March 9-10. Left the docks of Daytona Beach at 7:30am heading to St. Augustine. We are cruising the Palm Coast. We’ve never seen such a jungle of palm trees; they have grown so close together that you couldn’t walk through the wooded area. Now that’s a lot of palm trees considering they have no […]
March 9-13, 2011 (St. Augustine and Jacksonville, FL)
If we leave this early will they still call us snowbirds?
After crossing Shuttle Launch off our bucket list we pulled away from Titusville still shocked and amazed that we had seen Discovery fly. Unfortunately it was really time to finish up our stay in Florida and begin to get up the coa…
Life’s2Short 2011-03-16 06:52:00
Our Final Weeks in St. PetersburgSince our last update we have been working hard to cross projects off the Captain’s long list. After Todd got the engines put back together, he tore into the VacuFlush toilet in the aft stateroom. Although frustrating…
Cabbage Key and beyond
No, they don’t grow cabbage there. The key is named for the cabbage palm. The island is one hundred acres and is a twenty eight foot tall Indian shell mound. The only way to the island is by water and has no roads or vehicles, just trails through the l…
September Song 2011-03-16 06:10:00
Our “cheeseburgers in Paradise”
The Prime Meridian
I am in London this week on business, and on Sunday I took the opportunity to visit Greenwich, England, where the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Observatory, and the prime meridian are all located. It was a fun field-trip, and very relevant to our…
The Prime Meridian
I am in London this week on business, and on Sunday I took the opportunity to visit Greenwich, England, where the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Observatory, and the prime meridian are all located. It was a fun field-trip, and very relevant to our travels aboard Three@Sea. You probably know that a “meridian” is a […]
The Impact Of Scale In Yacht Design
As we work on a new design we frequently refer to past projects. We used to overlay paper plots of lines drawings and compare how volume was handled above and below the waterline. There are the numeric values to review of course, but in the end, when you are talking about how a given shape […]
Hello from the Maldives where we have Internet
Welcome to sunny, calm, no pirates in the anchorage, Male! You have no idea how nice not having to think about pirates is. Even on our passage from Cochin, though a route believed to be safe from pirates, I was looking over my shoulder during every one…
Shining Like New Money….
My wonderful grandmother has a phrase she uses now and then to describe something that looks really nice and new. That phrase is that it is “shining like new money.” Well…our little Monk trawler seems to be shining now like new money herself! We m…
