November 10, 2010 Eastern Shore Marina to Orange Beach Marina, Alabama. Today was a short run of 31 miles partly across Mobile Bay then onto the Gulf Intercoastal Waterway. We are back into unusual yard art and dolphins swimming along side the boat. I …
Cabo San Lucas
We arrived at Puerto Los Cabo very early Wednesday morning along with the Nordhavn 76 Eliana. We came into a long dock on the starboard side of the channel and both tied up to wait for the marina office to open at 9AM. We met the owners of E…
Life’s2Short 2010-11-14 05:45:00
“Bottoms Up” from JacksonvilleOn Saturday, November 6th, we pulled in to the marina where Jim & Sherel keep their boat “Sandpiper.”“Sandpiper” with “Life’s2Short” at the dock. The Jaguar’s Stadium is in the background.The Maxwell H…
Turkish “Indian summer”
We’ve been steadily heading south, and two weeks ago we anchored off the quaint village of Torba in perfect conditions – blue skies, no wind and temperature in low 20s, and here Chris O’Brien joined us. The weather went this way following a coupl…
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaa
Auckland calls itself the City of Sails and looking around, you would think the America’s Cup was here last week. Right next to our marina is the NZ Maritime Museum. It houses “Black Magic” the ACC yacht that won the America’s Cu…
Tonga
We reached Tonga at Vava’u, then we went to Haapai and now we are in Tongatapu.1. A Pacific island paradise full of friendly people, amazing beaches, coral reefs and exotic species of fish.2. A depressing little third-world country, where everybody is …
SATURDAY, NOV 13 We’re on the move again!!
In the middle of Mobile Bay we are now seeing shrimp boats instead of tugboats and tows. This view is looking out over the Gulf.
Here is an expensive way to get to port. Three ocean going tugboats towing an ocean freighter into …
FRIDAY, NOV 12 Our last day at Dog River Marina
Finally, we got all upgrades and repairs done. We depart tomorrow. For our last evening there, we invited Larry Brown from “Cigano” to join us for dinner. He agreed to bring along his git-fiddle to do some harmonizing after dinn…
Back to Reality
We departed West End Bahamas on Wednesday morning at approximately 6:30AM, it was an absolutely beautiful morning! Captain Alyse decided it was time for me to try and maneuver the boat out of our spot and out of the Marina. That was FUN, it…
