Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida

We celebrated Wayne’s birthday today. We chose not to travel because the winds out on the Gulf were fairly high. Instead we got the dinghies down and went touring up the river and up and down some of the canals here in Naples. It gave us a chance to ad…

Another Week in Wrangell

So, another week in Wrangell, Alaska. We’ve continued doing things to get the boat ready for haulout and the work to be done. I spent an afternoon up the mast with mixed success at dismounting items to make the boat “shorter” (so to hopefully m…

Life’s2Short 2011-02-10 10:30:00

Dock LifeAs we continue our annual “vacation” from boating, it appears I am also taking a vacation from blogging. But the dockside days go by quickly and life isn’t quite as eventful on a day-to-day basis as when we are traveling.Todd and I fina…

Return to Jew Town

Hi All
This morning I set off with friends on a "last visit to Jew Town" because when I left the boat this morning we were about to do a passage to the Red Sea and on to the Mediterranean. 
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Return to Jew Town with Linda and Mic…

Marathon, FL – 2/9/11 (day 11)

When we got up this morning, we were full of energy and decided to tackle a couple of boat jobs that really needed done. I spent several hours cleaning diesel soot off the back of the boat and then decided to clean the dinghy good since it still had …

Naples Florida

Today is Feb 10th and we are in Naples Florida staging to go to Marathon with brief stops on the way south. I have encountered computer virus’ and attempted identity theft and will briefly suspend blog until this is cleared up. Will catch up soon.

Tenacatita and the return north…..

I left Barra de Navidad late January for the trip to Tenacatita, having heard lots of wonderful things about this place. It’s about 20 miles north of Manzanillo. It’s a good size bay appx. 3×3 miles overall. During August of 2010 a developer in Guadala…

Sunrise Or Sunset?

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Passeral Dinghy Davit

Here is an interesting use of the passeral we saw on a number of motor yachts. The dinghy in this photo will weigh close to 1000 pounds/450kg so there is substantial load with which the lifting mechanism must deal. It does make for a clean system.

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