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Mundane Boat Chores

I know many of you regular readers admire our glamorous, exciting, exotic lifestyle.   “Living like rock stars as you and Pam do,” you ask, “how do you not let it go to your head?  How do you stay rooted in reality?”Good question.  For m…

Tale of Furthur (in Russian)

Here is the link to past crew member, Anya’s, travel blog… Furthur has had crew from 15 different countries, Anya was our second Russian. It is so rewarding to know that people from all over the globe will hear about the Furthur Adventrures.
 
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2 weeks to go

Plans are now full steam ahead as we near take off date on our trip. The river levels upstream are rising with the recent rains in Qld and NSW. Both the Al’s are hard at work each day preparing the tinny with extra fuel tanks and brackets to hold more …

Sampson Cay Sharks

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Sharks at Sampson Cay

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Big Major to Black Point Settlement

We spent several days in Big Major and we had a great time. We toured town, attended the local church in Staniel Cay and snorleled with the hookah. Took a side trip to Sampson Cay for Julie to shop and saw the sharks waiting for the fish sc…

Kelly Archer Joins The Team

We are ever so pleased to announce that esteemed yacht builder Kelly Archer has joined the Dashew Offshore team. We’ve been working together with Kelly since 1978 when Kelly project-managed our first two Deerfoot designs (the original Deerfoot and Wakaroa) and we subsequently joined forces for several other Deerfoot builds. Kelly was our point man […]

Feb. 12 – Mardi Gras

Ashley Marina (Charleston)The last few days have been windy, cool and wet! We’ve had 4-6” of rain…mostly at night, but doing anything during the day outside has been very difficult. Our boat is about ¼ mile from the parking lot…plenty of time …

Today’s Pic

Vernon’s GroceryHope Town, Elbow Cay, BahamasVernon is a peculiar fellow… He’s the official marriage officer for Elbow He renewed our vows in 2002Nordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs
Memphis Downtown

FINISHING SEACOCKS

FINISHING SEACOCKS (posted /2/13)Next post will focus on Envoy’s cruising plans for 2013.Well-known and respected marine technical author Steve D’Antonio reviewed the last two posts re seacocks and added the following additional information.Ideally, …

FINISHING SEACOCKS

Next post will focus on Envoy’s cruising plans for 2013.Well-known and respected marine technical author Steve D’Antonio reviewed the last two posts re seacocks and added the following additional information.Ideally, any seacocks obtained in the US s…