Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:57:25 PMLocation: Miami BeachLatitude is 25 degrees 47.172 minutes north.Longitude is 80 degrees 8.86 minutes west.This weather observation was taken on Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:44:09 PM local time.Observation lo…
TRIP TO HEAVEN WAS HELL
Good morning everyone! I am finally here with my honey but it was not easy. Who knew what hell to pay for the pleasure of Scott’s company?? First my flight was cancelled on Thursday – but had to spend 8 hours at the airport in order t…
About TrawlerBlogs
Trawler Blogs grew out of a personal interest in trawlers and reading trawler blogs. Reading the dozens of blogs about there about trawlers, circumnavigating, blue water cruising, or whatever else became time consuming and difficult to keep up. There were so many blogs flooding my inbox with email updates that my inbox was overflowing. So […]
Fuel Burn, Range, and Margin For Error
We get a lot of questions about range, fuel burn, boat speed, and how this works out in the real world. Whether you have an FPB or a trawler, the same basic issues apply. In this blog we are going to review the factors which impact the fuel equation and then compare data for several […]
Green Light!
Well- looks like time, weather, and circumstance or finally aligning properly! My dad, my 8 year old son, and me made our way up to the boat today. We are spending the night at the dock and plan to cast off the lines early tomorrow morning to start o…
Local history discovered – Day 133 – Miami, FL
The temperature at 7:30 AM was 72 degrees under cloudy skies with a 50% chance of showers. Chicago was 12 degrees.I volunteered to take Kodi for her morning walk. We walked across the bridge to an open lanscaped lot right across the street …
Friday, February 11, 2011
Sunshine Skyway Bridgein Tampa BayThis houseboat had a bad day!Fountain in front of Marina Jack’sView from Marina Jack’sAll the time we were in the St. Petersburg area we were next to a General Aviation Airport. The CO watched aircraft taking off…
Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida
Fog and misty rain today but still nice to be out and about. We were having coffee on our back deck this morning, heard a splash, dolphins were playing in the empty slip across the dock from us. We watched them for some time, could have reached out and…
Thanks Willy
On Great Guana Cay is Black Point Settlement. This is a very small community but one of the nicest we have seen. Within the community of Black Point is a place called the Garden of Eden. It is one man’s dream, Willy Rolle. His …
Crossing the Gulf Stream Current
Sea Spirit is in the Bahamas! Ok, I understand that this is not exactly far flung, but for us it is a significant achievement to be here in Bimini at the Bimini Blue Water Resort. Why? Because it represents our first true passage in Sea …
