Christmas Reunion – Day 85 – Sarasota, FL

85 days and 1792 miles for us and 91 days and 2,600 miles for Scott and Brittany, we reunited Christmas Day at the Stephen’s house on Anna Maria Island.    Wonderful!   Fabulous!  Fantastic! hardly describes it.&…

Brock & Jamie’s Blustery Day

Went out crabbing, had a lovely time. Spent the night in Port Madison, quite peaceful, thanks for asking. Home today? Less so:Forecasts? I’m pretty sure that on this boat, weather is a Boy Job. At least it always has been. I may need to take over. To b…

Boxing Day Blues

I hope everybody had a good Christmas! Santa spoiled me again this year! I got some gear for the boat shed, lights, laser level etc. and a lot of new clothes which I needed. Anyhow, I haven’t had the opportunity to post anything of note lately so I tho…

Cruisers’ Christmas Dinner

We’ve had a fun few days here, although we haven’t had the best of luck in getting out to dive. The winds continue to kick up the seas, thus visibility hasn’t the best, since it’s been getting rather stirred up (story of the month, apparently). But…

Christmas 2010

Christmas Day was lovely – 75°, sunny, and a light breeze. We actually needed the patio umbrellas (see photo above) because it got really hot. As for the last several Christmas’, everyone on the dock got together, got organized, and had an extraordi…

The Captain Writes

Here’s the Captain again. Like I said previously, I would try my hand at this thing once in a while. LOLOL Since the next trip to New Smyrna Beach was only 15 miles we slept in and didn’t leave until about 9:30. We usually have breakfast while we …

Bradenton Florida

December 26, 2010 Crossing Our Wake Celebration and Christmas in Bradenton, Florida. It is December 26 and time to catch up on the blog. We crossed our wake at Maximo Point, Florida and Ruth aboard High Spirits took the picture as we crossed the Lat …

Christmas in Whangarei

    After leaving the Bay of Islands we headed south and stopped in several nice places with funny names like Whangaruru and Tutukaka.  We enjoyed calm bays, nice views, blue penguins and several spinner dolphin escorts.    …

Spanish Wells, Bahamas

A photo essay of Spanish Wells, Bahamas

Merry Christmas 2010

December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas Dear Family and Friends! 
We are safely in Ft. Myers Beach. We have celebrated Jesus’ Birthday with good friends, but we miss our family very much. 
We hope that you have been able to celebrate this special d…