December 25, 2011 – January 13, 2011We have been having a wonderful time here. We have sort of settled into a rhythm of retirement activities.Mark tries to go fishing as often as he can – weather and time permitting. On New Year’s Eve, Mark and G…
Enhancing Visibility At Sea
Sobering fact: you are going to be almost invisible to ships in any sort of breeze. A yacht is just too small to stand out in the waves and their white caps. Radar return, even with a radar reflector, is also hard to pick out of sea clutter. The one thing you can do is […]
Snead Island Boat Yard, Palmetto, Florida
Happy New Year, and Happy Martin Luther King day! Arrived back last night. Wayne came a week ago, but I stayed behind to take care of a few things. Weather was cool, but much warmer than in Canada, and no snow. Cloudy this morning, chances of rain. We …
Happy New Year 2011 – New Zealand
Happy New Year to Everybody!We are back in New Zealand again after spending a lovely December visiting family and friends in Calgary and enjoying a “white Christmas” with our daughters. When you are a Canadian child from the prairies, there is no other…
Return to Isla Mujeres, Mexico
[Beautiful Isla Mujeres-Northern tip looking South] We’ve started preparations for Pine Knot’s next adventure, a trip from Seabrook, Texas across the Gulf of Mexico to Isla Mujeres, Mexico. Our target date of departure is April 16, 2011. We plan to…
#35 Chacala
Ahhh, reward. Our journey up the coast looked futile. Each successive anchorage was too exposed to stop. Then we arrived at Chacala’s small harbor with slightly better protection. Still not perfect, but we decided to give it a t…
Jan. 17 – First Blog Entry from The Pearl
The weather finally cleared up after a week of rain and cold weather, so we decided to take the boat out and enjoy the sun. We are spending the night on the boat so I decide I would test out our mifi connection and post to the blog. Not a l…
Punta Gorda to Fort Myers, FL
Stayed a second day in Punta Gorda because of thunder storms above us & below us. Did talk to Pam from Adena who we traveled with last summer for 3 months. She & Rich are planning a trip to FL & plan on hooking up with us -…
Isla Mujeres
Isla Mujeres is a great place! Just the right size with a blend of ammenities but still the flavor of small Mexican town. There are only small hotels instead of the hugh resorts like on Cancun. We took the ferry into Cancun to c…
Punta Gorda to Fort Myers, FL
Stayed a second day in Punta Gorda because of thunder storms above us & below us. Did talk to Pam from Adena who we traveled with last summer for 3 months. She & Rich are planning a trip to FL & plan on hooking up with us -…
