January 2011It’s amazing….for more than 20 years we dreamed of shipping Diamond Girl to the East Coast and cruising the ICW and the Chesapeake Bay. We are starting the sixth year of our dream and every now and then we pinch ourselves to make sure i…
Good Albury day…
The sun was out, the wind was light, and the St. Lucie was flat. Sounds like a perfect day to take out the Albury for lunch up in the Manatee Pocket.Captain Spooner is in town and wanted to see the Hinckley Yard, so off we went. After tooling around an…
Snead Island Boat Works, Palmetto, Florida
The boat is back in the water! They completed the shaft and prop work late this afternoon so they were able to put the boat back in the water. The second fuel tank is clean. Tomorrow morning the mechanic will go over everything, then we should be able …
Successful crossing!
This is the scene we enjoyed after successfully crossing our section of the Gulf today. A sleepy fishing village in a mostly uninhabited and natural section of Florida, on the Sheinhatchee River (pronounced Steen-hatchee).Here’s another photo from the …
Boat maintenance in exotic locations, once again!
Well, after our excursion through the Old Town of San Juan, we returned to the boat and did a lot of needed chores. Ron did an oil change on the mains, put in fresh pencil zincs in the engines and hydraulic tank reservoir, while I did a major cleaning …
Living aboard with pets
I wasn’t sure what was going to happen moving aboard a boat. For Dave and myself it was going to be a challenge in and of itself. Moving aboard with two cats, a dog and a guinea pig, a challenge. We have a 19 year old half Himalayan …
Bahamas, always better in the islands!
Well another minor delay, after waiting for customs to open Tuesday for an outbound clearance, turns out we are told it’s not required to go to the Bahamas (Canadian Flagged Vessel). So we missed crossing with Puffin, departed Sylvia Lake just af…
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The weather has finally gotten decent. It was 70 degrees today and sunny. The last couple of Happy Hours have been full of information from other boaters about going to the Keys and the Bahamas. Some of the stories are scary, but most are informatio…
Daytona Beach
Ashley enjoying some sun. Leaving St Augustine behind Memorial Bridge entering Daytona BeachWhat was to be a 1 day stop over ended up 3 days do to an issue with oil pressure gauges 1 day and wind the next. Sunday we head out to Titusville to visit th…
Cocoa Beach to Islamorada, FL – 13 Dec 2010 to 10 Jan 2011
13 Dec 2010 Patrick AFB to Vero Beach, FLBefore we left Manatee Cove Marina (Patrick AFB) we did a little provisioning and Christmas shopping. It was a short run down to Vero Beach. Several miles before the mooring field, tornado warnings were po…
