We move further north – Day 131 – Islamorada to Key Largo, FL

Our goal is to be in Miami Beach on February 16 to meet lots of friends and attend the Miami Boat Show.  Friends who we will connect with include Pam Rose, Jim, Heidi and Michael Kargman, Ron and Linda Markovits, Dick and Cathy Hoffman and Mi…

Just Believe Nordhavn

Mazatlan to Puerto Vallarta

We left Mazatlan last Sunday morning at 7:50 am with little wind and a good 3 feet of water under the boat. The run out to the ocean wasn't a problem even though the tide was still coming in and provided some currents to deal with. We to…

The end to our first week in Stuart FL

And what a beautiful finish to a wonderful warm week in the sunshine stateduring the week Jim started to tackle those nasty dining chairs first sanding themThe guys taking a break and watching a Cat boat that the 40kt winds got a hold of, see next pict…

Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida

Nancy and I spent the day touring some of the shopping areas. We seldom have a chance to just window shop and tour various stores and it was fun. The men went to 3 different marine stores, so we all had a good time. We had planned to move on to Marco I…

Seas 2 Day

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

We had a pretty full day today. John and I walked to Home Depot and bought stuff to do a few projects on the boat. We took our little milk tin cart with us to carry our purchases back to the dinghy and then to the boat. We bought roll up shades for …

Report From Onboard Jenny

Wednesday, February 09, 2011 7:07:45 PMLocation: Boot Key HarborThe boat position was not recorded. No recent weather observation is available. Bottom clean and propeller shiny. Laundry done. Water loaded. Dinghy onboard. Motorcycle onboard. Provisi…

Turquoise

We have been spending the last couple of weeks exploring New Caledonia’s satellite islands. First we departed Noumea and sailed down New Cal’s west coast to Ile des Pins (Island of the Pines) just off the southernmost tip of the main island, and now we are cruising through the Loyalties, a string of islands some […]

Getting to know your neighbor!

We awoke this morning to find a sailboat anchored just off our stern. (No, we didn’t have the sign out…!) Turns out their mooring painter had parted from the mooring shackle during the night — no fault of theirs — and they found themselves bumpin…

The good life in Mazatlan.

The good life continues in Mazatlan. We’ve added a location map to the top of the blog that will have our current (and past) locations as we travel around. Thanks to Eric & Sherrel at www.sailsarana.com for the code snips.We use a Dell mini desktop com…

Bolgatty Island: The other half

The path from the Marina/Hotel complex to the ferry and the rest of the island.

Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor now over grown.
All of the cruisers wish this place still existed because we all like ice cream and this marina has no small store like th…