Second set of lights went up after I got the Tyvek stapled on. Took a lil’ break for some hot chocolate and I got owned!It’s hard to get anything done when you’ve been owned! But I can’t complain Bootsie Tootsie Boy is my bestest buddy in the whole wor…
Friday, Nov 19 We make it to Carrabelle, FL where we will depart for Tarpon Springs as soon as the Gulf calms down.
We have enjoyed watching porpoises for the past few days, but this is the first time that three of them swam along right next to the boat for an extended period. Gave me time to find the camera and snap a few pictures of them.
We arrived at C…
Thursday, Nov 18
We had our friends, Jill and Rudy over for dinner last night. Notice the tennis court on TV. We had a great evening of bowling and tennis on the Wii.
Just had to show one more picture of our new addition to the crew. She is re…
The Grateful is Back in the Water
We arrived in N Myrtle Beach on November 9th after spending the weekend with Bob & Dianne at their beautiful Wisconsin cabin….
Sammy, Port & Sadie waiting for a treat
and traveling through the Great Smokies…..
The Grateful looked beaut…
The Grateful is Back in the Water
We arrived in N Myrtle Beach on November 9th after spending the weekend with Bob & Dianne at their beautiful Wisconsin cabin….Sammy, Port & Sadie waiting for a treatand traveling through the Great Smokies…..The Grateful looked beautiful wit…
Photos on blog
Photos on the blog are quite small to see, but you can enlarge them to full screen size by left clicking on the photo. The “Charles Atlas” photo was a bit of fun from Chris using his photo edit skills.
Crazy Times in Orange Beach
I guess that once you have completed the Loop you do crazy things.
Mark here is modeling the bra that Susan and Linda were going to hang in the ultimate dive, Flora-bama. Linda had read about this place in one of the guide books so we deci…
Big Day Tomorrow!
Tomorrow we are ripping out our 9 gallon holding tank and beginning the process of replacing it with a 30 gallon holding tank. I HOPE we will be able to finish the project tomorrow but since this IS a boat project, I don’t want to get to wrapped …

TGIF
Actually, everyday is Friday for us. We just get up, make plans and move out. Went to town early this morning with a list of stuff to do and found that the marine store didn’t have what we wanted, the dive store didn’t have what …
A Māori welcome to New Zealand
We had a pretty good 7-day passage over what can be a nasty trip. We had two bumpy days followed by two wonderful days of flat seas and no winds and three days that were a mix of average to low seas as we neared the coast. Several boats b…