Thanks for the birthday wishes. The senior discounts are still iffy, but I’m getting more and more of them. We’ve been visiting friends, eating wonderful food, scouring used book stores ( though I do now have a Kindle, bu…
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Diesel Duck is heading south – Yeah!
What more could we ask for? Perfect Diesel Duck weather to head south. Here we are passing the famos Thomas Point Lighthouse off Annapolis, sitting on the Thomas Point shoal in the Chesapeake Bay. (View Post…)
Messing with diesel oil
I am not doing coffee here to support the troops. Benno drained more than 2 gallons of diesel fuel out of the huge double barrel Racors. Black, yucky stuff! In the picture you see me filtering the diesel through a Melitta #4 filter. What filtered o…
The Cruise of the Peking: SailBlogs 2011-10-03 10:16:53
another view (View Post…)
Cloud Forest
We have learned the difference between a cloud forest and a rain forest. Where we are staying in Boquete is in a cloud forest. Due to its altitude, we can see the clouds coming in from the Pacific. By the time they arrive here we are in the middle of…
Boquete, Panama
We have been in Boquete for a couple of weeks caring for a lovely home owned by a former cruiser. We have visited coffee plantations, rain forests and a howler money rescue lodge. (Continued…)
Chincoteague
We’ve just spent two lovely days with our friend Carol taking a trip yesterday to Manhattan and today walking along the beach here in Point Pleasant.
Tomorrow we’ll head off to visit our friend Kathy in Cotuit, MA.
Ru
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A visit from Diesel Duck owners
Meet Ruth and Randal Johnson who came for a visit onboard “Diesel Duck.” Ruth and Randal own a 46+2 (51′ LOA) Diesel Duck called: “Dora Mac” click for Dora Mac’s web site which was built out of steel at Seahorse Marine Manufacturer in Zhuhai, China…
Savannah # 2
We left Savannah and spent two nights in Chincoteague. Then we moved on to Annapolis. Now we’re in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey visiting our friend Carol Carino.
Ru
The best beard in Savannah.
I’d noticed this man s…
Last Lap
21 September Wed Well, in the last blog I wrote that we were going to leave Newport that afternoon, to try to stay in the benign weather bubble, ahead of really crappy weather coming in from north of us. We got underway about 1500 that afternoon; ca…
