Monday our friends Rob and Julia drove us to Nicosia for a visa run. We ate at a really neat restaurant, did some shopping, got the visa, did more shopping, ate dinner and came home. That’s the short story. The long…
Tag Archives | Diesel Duck
Texas Highway Patrol with a speed boat?
Benno and I wanted to take in the Miami International Boat Show which ran from last Thursday through this Monday while we were here with our Diesel Duck. The advertisement claims it to be “The greatest Boat Show in the world” and with so many vendors …
Members of the great Diesel Duck family!
Right here in Miami Beach, Coral and Tom Graham live in a great house on Palm Island. They own a 44 foot Diesel Duck called Gaijin, which was built at Seahorse Marine in China. Gaijin could be kept at the dock in front of the house, but Tommy and Cor…
Weather and Walking
Howling Winds!!!
It’s 5 pm and the only thing left for the weather to do today is hail! We’ve had rain, sun, wind that makes you work to walk through it; and since noon we’ve had winds registering at 45 knots! Just now the winds are a bit more qu…
Yesterday
Last Sunday we went to visit the small village of Büyükkonuk. I hope to write about that soon. This email is about yesterday.
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Çarşamba Sabah Şubat 8, 2012
(Wednesday Morning February 8, 2012)
Yesterday Sharman, Sophie and I set off from the m…
Keeping Track of Things
The largest project on the boat this winter has been to take advantage of the NMEA2000 backbone running through our boat and increase the level of system monitoring that we do. When Seahorse Marine built our boat a couple of years ago, we had them in…
Doing TLC
Our stay and all the hustle and bustle in Ft. Lauderdale came to an end this week. My parents had just left to return home, when Benno removed a couple of mast brackets and the antenna arch from the pilothouse roof. Then he worked on the logistics of…
Stone Statues to the marina by foot
Randal has been working days on end rewiring and moving wires in the saloon ceiling to make way for the stove pipe for our diesel heating stove. It isn’t a cooking stove; just one that can heat the boat more efficiently than the reverse AC heat…
Green Heights Park, Ilgaz and Moon and Sixpence Gastro Pub with Heidi
Today is sunny but blustery. Blustery means there is a medium wind. Two days ago there was a howling wind which we’d had for days so blustery is ok. I have two loads of laundry blow-drying in the sun and wind. Later I̵…
The Price of Ice
Last summer while visiting Tracy Arm with our friends the Crowders, we did a tour down to the snout of the North Sawyer Glacier (Crowder visit). As we were viewing the glacier a nice chunk fell off. We were about a half mile away so I wasn’t worrie…
