Land Cruising

With our boat, Idyll Time, in winter storage until spring, we are now land cruising aboard our new RV. In November, we purchased a 24 foot Winnebago View. We call her “Miss Daisy” in honor of Daisy, our Sheltie who just passed away. In many ways it is similar to boat cruising only now we […]

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Now, this is really interesting

Anything can, and will happen in Miami.Here’s a mystery that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “piano bar.”A grand piano recently appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, about 200 yards from the Quayside condominiums off Northeast 107th Street….

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Protecting Your Wireless Internet Communications

Pete Rossin, on of our FPB 64 owners, has researched protecting wireless Internet communications in the age of “Firesheep”. Pete has been kind enough to share the approach he has adopted, including screen shots, to make a similar installation relatively painless.
 

We have put Pete’s comments into a PDF file which can be downloaded here. We […]

Moor $tuff 2011-01-26 20:45:00

Monday, January 24, 201182° 40.812’ W27° 26.317’ NMoore’s Stone Crab restaurant and dockLongboat Key, Florida Heading to Longboat Key Sunshine Bridge Moore’s Stone Carb Restaurant We arrived at the dock of Moore’s Stone Crab…

Moor $tuff 2011-01-26 20:32:00

Sunday, January 23, 201182° 41.815’ W27° 44.408’ N Gulfport City MarinaGulfport, Florida GulfportDa Bears let us down again! What a bummer! Tomorrow we will leave this great harbor and community and head south. Good weather is predict…

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Boy, what a night last night.  We had torrential rains and strong winds up to 70 miles an hour with tornado warnings in the area.  The wind was so strong it pulled the back cleat out of the dock.  The back end of the boat was a…

Ft. Myers – 1/25/10 & 1/26/10

We are really enjoying our stay at Legacy Harbour Marina. Several loopers are here with more coming in every day. Tuesday we borrowed the Hanna’s van and did some shopping and played tourist most of the day then joined them at a friends house for a s…

Crow’s Nest Marina, Venice, Florida

Windy all night last night. We were quite comfortable on our boat, but some of the other boats really rocked and rolled. Got some laundry done this morning, then Wayne and I walked uptown to get some groceries. It was 2.4 miles to the store, so we…

Free Showers

     We woke up this morning with a plan, but before we discuss the plan let’s regress.  We returned from Long Island in the Bahamas to George Town on Saturday January 22nd and anchored at Red Shanks.  Then the weather wen…

Captain’s Log January 27, 2011

Captain’s Log   January 12 to January 25, 2011
The Great Mango Run
We stayed in Cabo San Lucas until Friday, awaiting better weather conditions on the Sea of Cortez.  We did some shopping and wandered around.  We walked to the be…