Day 16 – Everyone must be getting tired of this step by step holiday. We are just about ready to go home too. Yes there are lots of things that we haven’t seen; it’s just time to get back to normal again. Sorry for the inundation of blog updates, inter…
Visit to a landmark – Day 147 – Miami Coconut Grove, FL
Readers may remember that when we first arrived in Miami two weeks ago, we saw this unusual mansion as we traversed the Deering Channel enroute to Grove Isle Marina. We also saw a photo of it on our Sea Ray Navigator screen (see photos).Vizc…
Hollywood Municipal Marina, Hollywood, Florida
Theship loading boats for transport. NaMaka was near the front. Asmall part of the ceiling of the outdoor section of the Irish PubAt lunch at the Irish PubScott and Marlene on the water taxiOne of our water taxisWe had a great day today. We took the wa…
Three Great Trawler Voyages
Here’s an oldie, but a goodie. Yachting Magazine covered three exciting Trawler Trips in an older issue of theirs. The article outlines and recommends three trawler voyages to take: Fernandina Beach to Bermuda The Inside Passage Florida to St. Thomas, USVI Besides the fact that these trips take significant planning which the article breezes over, […]
Miami Yacht Club and Key Largo
Several days ago we arrived in Miami spent three night at the Yacht Club. We met several people from NS including retired RCMP member(Ralph Weaton) that Lane knew quite well. Also Jim Duncan, a former Yarmouth boy, his dad fished the NS waters. He is 7…
Friday, February 25, 2011
After the Cruisers’ Net this morning, John and I headed for the park for a few rip-roaring games of Bocce Ball. There were approximately 25 people present and 6 of us needed to learn how to play. We used to play when the kids were little, but that’s …
The End of February
This will be one of those rare Friday nights we spend at home! It is supposed to be close to freezing tonight and might even snow (hasn’t snowed at sea level here since 1976!) so we decided to stay home and maybe do some house cleaning and laundr…
Bad things happened in paradise
Sometime in January the single hander “Don North” with his little dog “Kuna” on his sailboat “Windancer was reported missing and a search for him started on the SSB Panama Connection Net which runs daily at 08:30 a.m. on 8107.0 KHz. (Continued…)
The "Levante"
“Jean-Pierre Bouhard’s” boat the “Levante” and then renamed “Twyss” was found and does not display any names now. (View Post…)
Thompson Bay, Long Island
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, Day 150. What should have been a tough day was actually quite nice. Navigating around numerous obstructions in three foot seas headed directly upwind, should have made this a tough day. We had a very pleasant cruise.At …
