Fuel Filter

     Big Run is a long range cruiser that can carry 700 gallons of fuel in 2 tanks.  As you use fuel and the fuel levels drop in the tank, and if you are on rough seas, the fuel has more of a chance to scour the walls of the ta…

Enabling RSS on Your Blogspot Blog

A few of you have asked us to follow your blogs and we would like to do so. But for us to follow your blogs, we need to access your RSS feed. The good news is that for those of you who are not technically inclined, this is VERY EASY TO DO and requires almost […]

Boo Boo Hill

          On our way north back through the Exumas, we stopped once again at Warderick Wells.  On our first trip to Warderick Wells, Sharon and I never made it to Boo Boo Hill, which is a special place for…

Important Update – Please read

Dear everyone! Wow, it has been a whirlwind ride over the past few days. Thank you for the outpouring of AWESOME feedback. I am very glad that you love TrawlerBlogs! I recognize that there are a few areas that we can immediately improve upon to make the site more usable. Many of you have recommended […]

A busy day!

They are not kidding! Wednesday, we rented a car for the day to run some necessary errands. First order of business: refilling ALL of our propane tanks. We’d refilled two when we were in Turks and Caicos, but one of the tanks seemed to have a defe…

Dockside Sombrero Marina, Boot Key Harbour, Marathon, Florida

Said goodbye to Jill and Richard on Finally and Tom and Linda on Q’s End today, they are heading on up to Key Largo and then on to Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Kathy and Richard in Rambler headed off today as well, but had to return with a problem with a…

The Healing Begins

It has been a long, hard struggle but I think that I am finally starting to shake the last of that terrible disease that has affected my blog and the updates about our trip.  I have learned that I had “Keys” disease.  It is a terrible afflict…

Feb. 16 – Getting Ready

We’ve been finishing up little project on the boat.  We finally got the boat name added to the dinghy.  We decided paint would probably hold up better than the vinyl letters on the bottom.  We had a stencil made to make it easier to pa…

Report From Onboard Jenny

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:50:33 PMLocation: Ft. PierceLatitude is 27 degrees 27.351 minutes north.Longitude is 80 degrees 18.385 minutes west.This weather observation was taken on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:50:16 PM local time.Observation l…

Seas 2 Day

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Some dinghy, huh? Pretty self explanatory.The dinghy dock.Today was a day spent working. John and I walked to Home Depot to get supplies for our projects. We bought a new sander (the old one died), a toilet paper holder for the front head that broke, …