Tag Archives | Cheoy Lee

One Toke Over the Line

This post isn’t related to cruising, really, but bear with me.   Most people out cruising full time are now baby boomers.  No, I don’t have any facts to back that statement up, but I’m guessing its true.  Do you remember when you we…

Jekyll Island Beaches are For the Dogs, in Pictures

We’re here in Georgia’s Golden Isles, which consist of Jekyll Island, St. Simon’s Island, Little St. Simon’s Island, Sea Island, and the city of Brunswick.  This is an upscale touristy area because of its climate.   January lows are in t…

How To Make a Gasket

We took Drift Away to the fuel dock to be pumped out last week.   Before doing so, I ran the fuel polishing system to check for water in the tanks.   Not only will a diesel not run on water, but it would mess things up real good.&nb…

The Flybridge Navi-Nut (patent pending)

All of our liveaboard friends at Isle of Hope Marina in Savannah have scattered like leaves in the wind.  Some went south, but a few went north, including our friends Dan and Pat on Ironhore (the H is silent).   Dan and Pat went to Beauf…

Handling Mail, Bills, Voting, and Driver’s Licenses While Cruising

Everyone has bills.  We don’t have many since we live on a boat and don’t own property (yet) or a home (no tax or utility bills), but still we get bills for insurance on the boat, Thunderbird, and truck.  We get bank statements.   W…

Wow. 100,000 hits.

100,000 hits on a Seinfeld-esk blog about nothing.   Our first blog post was on January 13th, 2011.   We were at Seaview House Marina in Stamford, Connecticut fixing up this old tub, hoping that it would be seaworthy enough to take …

The hit counter approaches 100,000… end of the world?

I used to work in the computer software business.  Back in the mid-1980s, I instructed all the Cobol programmers who worked for me to convert all two digit years in their programs to four digit, as I’m sure every other software business did. …

Mystery Fruit

Mystery Fruit:The other day, I took my camera for a walk and took a photo of what I thought was a lime bush.I decided to cut one open, and this is what it looks like.It kinda looks orangey.   Like an orange.  And it smells like an orange…

Now Moderating the Blog

I posted on Saturday that I turned off word verification, a means to prevent “robots” from posting spam in the comments section of this blog.   It kept many of my friends from posting as well because the numbers and letters one had to enter w…

Take a Walk Around Brunswick Landing Marina

Pamela was at the Farmers’ Market yesterday.   She set up a table to sell her sea glass jewelry.   With Megan away, it was just me and the animals.  I took the dogs up for their potty break, but Olivia the German Shorthair Pitb…