Location: Sarasota, Florida Coordinates: 27° 20.036′ N 82° 32.814′ W Hi all! Please excuse the long delay between my first Q&A blog and this one. I took advantage of being “close” to Texas (at least as close as we’ve been this year) to take Ayla on an extended driving trip to my home state. It […]
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December 2009 – Stern Thruster Installation, Bottom Job & Strip Painted
Barb decided that she wanted a stern thruster to make life easier. Here we go! Let’s cut BIG holes in our boat and hope it works out. The professionals came in and in 2 days we had a great addition to our floating home!It works great and makes do…
GSSR Recap
Introduction:
Please allow me to introduce you to three power boats that are
voyaging around the world. They are all Nordhavn long distance
expedition trawlers – Grey Pearl 62 feet long, Sans Souci 68 feet
long, and Seabird 62 feet long. Th…
72 restored chevy pickup for Alan
So we went to a car show and Alan came home with a 1972 Chevy Cheyene pickup (Sport model).Black with original interior except radio. Now we putt around town like ole farmers.:)
Back home
We left early in the morning from Wingates to beat the bad weather that was headed our way. We dodged the rain several times and even tied up to the wewa dock during one squall. Made it back to the boat ramp and pulled her out and drove home. It was a …
Bainbridge, Ga
We left Wingates early and headed for Bainbridge. It was a nice trip and we found the town dock to tie up to. We walked along the river and through this beautiful Live Oak park to the small downtown area. Had lunch at a chinese restaurant which was t…
Apalachicola River cruise to Bainbridge Ga
We left John’s on Sunday morning after a great breakfast from our host. Alan and I wanted to cruise up the river to Chattahoochee and lock through to Lake Seminole to the Flint River. We had a beautiful day for cruising and made good time. Saw many hou…
Apalachicola C-Brat gathering at John’s place on the River
Put the boat in at Apalachicola ramp and cruised over to Papa Joe’s for some lunch. After a great meal we cruised over to John’s for the C-Brat weekend of fun.
Ok, this got too hot.
This is the shore side end of our power cable that we used to power our air conditioning. It has obliviously gotten way too hot. The receptacle that it was plugged into was old and worn out and destroyed both of them. I had to cut back 10′ of cable bef…
The Rest of the Story
Yes we made it from Seattle to Tokyo…but there were some mechanical speed-bumps. Here is a partial list of malfunctions that occurred on the Grey Pearl during the GSSR.
Introduction – As can be expected on a long voyage there will be system…
