Another beautiful warm sunny day in paradise. Took the dinghies out Sisters Creek to the Atlantic side of the Key to a pretty little beach. Had a picnic lunch and walked on the beach. We went with Eddie and Nancy, Scott and Marlene from Nomad met us th…
Key Largo to Key Biscayne
(Thursday Feb. 17 – Dist: 44.6 mi; Avg Speed: 13.7 mph; TTT: 4:00 hrs.)
Biscayne Bay is a rather large body of water so we were able to go up on plane and make some good time. In one part of the Bay well out from shore there are a number of…
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The moon taken during the sunset, Tonight’s sunset!Our boat on the mooring ball in Marathon.Today John finished putting the last coats of polyurethane on the table top and the door frame. They both turned out really nice. Then we did some paper work (…
Thursday, February 17, 2011
It is good to be in Fort Myers. Last night we had drinks and a wonderful dinner at Dave and Pat’s condo along with some friends of theirs and ours from Red Wing, MN; Linnea and Jim of “Otherwise”. Dave and Pat are the previous owners of Kim…
Very cool boat house
Pretty sure many of you have already seen this on HGTV, but a friend emailed it to us and we thought we would pass it along.Beautiful is an understatement.Enjoy.Nordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs
Tonnage
Steve, what does an FPB64 measure out to for tonnage (USCG rules)?
Thanks
Rick de Castro
Have not yet seen a USCG tonnage calc Rick.
Evaluating Stability and Capsize Risks For Yachts
Over the last couple of years we have had a number of discussions about the mechanics of stability and capsize risks. Recently these issues have come up again, and we thought this might be a good time to revisit this fundamental safety issue. In the ensuing blog we are going to show you some rather […]
THE NEXT LEG OF THE JOURNEY BEGINS
Good morning. We have been having problems boasting on the blog until today. Tuesday \Lane and Tina arrived. We picked them up at the hotel and back to the boat, after stopping to buy groceries and have lunch at Ali-gators. \Sc…
Wires everywhere
Andy has been down for another visit.An inevitable consequence of Andy’s presence is wires hanging out all over the place. At least while he is there that is.The plan I have is to use 24V lighting everywhere I possibly can on board, and low energy ligh…
Marathon, FL – 2/16/11 (day 19)
Wednesday was “give the boat a bath” day which it needed very badly since it hadn’t been washed really good since the Gulf crossing. While I did that, Ricki spent most of the day trying to straighten out the prescription snags with her new health insur…
