When we were stuck in the marina in Fairhope my nephew measured the depth at the stern of the boat and it was approximately 6’4″ and on the bottom. We had 600 gallons of fuel onboard at the time. My guess is that the 6’6″ draft advertised by…
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Isla San Francisco
Los Islotes is a small island off of the northern tip of Isla Esperitu Santo. While there we swam with the sea lions and enjoyed their curious behavior. This little guy wanted a ride and surprised us all. I ended up in Lee’s lap and Lyn wanted one of u…
TURKISH AUTHORITIES MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT FOR CRUISERS
We’ve heard from friends in Marmaris that a new regulation has been introduced limiting the time visitors can spend in Turkey to 90 days in any period of 180 days, making Turkey similar to Schengen Treaty countries. Previously a visitor could get a 9…
Pensacola-Palafox Pier
We finally got enough water under the boat to leave Fairhope about 12:30pm, 6 hours late. We were running through mud for several hundred feet as we left the Eastern Shore marina. My nephew, John, and I raised the antennas as we made our way…
Orangutans
The 3 day passage across the Java Sea started rough until we cleared the Raas islands north of Bali. Once clear of the rough waters, the seas calmed with winds less than 10 knots and we made good enough time that we arrived a half a day early but…
Lovely Lee
We had to take a photo with Lee and this boat! Isn’t he Lovely??? We where anchored in Puerto Escondido.
Digital camera choices
We purchased our first digital camera, a Canon
PowerShot Pro90 IS, in 2002. Many of our pictures are taken from a boat, with
the subject often at a distance. So we wanted a long lens to suc…
Stuck in Fairhope
We had planned to leave Fairhope this morning at 6:30, but we are sitting on the bottom in our slip. We knew this was a possibility, but thought that we could power out of the slip. So we are waiting for the tide to change to depar…
