What a treat we have ahead of us, our good friends Ryan and Mimi Smithwick came to join us for a Bahamian New Years Celebration. They are our neighbors from our home dock on Lake Allatoona in GA. It’s amazing how your dock neighbors can…
Time for a Change
Why? Two Good Reasons, More Flexibility and Affordability. When we look back at our on our years together we fondly remember how we discovered that one of our mutual passions was boating. It all started with a 20-foot Four Winns runabout. We used that runabout, as a family boat, to water ski, to overnight on […]
Xmas Holidays are too short
and it’s back to the salt mine tomorrow! *sigh* Oh well, only 3 days then another long weekend! I picked up a slightly used sawdust collector thingy at the Pawn Shop in Prescott. Full retail on one of these is $270. I got it for $150. This should help …
Good Luck / Bad Luck
The Good Luck thing that happened was… we went to the boat Sunday to make sure she was still floating and it just so happened some friends on our dock had their diver out cleaning their bottom and replacing their zincs so he kindly got the line off o…
Drama on the High (almost) Seas!
Memorial Day dawned sunny and warm. Yay! A perfect day for our first trip away from the dock – and with our daughter and son-in-law (another Tom) aboard. My husband and I felt a great sense of pride and accomplishment as we completed …
Great Loop Date 12.15 – 28.2010: Half and Half (Family and Friends Along The Gulf Coast)…
Days #125-138: 2810.6 total milesPorts #58 – 62OB sat at the dock for 4 days while the crew recovered from vertigo after the night of thrashing at sea, celebrated successfully crossing the Big Bend with 5 other Looper boats and enjoyed the li…
Sunsets in La Paz
Date & Time: 12/28/2010 4:09 PM UTC (Zulu)Location: 24°09.36’N, 110°19.62’W , La Paz, BCWhile the US is suffering from winter storms we’re enjoying beautiful sunsets in La Paz. Today was clear and sunny with a high of 80°. We almost feel guilty, alm…
Happy Sailors
I could not stand it anymore. We pulled up stakes yesterday and left the marina at 2:20 p.m. The wind had died down enough for us to make our way back to an anchorage we went to before taking up residence for 5 days…
Key West Crazy Christmas
We left Marathon for a Key West Crazy Christmas on Thursday morning. It was a gorgeous calm day on the Atlantic and it was great to be back out on the water again. Thursday night we did the tourist thing and went to Mallory Square for sunset and to see…
September Song 2010-12-28 06:23:00
This bird is a frigate and it spends most of its life out over the water. We see them many miles off shore floating on the thermals.Lots of people out enjoying a beautiful day on the waters off Key WestCruise ship in for the dayOnly in Key Weird
