising i…
Life’s2Short 2011-03-23 07:34:00
Sarasota ShenanigansOn March 16th we left St. Petersburg for Sarasota, covering about forty miles over a five-hour period on a beautiful, sunny Wednesday. Several of our boating friends had gathered in Sarasota for a Defever rendezvous being held at Ma…
Don’t Feed Da Birds
We traveled about 2 1/2 hours by car to visit some boating friends in Southport, NC. Southport is tucked away just below Wilmington and the mouth of the Cape Fear River and just 45 minutes or so above the South Carolina state line. Several movies have been filmed in Southport. ”Crimes of the Heart”, starring Diane […]
Mar. 22 – Greetings from Alabama
Day 16 – Dauphin Island, ALWest end of Dauphin Island – AnchorageWe left our cute little town this morning and headed for Alabama. We only went 35 miles today. We are anchored out on the end of Dauphin Island, which is a barrier island …
Go Ahead, Smile
I’ve been posting about how nice the Spring weather has been here in Connecticut, which no doubt annoyed all our friends back in upstate New York where the weather has been nasty. This is for you, taken this morning…I know it’s hard to se…
Iron Lady Sea Trial Video #2
While we were busy marveling at how well Iron Lady handled the previously mentioned vigorous sea state, her owner, Pete Rossin, shot a couple of minutes of video.
We picked up the files this morning and you can view the unedited video by clicking here. The quality is amazing and the camera work very steady considering […]
Go ahead, laugh!
Yep, it’s snow. All over everything. So, for you Loopers and Cruisers down in Florida, the Bahamas, the Windward Islands, and other warm climes, these photos are for you. Go ahead, laugh.
Prices in Paradise
Randal and I went to Male yesterday to buy additional fenders for the boat and some cheese and frozen chicken.
Small frozen chicken was 1200 grams (2.6 lbs) and cheddar cheese 250 grams (1/2 lb) was 108 rufiyaa ($8.43 !!!) in one shop.…
Settling down – 166 to 172 – Riviera Beach to Stuart, FL
At noon on Wednesday, we concluded our maintenance work with the installation of the Clarion amplifier and proceeded north on the ICW to Jupiter.The 13.4 mile two hour run up the ICW was, as usual, slow, uneventful and scenic with many&n…
Day in Sarasota
In the morning we walked over to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens a very nice place with large grounds. There are lots of tropical plants: trees flowers, fruit trees and even vegerables and herbs.We spent about an hour there came back a…
