September Song 2011-01-30 09:52:00

Joe and Julia on Sea Pearl, Paul and Helen on Lucky Dog, and Stephanie and I at Sparky’s Landing in Key Colony for prime rib night and some great music. What a fun pace!Great night of music by John Bartus.Are Paul and Helen having fun yet? I think so!

September Song 2011-01-30 09:51:00

Cocktails on September SongSteve and Di’s cousins Paul and Helen arrived here in Marathon this week. I think they like it here.Where two or more DeFever Cruisers are gathered……..Eighteen DeFever Cruisers at Hurricane for lunch.

September Song 2011-01-30 09:50:00

All dressed up and ready to go out and strut their stuff.Out with Captain Rick to catch the big one. Did we catch any? Don’t ask! Maybe next time.Mama manatee checking us out.A mother manatee brought her baby by our slip for a visit.

Ready to head to Key West

Greetings from the Sunny Florida Keys! (Continued…)

Alaska 24X7

Last weekend we presented at the Seattle Boat Show on our 24×7 run to Alaska. 
The slides are posted at Hamilton_SBS11_Alaska24x7.pdf. 
A couple of questions w…

Rick, Deb and Izzy Aboard M/V Broulee and other Wild Adventures 2011-01-30 08:13:00

OOPS WE DID IT AGAIN  – On the 29th we ventured out at Adderly Cut with a plan to get up to Black Point in hopes of getting Wi-Fi.  It seems our trusty dinghy motor (a 16 year old 15HP Yamaha) decided to break it’s rubber thrust hub…

Change we can believe in, me hearties, argh

We learned in January that Outer Reef is having a rendezvous in early March in Key West. The last one had been in Block Island RI., in August 2009 which we boated to.  Our original plan had been to stay in Charleston until the end of March and boa…

Weekly Review

It’s been a relatively quiet week for the crew of Tourist. Of course it started off great with the Packers win over the Bears on Sunday afternoon! We along with several of our dockmates watched the game on M/V Front Page. Thanks Gene & Kathy for th…

West End, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, to Jost Van Dyke, BVI

A fabulous day — we all were up early. While Karen and Kerry took a morning dinghy ride, Ron and I were hiking up the extremely steep mountainside, checking out the resident goats  scrambling about on the hillside fields, and taking in the amazi…

Musings from Randal

Although India seems vast the land here in Cochin, or at least the street we are on, is precious. Very little is allotted for human traffic much less passage of automobiles, motorcycles, tuk tuks, trucks, and everything else you can imagine. This area …