Saturday brought more aircraft related diversions, in the form of a Spitfire this time.This flight was in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first Spitfire flight. Southampton was where it all originally started.There were a good crown of peopl…
Boggy Key Anchorage – 3/7/11
We pulled out of Burdine’s Marina at 8:30 a.m. in order to meet Skip & Barb on Hawk Channel in an hour at Key Colony. They were also leaving at the same time in order to go to a marina for a pump out then on to Hawk Channel. We traveled about 2 hou…
Seabrook Marina to Point Cadet Marina Biloxi, Mississippi
I brought the rental car to Enterprise’s office at 7:30 they brought me back to the Marina and we were on the way by 8AM. It is cool, winds from the east about 10 K. We had one Railway bridge to go through to get to the Intracoastal it opened for …
Hiking Pigeon Pea Hill (aka the mountain!)
It’s so nice to be home! After unpacking and re-acclimating to the island time, (one hour earlier than EST) we got back into live-aboard mode. We had the boat detailed while we were gone, and Sun, our detailing guy, did a fabulous job. The water was be…
Slow days
View of Grand Case as we approached in the dinghyThe past couple of days have been slow days for us. We were waiting on the electronics guy to come fix the dinghy radio, but we found out he wasn’t coming until tomorrow. SO….we took the dinghy…
Shroud Cay
We finally left the anchorage at Norman’s Cay on Sunday morning and headed just five miles south to Shroud Cay under sunny skies and light winds. The front has passed and the winds are blown out. Wind directions are now from the prevailing SE, and ha…
Sunset Bay Marina and Anchorage, Stuart, Florida
Left North Palm Beach this morning with Dream Fever and Nomad; travelled along the intracoastal waterway to the mouth of the St. Lucie River, then came up the St. Lucie River as far as Stuart. The marina is just past the Roosevelt Bridge. Arrived just …
Palm Beach to Stuart Florida
Today is March 7 and we traveled from Palm Beach Marina to Sunset Marina in Stuart Florida. This trip has taken a little over 4 hours and covered 34 miles. We left the Atlantic Intracostal Waterwater Way and traveled about 7 miles up the St Luice Riv…
Mar. 7 – Departure Day
Day 1 – Matagorda, TXMatagorda Harbor MarinaWe chose this day to leave because we like the numbers….3/7/11. Three for the three decades we have been married and the holy trinity, seven eleven…the date of our wedding, add the numbers togethe…
Mar 5-6 – Saying Goodbye
We spent the weekend loading the boat with the last of our personal items and saying goodbye to family and friends.Christian and Lillian came by on Saturday to look at the boat. We had a great visit on the boat and then went out for lunch. …
