The early Monday morning finds us cruising along the Mobile Bay, in water that–at 8-8-1/2 feet–is not as deep as many swimming pools! It is a gorgeous sunny morning with fluffy clouds scattered randomly in a sky that contains more shades of blu…
November 2009 Wild Dunes, SC
November 2009 Bender BlogIsle of Palms, SC
This month saw no water travel at all but our Michelins have seen many road miles and we’re still in Charleston, SC. We returned from our mountain get-away the first of November. I love islands and clear wate…
November 23, 2009
We anchored in Sumter Landing last Sunday night, thinking we’d ease into Demopolis, AL on Monday. The four boats in the anchorage all locked through the Heflin Lock together, and by 1;30 we were actually leaving Demopolis, as there were…
Demopolis, AL to FLORIDA!
We have made it to Florida ! Six months, two weeks and five days. We are on the GIWW … Gulf Intracoastal Water Way … traveling east along the north end of the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the GIWW is separated from the Gulf by a thin strip of sand dunes…
Exhausts, doors and a hole in my boat
The boys have got on with the engine room connections now that the deckhouse is on, and we can see a little bit more how things are going to shape up indoors. Here is a bit of the skipper standing next to the Caterpiller (main engine) exhaust pipe (lef…
Hamble Point Marina -> Channel Islands
At 03:45 on a crisp late October morning we finally slipped the lines and motored Mad Sunday through the silky pond that was Southampton Water. We crossed the normally motorway-busy channel of the Solent, almost entirely alone, on calm waters. We g…
Tenn-Tom to Panama City
We stayed at Fosque Creek for 6 days waiting out the weather from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ida. The day before we left we hiked down to a spot below the lock at Demopolis and watched Martha Ann come through the lock. With the amount of wate…
Ashiya, Japan update
We are only 4 days away from Thanksgiving Day (depending on whose time zone you use) and I just realized that we have been living in one place (Ashiya, Japan) for almost three months! We have seen and learned so much here that it is difficult to put …
November 16, 2009
We are South. Mornings are chilly–typically in the 40’s, but the afternoons are gorgeous! Sunny, very little breeze and temps in the low to mid 70’s. No bugs and no humidity. Does it get better than this???
We left Cuba La…
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!
