Living aboard is one thing if you’re someplace warm with waving palm trees. It’s quite another when one gets hit with snow storm after snow storm. Stamford is just a short distance from New York City. Since weather usually trave…
Great Loop Date: 1.11-1.19.2011 – Coming to The End of The Mainland…
Days #152-159: 2986.2 total milesPort #67-68: Naples to Marco Island, FLTodd and I were excited about coming to Naples. Our contractor, Nick Petti, has a condo in Naples we had made plans to see him. Also, we had never been to Naples e…
Dog Cuteness
This is Charles Garnet Rider my granddog. Also known as The Charlie-Bean. (View Post…)
Ya gotta love Grits
Now that we are back to the land of the living we have started to do what we had hoped to do several weeks ago and do a bit of exploring. Since we are in Charleston SC, there is a decided food theme that needs constant attention. Grits you really gotta…
And slowly they emerge
We have been “off line” for the past two weeks with a cold or flu which made it’s appearance two weeks ago. We used to claim that we rarely got sick but cannot do that anymore and it is unusual for us to be sick at the same time and never for such a lo…
Musical Propellers and How To Tune Them (out)
We usually specify what is called an anti-singing edge on our props. Essentially this is a chamfer on the forward face trailing edge of the blades as shown above. Occasionally this is not quite the right shape and at certain RPMs and loadings the prop will start a high pitched, and very annoying, song.
The props […]
Touring Charlotte Amalie with Friends Aboard
Equinox on anchor with all the sailboats in Charlotte Amalie Harbour, St. Thomas, USVIRon and I now have our friends Karen and Kerry from Concrete Idea aboard with us! They arrived late Wednesday evening, and we spent Thursday walking about St. Thomas,…
South Seas Marina Resort, Captiva Island, Florida
We had a good day to travel today after the winds of the past couple of days. Cool but sunny. Travelled along the intra coastal waterway south from Venice through Lemon Bay, Gasparilla Sound and Charlotte Harbor, arriving at Captiva Island. We spe…
Living Aboard in Wrangell, AK
We like Wrangell; we’ve liked it each time we’ve visited here, passing through on the Inside Passage. It’s Cotati-sized, has a Geyserville before the gentrification / Guerneville in the 70s feel to it. (Continued…)
Hanging……
We are still at Paradise Marina in North Fort Myers. Our boat is ready to go. Norm and Sue’s boat gets closer to being ready every day. However, it is taking longer than any of us thought it would. So, we don’t know when we will be leaving. Perhap…
