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Key West to Palm Beach
The calm smooth waters off the Florida Keys allowed for a beautiful cruise north on our next leg up The East Coast to North Palm Beach. Anna Mae motored along through the 24 hour trip with accelerated speeds as the current pushed us along at 11.5 knots…
Key West to Palm Beach
The calm smooth waters off the Florida Keys allowed for a beautiful cruise north on our next leg up The East Coast to North Palm Beach. Anna Mae motored along through the 24 hour trip with accelerated speeds as the current pushed us along at 11.5 kn…
Grand Cayman to Key West Florida
The three day run from Grand Cayman Island to Key West was mostly uneventful.Our weather window held true for the most part. A couple of sqwalls blew up along the way adding some excitment to the trip. When we came around the western coast of Cuba and …
Grand Cayman to Key West Florida
The three day run from Grand Cayman Island to Key West was mostly uneventful.
Our weather window held true for the most part. A couple of sqwalls blew up along the way adding some excitment to the trip. When we came around the western coast of …
Catching up on photo’s finally
The crew getting ready for our Panama Canal transitPlease oh please, catch my line…A celebratory swim in Lake GatunThe Captain concentrating through the first set of locks.Getting ready to snuggle up to SpringDay in the Miraflores Locks
Catching up on photo’s finally
The crew getting ready for our Panama Canal transit
Please oh please, catch my line…
A celebratory swim in Lake Gatun
The Captain concentrating through the first set of locks.
Getting ready to snuggle up to SpringDay in…
Another shot of the Memphis neighborhood — and a few thoughts
Currently, we’re in Jupiter and the weather’s been nice.
Our Hood —
Cinematic City from jason allen lee on Vimeo.
A look at Memphis.
Music by Tim Hecker.
Radar and I are up early, watching the sun rise over the top of a big yacht named Sea Bear, it’s nice visual.
Looking out over the stern of Istaboa, it appears to me that life seems to be getting better for many folks. This marina is filling up with big yachts where just a year ago it had more empty slips than full. The size and number of vessels has increased dramatically.
On the docks are marina worker bees swarming around the boats like in year’s distant past. Older boats are being fixed up or traded in for newer and bigger ones. Lots of upgrading and polishing, lots of captains and owners specing out projects. I’m seeing smiles on the faces of the boat fixer-uppers like I haven’t seen in a long time.
The marina operators are all reporting the best year they’ve seen in more than a decade. Some are getting cocky again, like they were around the turn of the century. (Yep, we’ve been doing this for a while.) Maybe they’ll remember what happened last time and not let this new found prosperity cloud their humility. Probably not.
Even our new little venture, onSpot wifi, is feeling like a young Dogwood tree at the commencement of a fruitful spring; laden with buds, fomenting a bloom the likes never seen.
And such articles are starting to appear —
Now Do You Believe We’re In A New Tech Bubble?
Yeah, times do seem to be recasting into the mold of the late nineties. Remember $20.00 bottles of water and $500.00 cigars? (The good old days of my generation.)
I recollect something an old fishing boat captain from Panama City told Mel and me years ago; we were leaving Carrabelle, FL about to cross the Gulf of Mexico for the first time and his advise was, “Just don’t get excited.”
Hopefully this old age I’m experiencing will bear some wisdom and we don’t get excited.
We haven’t yet, but we are enjoying the sun while it shines.
It feels good.
Adios,
Istaboa
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