Sunday, 12/19/10

USN, Boca Chica Marina, Key West.  We have had an interesting week.  Transportation is still an issue but we are getting more creative in our attempts to find post office, get provisions and to check out sites and restaurants we can take our kids or friends (hint, hint, hint) when they come down for a visit.  This week, […]

Happy Holidays to all!

Hi everyone.  We are in Loggerhead Marina Hollywood, FL til January doing some final repairs before leaving for Central America. Our plan is to depart from Key West for Isla Mujeres on the first weather window available and then work our way sout…

Happy Holidays to all!

Hi everyone.  We are in Loggerhead Marina Hollywood, FL til January doing some final repairs before leaving for Central America. Our plan is to depart from Key West for Isla Mujeres on the first weather window available and then work our way sout…

Sloppy Sea Slog

Seasickness Sally here to report on our sloppy sea slog from Florida to the Bahama Bank. If you’re following Dave’s blog you know that Yacht Tech pulled off a Herculean effort in getting Three@Sea back in the water on Friday after all of her maintenance and repairs. The weather gods seemed to smile upon us […]

First Stop: Port Lucaya, Grand Bahama

We arrived at Lake Worth on Thursday afternoon and anchored just inside the inlet. Before our planned departure, at around midnight that evening, we hoped to relax a bit, make sure the boat was readied for an offshore trip, have a nice dinner AND catc…

NEW ORLEANS – "THE BIG EASY"

New Orleans is a city of cultural and architectural diversity all smashed into a small geographical area known as “the Crescent”.  It is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi and one side by Lake Ponchetrain.  Whereas the city is quit…

Key Biscayne

After a pleasant morning aboard, we retrieved the dinghy and made a short trip to Key Biscayne. Kevin was at the helm for the entire trip. We are expecting northerlies (a cold front), so we wanted an anchorage protected from the north. There were se…

Al Fresco… Part Deaux……

After 4 weeks in a Marina I finally tired of the yacht club, starbux, the mall and feeling like I was back in Encino. Plus the expense was getting to me!Earlier this week I pulled the plug, lit off the engines and headed 5 miles north in the bay to La …

Anchor Winch

Here are a bunch of pictures from the last week of assembling and installing our anchor winch. We had plans to stage a crane on-site for one day to do a job on one of the Baylink ferries. I put our anchor winch project on the front burner so we could g…

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20 Things I’ve Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years

Woke up this morning to a light dusting of snow. Rocky Point is always so pretty with a white back drop… Plus tonight is our traditional, nontraditional Christmas celebration with the fam…. this year with a little snow.Gonna go out to break up the …