December 4, 2009After about a 6 week stay we’ve flown to RI where we’ll remain for the Christmas Holidays through January 1st.As we expected and despite being grounded for the winter, Telemar Bay Marina in Indian Harbor Beach, FL was a regular sto…
Winches, Paint and St Brit
Now that the deckhouse is on, the whole boat feels like it is not far from being ready for sea, poor fools that we are, there is so much more to do, not least the painting of the outside of the hull. We have got used to the silver primer (it matches th…
The Cursed Crossing- Break, Break, Break
We spoke with our good friend Andy Allen, owner of MV seeDee. He agreed to go with us on the crossing to the Abacos. We picked him up on Thursday night, had a great dinner at a Dominican Republic restaurant in Jacksonville, FL. Christie Comrie drove ou…
Getting Ready to Go to Abaco, Bahamas
John Henry was pulled for a new paint bottom job and the running gear cleaned by Holland Marine. While on the hard, Wink and Wilma did a lot of cleaning. All the portholes had their screens removed, cleaned and replaced along with the stainless ports …
November 30, 2009
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…
