The good life continues in Mazatlan. We’ve added a location map to the top of the blog that will have our current (and past) locations as we travel around. Thanks to Eric & Sherrel at www.sailsarana.com for the code snips.We use a Dell mini desktop com…
Bolgatty Island: The other half
The path from the Marina/Hotel complex to the ferry and the rest of the island.
Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor now over grown.
All of the cruisers wish this place still existed because we all like ice cream and this marina has no small store like th…
Bolgatty Island Marina
Hi All,
All of our time is spent on DoraMac or in town so we really haven’t made use of the marina facilities. It actually is the only marina in India!
Ru
DoraMac
Bolgatty Island
Marina
The Marina office is in this building. I have…
Little Bay, Great Guana Cay
Nancy and Jim dinghied over in the morning and told us that they decided to move to Little Bay, on Great Guana Cay just south of Black Point Settlement, the site of a failed resort and this lived-in castle. We went to Staniel Cay for internet access a…
NASA Green Building
I see this: NASA Green Building and think this is kind of like having a solar powered oil rig!I’m thinking just lighting the fuse on one of the rockets they refuel must pretty well cancel out all of their green effort entirely.For the purists out there…
Adventures of the Mystery "Campervan"
The South Island Exploration Begins Bright and early on the morning of Feb 1/11, you find Glen and I waiting at the top of the dock for our taxi to take us to the Auckland airport where we will be whisked off, by Jet Star Air, down to Christchur…
Boat Work and People Play
I can’t believe how quickly time goes by when you are busy (and having fun). Here we are at the end of January and I have only written our adventures down once. Guess I’m just getting lazy, but also, how exciting can it be for anyone else to rea…
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Single Person Dinghy Launching
If you have the dinghy rigged properly, and hanging over the side at anchor, single person launching is quite simple.
The dinghy bow line is attached forward and slack. The halyard winch is positioned so it can be eased while standing at the rail.
Ease the halyard with one hand, push it away from the topsides with […]
Cooper Island, BVI: Diving Wreck Alley and the Inganess Bay
Driftwood “Dolphin” at the Cooper Island ResortRon and I have spent a couple of days here at Manchioneel Bay, Cooper Island, one of our favorite spots in the BVI. The last time we were here, there was only a small dive shop and an even smaller be…
