After nearly two months in Lake Union, Spirit is now safely moored at her home port, Anacortes Marina.We are now on the 4th ECM for the Cummins main engine, and hope the problems with the ECM, wiring harnesses and other engine controls have been put to…
West Caicos: On the mooring, and in the basin
Rental car Blitzen’s pal, Donner — knew I’d see him!After two weeks of exploration by bicycle, boat and Blitzen, we got a weather window to leave the north side and head back south to West Caicos for some diving. We left early Saturday morning just af…
Sunday, 12/19/10
USN, Boca Chica Marina, Key West. We have had an interesting week. Transportation is still an issue but we are getting more creative in our attempts to find post office, get provisions and to check out sites and restaurants we can take our kids or friends (hint, hint, hint) when they come down for a visit. This week, […]
Happy Holidays to all!
Hi everyone. We are in Loggerhead Marina Hollywood, FL til January doing some final repairs before leaving for Central America. Our plan is to depart from Key West for Isla Mujeres on the first weather window available and then work our way sout…
Happy Holidays to all!
Hi everyone. We are in Loggerhead Marina Hollywood, FL til January doing some final repairs before leaving for Central America. Our plan is to depart from Key West for Isla Mujeres on the first weather window available and then work our way sout…
Sloppy Sea Slog
Seasickness Sally here to report on our sloppy sea slog from Florida to the Bahama Bank. If you’re following Dave’s blog you know that Yacht Tech pulled off a Herculean effort in getting Three@Sea back in the water on Friday after all of her maintenance and repairs. The weather gods seemed to smile upon us […]
First Stop: Port Lucaya, Grand Bahama
We arrived at Lake Worth on Thursday afternoon and anchored just inside the inlet. Before our planned departure, at around midnight that evening, we hoped to relax a bit, make sure the boat was readied for an offshore trip, have a nice dinner AND catc…
NEW ORLEANS – "THE BIG EASY"
New Orleans is a city of cultural and architectural diversity all smashed into a small geographical area known as “the Crescent”. It is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi and one side by Lake Ponchetrain. Whereas the city is quit…
Key Biscayne
After a pleasant morning aboard, we retrieved the dinghy and made a short trip to Key Biscayne. Kevin was at the helm for the entire trip. We are expecting northerlies (a cold front), so we wanted an anchorage protected from the north. There were se…
Al Fresco… Part Deaux……
After 4 weeks in a Marina I finally tired of the yacht club, starbux, the mall and feeling like I was back in Encino. Plus the expense was getting to me!Earlier this week I pulled the plug, lit off the engines and headed 5 miles north in the bay to La …
