Hello everyone, Tom here. I suppose that because Bess went to all the trouble to setup a blog for our boat, Skinny Dippin’ then give me posting access, I might as well post something here and shine a light on what my contributions will be to this n…
New Bight, Cat Island
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Day 178. In the morning, when we tried to run the freezer, it kept tripping the breaker. We found salt all over the cooling water pump. Later, we found that a fitting on a purge valve that we had Butch install last summer …
Bless Up!
Keith, Watusi and Ron before our tourThis morning Keith, Ron and I were all moving a bit slowly (a la “why is the rum gone?”) but thankfully, we’d arranged a tour of Nevis with Watusi, a, extremely tall Nevisian Rastafarian singer/taxi driver. He…
Marina Jack, Sarasota to Chadwick Cove Marina Englewood Beach.
The weather was fine this morning. Wind from the South West at about 10-15. We left Marina Jack at 9 AM and headed South along Sarasota Bay, then the Venice area there was quite a lot of boat traffic (all recreational) for a Thursday. In spite of …
KEY LARGO
This is a cut through the mangrove trees. I thought it looked cool.This morning Sue, John, and I met at the Dockmaster’s office to see about calling a cab to go to the grocery store. We called Mom’s Taxi Service and a guy about our age showed up to t…
Thursday, 3/24/11
Still at Bay Point Condos in Tampa, Florida. We’ve been very spoiled with excellent accommodations. Today, we had several more visitors and Rich, one of Ballou’s friends and long time boyhood friend of our friend, Bruce. Rich was very interesting to listen to as he took us for a tour of the immediate area which included the […]
Conception Island – Columbus
Historians argue that Conception Island is the site of Columbus’ second landfall in the new world. Theories abound on just where Columbus first saw the New World, but there seems to be agreement that it was the Bahamas. We can only wonder how the isl…
St Augustine Municipal Marina, St Augustine, Florida
The bridge is working. Shortly after I finished writing the blog last night it went up and all of the stranded boats came through. So far today, it seems to have worked. Luckily when we leave we won’t need it lifted for us. Toured the Presbyterian Chur…
Tavares Float Planes
It’s great to be out early in the morning with camera in hand. Although there was no early activity in the race boat pits last Saturday, moored float planes offer a nice target of opportunity. The folks in Tavares advertise themselves as America’s Seaplane City. Seems to me to be ambitious marketing bordering on wishful […]
On March 21 and 22, we stopped at Holiday Harbor Marina on Perdido Bay to see Larry and Theresa Valentine, fellow boaters.
To see a map of our travels, click on the link below.http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=35.32633,-84.407959&spn=1.283981,2.90863&z=9&msid=115670053638722453925.0004941526db020c69a55
