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Southbound?

Saturday morning we hop in our rent a car and head on back south to the boat.1200 miles, we should be there sometime Sunday.  Certainly can’t do that by boat!  But then why would you!  We enjoyed our 2 weeks home, got ALOT done but …

Sure doesn’t feel like Spring! Brrrrrrr

We had originally planned to leave Ma. on Sunday but we still have things to do and since the boat will not be ready to splash for a few more days we decided to stay an extra day or 2.  BTW it may be spring according to the calendar by its still C…

Engel USA customer service and a re-test

Well I will say customer service at Engel is prompt in contacting unhappy customers.  After sleeping on my unhappiness with the Engel cooler and posting on the Blog about it.  I decided I should give the company some benefit of doubt.  S…

Update on the Engel Cooler FYI

Back in Feb. we broke down and purchased the Engel 123 cooler.  We said we would update to let everyone know if it lived up to the hype of ” keeps ice for 8 days”.  Though a very nice cooler well built etc. it keeps ice for 4 days just 1…

SweetPea gets hauled out in Jacksonville for for bottom work.

 Today we are at Huckins to have SweetPea hauled for bottom work and inspection. We are very curious to see what her bottom is looking like.  This is very nerve racking to me  Her bottom looks better than we thought.  And the p…

Jacksonville Canvas and bottom work

As we sit in Jacksonville for the next few days it will be boat cleaning, rearranging and thinning out some STUFF to take back home that is not needed. Amazing how little you really need to live, granted we are not ruffing it by any means, its just eve…

Good Morning Jacksonville!

We left St Augustine yesterday for a 6 hour travel day to Jacksonville it was BRRRRRRrrrrr!  Hopefully it was the LAST day we will have to endure traveling without any enclosure.   The wind was in our faces all day.  But we made it,…

Cocoa Village to Daytona Beach and on to St Augustine

So we finally left Fort Pierce on Monday and Landed in Cocoa Village Monday night very windy and chilly.We met a up with The Firestones on Grace Full also loopers its always nice meeting up with fellow AGLCA members. We left there and arrived in D…

Day 148 and counting………. Fort Pierce

148 Days or 21 weeks WOW as long as that is, it is beginning to feel like we have been in Fort Pierce that long.  Well, maybe not I can certainly think of worse places to be.  Today, though still very windy, it would have been doable(?) …

Fort Pierce……… Still!

 Great deal we picked up 2 (new to us) locking fenders got both for less than the price of 1 The radar works! this is split screen radar on the left chartplotter on the right or you can overlay on one screen anchor and platform all beefe…