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An interesting day

Yesterday, Pete invited me over to meet the new owner of Morewater.A nice fellow who brought, Scott Flanders, another Nordhavn owner with him. Many of us long range cruiser types know of Scott and have read about his, and his wife Mary’s, exploits aboa…

Leaving Puerto Rico

ooops…. The text will have to wait for another day since I can’t open the file with my laptop, created in a .docx format… you would think Word would make their file reading seamless… noooooo… till next time, then!Babbie, Ronnie & JP:  …

Quest at Sea

Marathon, FL – 2/22/11 & 2/23/11 (days 25 & 26)

Tuesday (2/22) was our day to do nothing. Ricki spent the day at the pool and since I had this stupid summer cold, just hung around the boat. We needed our rest because we had planned to go back to Key West on thursday with Skip & Barb. Neither of …

Moons over Miami

After pulling out of Marathon we felt good getting some water under the keel.  Our first stop was shell key where we tied to a free mooring ball for a night. The view from the mooring was amazing and we waited with baited breath as the s…

Windhorse

Send Us Deerfoot, Sundeer, and FPB Photos

Gordon MacKenzie sent us this great photo of three Sundeers anchored in Musket Cove, Fiji.

Left to right these yachts are: Dutch Touch (60),  Pelican Express (60) and Mantra (56). Gordon thinks this was August 2007.
Now a request. If you are or have been an Owner of one of our yachts, or have photos of them, we’d […]

Still At It

Blog   (Continued…)

Getting ready, test

Doing last minute things on the boat, planning to head East Monday Feb 28,

Haul Out and Other Stuff

When I left off we were headed to the mooring field at Ft. Myers Beach to spend a few days while Kasey’s Choice got hauled out at Gulf Marine to replace the cutlass bearings. We arrived Sunday afternoon and picked up a mooring ball. Normally this is a …

No Name Harbour, Key Biscayne, Florida

The crocodileA view of the harbour from the restaurant window.We are anchored in a beautiful little harbour just across from Miami. Left Gilbert’s at Key Largo just after 8 this morning. We were getting ready to leave when someone spotted a crocodile s…

Seas 2 Day

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP

Today has been a much better day than the previous two days. First thing this morning, John climbed back in the engine room and had another look at the generator. After a few minutes, and after trying to start the generator a time or two, it occurred t…