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Home Delivery

     We arrived in SoBe (South Beach) last week on a Monday and here we are a week later on a Tuesday and we are still here.  After being in a third world country (Bahamas) for 10 weeks,  I guess we got caught up in the…

Hiking Pigeon Pea Hill (aka the mountain!)

It’s so nice to be home! After unpacking and re-acclimating to the island time, (one hour earlier than EST) we got back into live-aboard mode. We had the boat detailed while we were gone, and Sun, our detailing guy, did a fabulous job. The water was be…

Slow days

View of Grand Case as we approached in the dinghyThe past couple of days have been slow days for us. We were waiting on the electronics guy to come fix the dinghy radio, but we found out he wasn’t coming until  tomorrow. SO….we took the dinghy…

Commissioning – A Masterpiece in Progress

If you’re like me and never experienced the commissioning of a new boat, you must be asking yourself at this point, “aren’t they done yet?”  On Friday, Serenity will be in Florida for 2 months – for 2 long weekends, one in January and one last mon…

Back to the Island!

Here we are, back to the island yet again! After a hectic whirlwind of two weeks stateside, from Florida to Colorado to Wisconsin and back to Florida once again, we are now back aboard Equinox. Happily, all our doctors appointments, correspondence obli…

Marathon, FL: 01/14/11 – 03/05/11

Our stay in Marathon is winding down.  It’s been a pretty action packed couple of months.  At the same time, we’ve managed to enjoy the slow-paced do-it-tomorrow Keys lifestyle. Shortly after we arrived, we rented a car and drove back to Stuart to get our car.  As usual, the car is never in the right [Read More…]

South Beach

        It’s everything and then more.  First, there is Lincoln Avenue Mall.  This is a great place to to see the next fashions coming out of Miami.  Lincoln Avenue Mall is about 5 or 6 blocks long runn…

Rick, Deb and Izzy Aboard M/V Broulee and other Wild Adventures 2011-03-01 12:52:00

CULTURE SHOCK – arriving at Port Everglades on a warm Saturday afternoon was probably not such a good idea.  Our crossing from Bimini was good and how quickly we forget about boating on a weekend in Florida – especially on the ICW.  It certai…

M/V Tatoosh

     What is 303 feet long and 46 feet wide, has a big brother 416 feet long, has a helicopter, a 40 foot custom power boat, a 40 foot sailboat, a 6 foot deep swimming pool just to name a few and is owned by Paul Allen, the co-fou…

20,000 Pasty White Kids

    Upper Photo – One of hundreds of Man-of-Wars we saw as we crossed the Straits of Florida.        Saturday was the weather window we needed to make the crossover.  Our plans were to go back to Miami …