We couldn’t figure out what this was in front of us, turned out to be a floating boat sales office under tow.Some of the homes we saw as we passed Miami, we kept expecting to see Horatio Caine investigting a murder in one of them. We saw all kinds o…

WORK BEFORE PLAY
The day was spent doing chores with still more to be done tomorrow. John worked all morning on collecting all things taxes and then mailing the stuff to our accountant. I did housework, or should I say “boatwork”? We are trying to get caught up so…
Getting ready for a Bum Clean!
As Monday nears closer we are compiling a variety of items in the lazarette in preparation for our haul out at 7am!! Shock horror! What a ghastly hour of the morning, but we will do it! On the upside, it will be cooler then and as we are doing all the …
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Jenny in Ft. Lauderdale. Happy Melinda to be in a City again. We had a good Valentine’s dinner in Ft. Lauderdale! Jenny’s salon at night. Melinda took this great photo of a bottlenose taking a breath. We had a wonderful visit with Tom Lawler on…

Visitors Underway
”aCappella, this is the United States Coast Guard. When was the last time you were boarded?” It was five years ago. A year or less and they typically give you a pass. But we don’t mind getting boarded. It’s an important function and we have always f…
Nordhavn Video Featuring Us!
Nordhavn has been making a series of videos to promote their boats. They featured us in one of them, and they even let us talk about the book at the end! Nordhavn Interview with Grabs Sorry we have not been keeping the blog updated. All is well with us; life has just gotten busy. We are […]
Miami Boat Show 2011 and Return to Grove Isle, Days 139 – 145, Miami Beach, FL
It has been an exciting week of funfilled activities. We stayed at the the Miami Beach Marina thanks to Paul Boudos’ securing us a slip. Although the priciest yet at $227/nite, it was in an excellent location being in Sout…
Ragged Island
still no file sharing between the computers…. will have to try again tomorrow!JP takes us to townOfficial welcome signDuncan town, AKA “Conch City”

An interesting day
Yesterday, Pete invited me over to meet the new owner of Morewater.A nice fellow who brought, Scott Flanders, another Nordhavn owner with him. Many of us long range cruiser types know of Scott and have read about his, and his wife Mary’s, exploits aboa…
Leaving Puerto Rico
ooops…. The text will have to wait for another day since I can’t open the file with my laptop, created in a .docx format… you would think Word would make their file reading seamless… noooooo… till next time, then!Babbie, Ronnie & JP: …
