A perfect day for a cruise – Day 80 – St Petersburg to Sarasota, FL

Wednesday, we awoke to another beautiful day; sunny skies, 50 degrees and light winds.  As planned, my friend, Ron Markovits, who had decided to co-captain with me on the trip to Sarasota, arrived at 10:00 AM.  The plan for today in…

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Istaboa’s Waypoints 2010-12-22 20:00:00

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Maintenance Adventures – Day 79 to 80 – St Petersburg, FL

We set Monday (12/20) aside for some serious engine maintenance.  Sean from Cummins arrived at 8:00 AM and spent the entire day performing the 250 hour maintenance service.  Sean changed oil, oil filters, fuel filters, Raycor filters, impelle…

Pam the Stalker

So I’m just getting settled on the sofa late Saturday afternoon when Pam says to me. “Let’s go over and see Sig Hansen”. Now this wasn’t the first time she had mentioned this outing, just the first time today. She’s been bugging me all week about going…

Sitting in land locked Kansas, thinking about our

Sitting in land locked Kansas, thinking about our TUMBLEWEED…for now, we are content to make plans for our return. Looks like end of May or first of June…we plan to return and head out. We’ll do Canada’s Trent Severn, then Georgian Bay and Lake Mic…

Tumbleweed Adventures 2010-12-22 13:31:00

Sitting in land locked Kansas, thinking about our TUMBLEWEED…for now, we are content to make plans for our return. Looks like end of May or first of June…we plan to return and head out. We’ll do Canada’s Trent Severn, then Georgian Bay and Lake Mic…

The Exumas in Time for Christmas

Although we thoroughly enjoyed the stay at the Grand Bahama Yacht Club at Port Lucaya, it was just too 'American' for our tastes. It's the home of many hotels, condos, townhomes, marinas and the Port Lucaya Marketplace – a bar, restaurant,…

Winter Dream’in – Part 2

I’ve been fussing further with the track data I extracted from the navigation computer and have uploaded all our anchorages up to both the Microsoft and Google mapping sites.  These can be opened up as a separate browser windows and don’t requ…

week 10 home for Christmas

This is a pretty park on the waterfront in Beaufort SC You can see the marina in the background Yes those are poinsettias planted with the pansiesUpdate…..for the last 2 weeks the short of itThe weather cold and wind held us up for a week so in the …

Sojourner’s Sea Stories 2010-12-22 06:55:40

Season’s Greetings We hope this finds you and yours well and enjoying the very best of this most special season!  As suggested above, ours includes snow this year as we returned to Lexington Kentucky just before Thanksgiving to begin the adventure of re-establishing a land base.  Sojourner didn’t make the trip… she’s  in St. Augustine, preparing […]