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Let’s take a trip to the island of Eleuthera

This fantastic video is compliments of bahamaspress.com and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did… And please read our previous posts on the Bahamas,What Cruisers Want To Know About The BahamasWhat Do You Do Once Your In The Bahamas?Eleuthea Bahamas…

Anchoring Along the Intracoastal – Norfolk to the Georgia/Florida Border

By Susan Landry (Chartlets by Susan Landry, not to be used for navigation.)Our cruising posts in the past have always included our favorite anchoring spots. As the snowbirds head south this fall, some for a repeat performance, some for the first time, …

What Do You Do Once Your In The Bahamas?

Is It Really Better In The Bahamas??This is a follow to our post, What Cruisers Want To Know About The Bahamas. You’ve done all of your homework. You’ve picked the perfect weather window. You were in awe as the dark blue of the Gulf Stream gave way to …

Flybridge Makeover Part Two

With the “interior” makeover of the flybridge complete, the “exterior” was next on our list. Since the exterior of the boat has been painted in the past and we knew it was done in AwlGrip, the maintenance coat was a lot less labor intensive. First, all…

An Exhausting Project

The Christmas and New Years holiday season doesn’t mean the work on the boat will slow down or stop. If we are to stay on schedule, we need to push forward with all of our projects, even the smaller ones. Those smaller ones keep getting pushed down the…

Merry Christmas And A Very Happy New Year

Susan and I would like to wish all of our readers and friends a very merry Christmas as well as a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year for 2012. We’re looking forward to continuing the preparations for our next cruise and sharing those preparations w…

Holding Tank Monitor And Major Service On Our Ford Lehman

We posted our holding tank installation several months back and one of the unfinished parts of that project was to install a tank monitor. We did a lot of research on the different types and manufacturers and finally decided on the Solo Tank Monitor ma…

Trawler Flybridge Makeover

A major project that has been on my to-do list for a very long time is the renovation of the flybridge. I knew this was going to be a lot of work, and other more pressing projects have kept this on the back burner. But at some point, it really needed t…

Mustang Survival IPFD Recall

We have been users of the Mustang Inflatable Vests for many years and have been very satisfied with them. But we have recently been made aware of a recall due to a problem that might keep them from fully inflating. Here is the official recall notic…

Moeller Marine Products Review

Over the years we have often used Moeller Marine products, also sold under Tempo, and found them to be of fairly decent quality. But our most recent purchases have changed our opinion considerably. Here on the Beach House site we often post the specifi…