Happy St. Patrick’s Day (Continued…)
FPB 112 – Getting Close and What We Fear Most
What we fear most in the design cycle is getting so locked into a single concept that we miss a much better approach. That is why we drag out the preliminary end of the process, to try and make sure we look at all avenues. Although the previous riff on the FPB 112 was good, […]
FPB 64-3 Iron Lady Sea Trial Video #1
We have been studying the motion of FPB64-3, Iron Lady, with an eye on what we are doing with the FPB 112. The difference uphill, between this and the previous 64s which do not have the swim step extension gives us some wonderful data. We shall shortly see how this works for ourselves, but for […]
T-minus 3 days
and counting till the first day of spring!The snow is quickly melting. +10C temps today so I don’t expect to see any more white stuff on the ground when I get home. 😉 The only problem with that is the ground is soaked so much that it’s backed up into…
3/16/2011 NEW RIVER, FORT LAUDERDALE AND DAN GETS AN NEW BIKE
WEDNESDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 0 NMSUNRISE: 7:30 AM SUNSET 7:29 PMHIGH 80 LOW 64Since we have to turn the rental car in by 10:30, we were flying around like crazy. First spot we dropped off a bracket for a little spot welding repair, then made th…
A day to go an hour
I didn’t have a chance last night to update the blog, why you ask? Long day! 75 miles traveled fighting a very strong current the entire way. All said and done we put 12 hours on the engine yesterday (idling at lock was some of that time). I labele…
Diving in Statia again!
This morning we went out with Glenn, one of the owner of Golden Rock Divers, and enjoyed two really nice scuba dives. The first dive was at the Charles L. Brown, a 300’ former AT&T cable-laying ship that was purposefully sunk as a reef in 2003. B…
MARCH 16, 2011
This morning we left our anchorage at 7:50 A.M. We had another beautiful day cruising. We came back to Boot Key Harbor in Marathon, FL. and we got on a ball right next to Norm and Sue. Once we checked in, Sue and I walked up the street and I got a …
Tuesday/Wednesday, 3/15 and 3/16
25. 19′ 763N/081. 08′ 234W Little Shark River, FL 3/15 and 25. 51′ 504N/081. 23′ 263W Everglades City, FL 3/16 Greetings! We’re writing this update on Wednesday, 3/16 since we had no connection with the internet last night and we had no cell service either because we were anchored out in the middle of Little […]
Cocoa Village Marina, Cocoa Village, Florida
Another beautiful sunny day. Wayne did engine checks and some repairs this morning, while I did some laundry. We are starting to rate marinas, one important item on the scale being the laundry facilities. This marina is great, 4 washers and dryers, and…
