Sunday, February 6, 2011, Day 133, Super Bowl Sunday. Well, the weather forecast changed, significantly. Yesterday’s forecast for Monday was ugly. The cold front that was supposed to come through on Monday stalled in Florida and is weakening. Tod…
FPB 64-3 Sea Trial Runs Three and Four
We have the complete set of data now from Circa on Iron Lady’s second set of runs. The data looks as expected for her displacement running in deep water and calm conditions (numbers are on the next page). She also appears to be a touch quieter, although without soft goods installed this is difficult to […]
Somali Piracy – Stratfor’s Annual Report
For most of us Somali piracy is a curiosity. But if you are crossing the Indian Ocean these days, even headed south towards South Africa, the risks are real. Stratfor is what we would call a private State Department or risk analysis outfit. Formed by George Friedman, they are considered the best in this business […]
Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida
Wayne, Jane and Bill, Scott and Marlene, Eddie and Nancy, and myself Went for a trolley tour today with Nancy and Eddie; it took us up north of Naples and around town. We saw some very ritzy gated communities, and drove through…
Rick, Deb and Izzy Aboard M/V Broulee and other Wild Adventures 2011-02-07 18:40:00
LET’S SEE, WHERE DID WE LEAVE OFF? – Oh, yes, Patiently waiting for a part. We are now into the 2nd description of patience, i.e., calmly tolerating delay, confusion, etc. It seems there was some confusion as to who was paying for our little…
Monday, February 7, 2011
GREEN BAY PACKERS SUPERBOWL 45 CHAMPIONS!We are now back at the Hilton waiting for the final boat repairs to get done. Not much to report. Just getting our charts ready for the next leg of our journey. Up until today, it has been…
Gator, iguana, tarpon, man-o-war sightings!
Yesiree, we’ve seen it all now. Bert will be so jealous since he was shut out on seeing a gator, which he was so desperate for. And then we heard about the giant 6-ft iguanas on Bahia Honda Key, and we saw an iguana there.Uhhhhh…..they were both abou…
Puerto Vallarta
We arrived safe and sound and are in our permanent slip in the Paradise Village Marina, Puerto Vallarta. The trip was pretty good except for an occasional large set of swells coming from the Pacific side and stern of the boat. More later…
Departure Date
We have finally set a departure date…March 6. That will be one year after we first looked at this boat. The weather will play a major factor in whether we actually leave on that date. If a weather window opens a little before then…we will go, if th…
Marathon, FL – 2/6 & 2/7 (days 8 & 9)
Sometimes I feel like a reporter on assignment in paradise. Well, this was another day just like the other 6 days we have been here …. simply beautiful!! I asked Ricki how to spell “gorgeous” (sp) but she thought I was talking about the babe in the …
