Yes, we’re talking about the Blue Angels. They practiced over our marina for a few days before the Southernmost Air Spectacular show which was at the Naval Air Station on Boca Chica, the next island up from us. Of course…
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The wonders of Southeast Alaska continue to amaze us!My brother, Paul, joined ships company on the 8th of July. Phyl & Will, Sam Floyd, Paul and I spent the remainder of the 8th re-provisioning and fixing a couple of little things. Knowing we had t…
Oyster Hog is the name on this barge, it left Apalachcola in the morning loaded down with empty oyster shells. It brings them out to the oyster grounds in the bay, it has two water cannon which are used to wash the shells overboard. The shells give the…
GOOD NEWSThe generator only needed a simple part and that is being sent and should arrive tomorrow(Sat) or monday, so then we can be off again. Without going into detail, there appear to be no other electrical problems. We will top up the fuel ta…
We are a few days into this long passage and all is well. The ocean is remarkably calm and we are plodding along. I say plodding since we have not yet seen the favorable current that we expected. We are making about 130 miles per day, but we are hop…
We have left Panama City and are presently about half way up the Tenn-Tom Waterway that runs from Mobile, Alabama to the Tennessee River. We are headed back to Goose Pond Marina where SEASEA will be back in her home slip in a couple of weeks.Befo…
It is sad for me to report that we have had serious electrical problems and have been forced to turn around and head back to Mexico. Basically what happened was that the ‘black box’ on the generator literally went up in smoke, leaving us with no no…
Some of our friends and family have asked what a typical day on the boat is like. After we get up, have our coffee, read the paper, look at e-mail and or Facebook we sometimes have chores to do around the boat. Lately we have been washing pollen off the boat, today there was not as much pollen on […]
Here is the baby Great Blue Heron getting some breakfast.We didn’t take the boat out on the water today altought it was a nice day again this evening some of my childhood friends from when I was growing up in Puerto Rico are coming by for dinner. One o…
We’re on our way back to Juneau as I write this. We got a late start this afternoon, (more about that later), so we won’t get to Auke Bay Marina until the wee hours of July 6.We, (Sam Floyd, Phyllis, Will and I), left there on the afternoon of the …
