Today is day 4 of our week long adventure at “Mike Wiegle Heli Skiing” in Blue River B.C.This is a spectacular operation tucked between the Cariboo and Monashee mountain ranges. Each day we are skiing in a group of 10 along with 2 guides.&n…
3/22/2011 ANCHORAGE JUST OFF KEY BISCAYNE
TUESDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 9 NMSUNRISE: 7:23 SUNSET: 7:32HIGH: 80 LOW: 63This lovely anchorage proved to be secure and…
Dania Beach, FL – 3/20/11 thru 3/22/11
Sunday – 3/20/11We kinda slept in late today and I spent the day with NASCAR racin’. Ricki worked on the computer all afternoon sorting pictures and other stuff. The late afternoon was adult beverages on Ken & Dianne’s boat Savannah II along with s…
Thompson Bay to Staniel Cay
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.
