Winter is winding down and before long it will be time to start back north. It has been action-packed down here and, at the risk of sounding pitiful compared to those up north, it has been the coldest and windiest winter in years. The waiting list to pick up a mooring in Boot Key Harbor [Read More…]
03-09-10 Topsail Beach II
[Rick] Our first full day in Topsail Beach was relaxed and easy. We performed a few maintenance items on the rental house. We spent some time catching up with Betsy’s brother, Steve. Around 1300, Power Squadron friends Toad and Dauna Gable arrived to…
Spring Break time in Panama City
Well, you can tell it’s Spring Break time in Panama City because instead of having 80 year olds driving 20 mph we have 20 year olds driving 80 mph. This was in today’s local paper and I thought it appropriate.Sorry for being so long in posting.&n…
Home Depot Gets Kudos For Paying Attention
Work continues into the night. Brock is skimming and sanding the final coats of glass. He’s driven to get this project done, which is a really great thing. And I must give credit to Home Depot for paying attention to that crazy thing called the blogosp…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-08 19:25:00
We had nice visitors over the weekend. My sister, Beth and her husband, Paul, and my brother Jim and his wife Laurie all came to visit us on the boat.They arrived on Friday and we went to the Selby Botanical Gardens nearby. The gardens have a beautif…
03-08-10 Topsail Beach – No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!
Betsy Speaks: Our goal for today was to pull into our home at Topsail Beach at approximately 2:00, and we had mentioned that on the blog a few days ago. That post prompted an e-mail from someone who has been following our blog right from the very begin…
03-07-10 Southport, NC
[Rick] We moved on from Dock Holiday’s Marina and headed for Southport, a trip of 40 miles. The weather was very nice with the temperature in the mid 60’s. There was very little wind. We arrived at the Sunset Beach pontoon bridge and were very surp…
Most Unhelpful Home Depot Guy Ever
As the day goes on, Brock finally gives up on the heat exchanger thing and sends me to Home Depot instead. You gotta love that ~ when he reaches the end of his rope with it, he thinks I’m going to do better? I’ll try to take it as a compliment, I guess…
HT Days 5 and 6
Mostly a bunch of grinding and sanding and layers of fiberglass, along with sweating of copper joints on the heat exchanger and other miscellaneous mechanical stuff. I realized last weekend that this was a bigger project than I had originally anticipat…
03-06-10 Myrtle Beach – Dock Holidays Marina
[Rick] Loyal readers will note there was no blog yesterday. That is because we did absolutely nothing. Betsy read her book (it is amazing how much she is reading since she got her eyes fixed). I played on the computer and did a little cleaning up. …
