One week out

Well it is almost a week and it feels like we just left.I last wrote as we were heading up Barnegat Bay. We were heading for Manesquan and expected to find a dock. Well Saturday nite in Manesquan is a zoo. I started early and it seems that no one in th…

Serendipity is on the move! Yea!

On Tuesday, July 21st 2009 after a marathon getting ready session we got to the boat at 3:00 pm and we cut the umbilical cord at 4:00pm and headed for Cape May.What a marathon final 2 days we had. Spent all of Monday emptying the excess stuff from the …

The Florida Keys

We are currently anchored off Key Largo on the Atlantic side of the Florida Keys. We are not quite tucked in behind Rodriguez Key, but we are not completely exposed to the south either. As we anchored last night, we had an ongoing discussion of how far…

Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-01-19 16:25:00

We’re at Marathon Key, tied up to our favorite dock space where we can see sunsets directly into the Atlantic Ocean right from our aft deck. Very nice!We left Marco Island just after dawn and passed the many condos on the beach as the sun rose. We d…

January 18, 2010

Well, sure enough, it is Mid-January, and as promised (threatened?)  we’re Baaaaackkkkkkkkk!

We certainly hope you and your family and friends enjoyed a particularly wonderful Holiday Season!  We did!  It was great to be ‘home’ in…

Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-01-18 15:44:00

Cruising again starts tomorrow!The boat is all prepped, including the reinstalled FloScan fuel monitor, and stocked, including a wonderful mango pie from the local Paradise Deli on Marco Island. Today we took our car to Marathon Key, in the middle of…

Stern Light

After mounting the dingy on the new Sea Wise Davit in the raised position, the dingy hides the stern light which is against the Coast Guard Navigation Rules pertaining to lights.  We are having an additional mast mounted white light installed on the transom that will extend above the top of the dingy and provide […]

Ready, Set,Wait…………..

We arrived in CA on New Year’s Day to begin 2 weeks of provisioning and outfitting the boat.  We were scheduled to depart for Mexico on Thursday, Jan 14 at 4:00 pm.  During the first 2 weeks we worked 13-14 hours each day shopping for everyth…

Ready, Set,Wait…………..

We arrived in CA on New Year’s Day to begin 2 weeks of provisioning and outfitting the boat.  We were scheduled to depart for Mexico on Thursday, Jan 14 at 4:00 pm.  During the first 2 weeks we worked 13-14 hours each day shopping for everyth…

Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-01-15 18:03:00

Back on the boat! Daisy and I drove back from Chicago, arriving this evening. It was 10 degrees with a foot of snow in Chicago and it’s 78 here and beautiful sunny weather. I’m picking up Kathy at the Ft. Lauderdale airport tomorrow so we can prep th…