16th November 2010
Following a week back at home, Linda in Maidenhead and Ian on the Isle of Man, we both had a week of business in the States and another week catching up with kids before heading off to Barcelona for the boat show. It is always…
The end of our first season……
The end of our first season……
16th November 2010
Following a week back at home, Linda in Maidenhead and Ian on the Isle of Man, we both had a week of business in the States and another week catching up with kids before heading off to Barcelona for the boat show. It is always…
Palmetto Moon 2010-11-30 11:48:00
While Sailcraft continued to sand, scrub, and apply the barrier paint, all 14 coats, we continued doing our chores — Jim applied a waterproof solution to the top of the bimini and Su scrubbed seven fenders — the list seems to grow! At the same time,…
November 2010 – Rockville, SC, – Fernandina Beach, FL, – Jacksonville, FL, – St. John’s River Cruise, FL, – Palm Coast – New Smyrna Beach – Merritt Island – Stuart
November 2010 &nbs…
Fort Walton Beach & Thanksgiving in Panama City
After leaving Little Sabine Bay at Pensacola, we headed for the free dock at Ft. Walton Beach. This dock is provided by the city for one overnight stay but has no power. It is a chance to get off the boat without using the dinghy howev…
Annapolis, MD to Stuart, FL: 10/04/10 – 11/21/10
We are tied up in our slip at Sunset Bay Marina and Anchorage in Stuart. We plan on being here until January and then who knows! There’s been lots going on including some changes/modernization to the website. Instead of using PC-based software to create the logs, we’ve moved to server-based blogging software (and I’ve switched [Read More…]
Weather
Now all the travel is over, and I’ve had a chance to recover from the jet lag, you would expect things to be getting back to normal here.Not.It seems the weather has other ideas.Suddenly, over the weekend, it’s got really cold here – just on or below f…
Monday, November 29, 2010
The prediction was 70% chance of rain, high in the 60s, and winds 12 mph for today. We left Fort Walton Beach at our customary 6:30 and headed for Panama City. We had 3 to 6 foot waves in the Choctawhatchee Bay and had to make certain everything was se…
Titusville
Daytona to Titusville. This had to be among the most boring days of the trip so far. The current was against us all day. (How is that possible?) The scenery was sparse, albeit, there were a few interesting places. For most of the trip, there was little to see but broad expanses of shoal water and low marsh lands. Although, the Florida ICW is better dredged and wider than further north making steering easier, we still had to hand steer all of the way. Note for the future: This is a good area to go outside.
There are many good anchorages around Titusville, and we did find an excellent one directly off of NASA’s Cape Kennedy complex and the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB, see banner photo). When it was built in the late 1960s, this was the largest building in the world (in terms of interior volume).
We are told that this is an excellent anchorage from which to witness space launches. Unfortunately, there are no launches scheduled this week, and no shuttle launches scheduled for a month. Maybe, we’ll be able to see them from further south.
We learned that fellow Selene 43 owners, Linda and Cory (Live Wire II) are anchored about 500 yards from us, but we can’t see them because of the causeway in between. We’ll investigate tomorrow.
Ken and Joy (Slow Dancin’), friends from Herrington Harbour North are about a day behind us. We plan to meet up with them on Saturday in Vero Beach.
For our friends up north, our high and low temperatures were 81 and 70. It was overcast most of the day, but no rain. It is supposed to cool off a little tomorrow.
Thanksgiving at Angel Island
Santa paid a visit to our bowturkey is in the oven! A five pound breast with ribs, with an herb rub (thank you Paula Deen / Food Network for the GREAT recipe).The mooring field in Ayala Cove as viewed from the top of the island. That is us on the…
