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June & July 2010 – Our Big Trip – Day 7 & 8

Day 7 – Sunday, June 20 – Layday in Corpus. USS Lexington! Day 8 – Monday, June 21 – Layday in Corpus. Trip to the USS Lexington. Kids!

June & July 2010 – Our Big Trip – Day 6

Day 6 – Saturday, June 19 – Key Allegro to Corpus Christi Marina.Today we took the inside cut, a route that we’ve never done before. This allowed us to reduce the amount of time in open water. Open water has not been fun as it has been windy causing …

June & July 2010 Our Big Trip – Day 5

Day 5 – Friday, June 18 – Layover day at Key Allegro Marina. Key Allegro Marina!Headed out on our boat bikes to City of Fulton. Fulton Marina

June & July 2010 – Our Big Trip – Day 1 -4

Day 1 – Monday, June 14 – Clear Lake to Bridge Harbor Marina in Freeport, TX. Not a real exciting day, we’ve done this trip numerous times. It’s about an 8 hour day at 7 kts. Parley – John & Kristy heading home from Corpus Christi trip! Docke…

June & July 2010 – Our Big Trip

Our big summer trip was supposed to take us from Clear Lake to Mobile Alabama, up the Tenn-Tom and back to Clear Lake for total of six weeks. A lot of work went into the planning for this trip but due to the BP Oil spill it was cancelled this year! Bec…

May 2010 – Memorial Weekend at GYB

Last Trade was the TMCA Memorial Weekend Cruiseleader to Galveston Yacht Basin. Thirty-seven boats participated, the final count was 17 power and 20 sail. Some of the boats headed down on Friday, May 28th and the rest arrived on the 29th. All had a gre…

April 2010 – TMCA Ins & Outs Cruise on More Good Timin’

Ernie & Camille Rogers on More Good Timin’ asked us to join them on the “Ins & Outs” Cruise. This was a great opportunity for us because we really do miss sailing. The cruise itinerary was for our 7 boat flotilla to head out on Friday to Laguna…

March 2010 – Spring Break Lake Charles Trip

Clear Lake, TX to Lake Charles, LAMarch 13th departure date / return by March 21stJosh, Barb & Daniel Wallach – M/V Last TradeJohn & Wendy Ellor – M/V KnotugalBarry & Barb Dupuy – S/V Morning StarErnie & Camille Rogers – S/V Mor…

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…

November 2009 – Oak Island – Job Beason Park Marina

This was supposed to be a cruise to Smith Point but due to low water no one could get up close enough to the bulkhead to tie up! We decided to head over to Oak Island to the new Job Beason Park Marina.Another fun cruise in spite of adversity!