We have slowly and surely adapted to the slower pace here at our Melbourne Beach home. While most of our cruising friends have already passed through, Bill and Robin on Blue Magic have decided to spend the winter in Stuart, FL. We drove down to visit w…
January 25, 2010
Greetings from Sanibel Island, FL! Last Monday was as beautiful as Sunday was blustery! No rain, very little wind, and a fine run for us across the FL panhandle to our jumping off spot for the Gulf Crossing.
Our arrival time at the East Pa…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-01-22 17:00:00
I went scuba diving today out at Sombrero Reef, which is a nearby marine sanctuary coral reef. I went on a dive boat, of which there are many around here, because a fellow Hatteras Owner’s Forum member, Pat Murphy, recommended it. There has been poo…
STARTING A NEW YEAR
In the New Year, when we arrived in Florida from Portland, OR, we couldn’t believe that it was colder in Jacksonville than in OR. Something is wrong here. We had just spent Christmas with our daughter and her family in Portland, and before that we ha…
Leixos (Porto) to Cascais via Figuiera da Foz
14th January 2010
We returned to the boat in time to rendezvous with my sister, Eileen, and her husband Terry who visited us as part of an “epic” itinerary from Australia – encompassing the Far East, Switzerland, Paris and Helsinki……. &n…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-01-21 15:46:00
Just enjoying Marathon Key today. It was 82 degrees and sunny all day.This is our lunchtime view from the aft deck, right into the Atlantic Ocean, with beautiful turquoise water, Ospreys and Pelicans fishing in the flats, and constant little fish jump…
Entering the Erie Canal
At the start of week two – that was at 4:00 today we were sitting at the dock in Waterford, NY. We are officially on the Erie Canal. Somehow this kind of marks the start of the trip for me. We started early this morning (7:00 am) from Catskill…
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…
