Tag Archives | Great Loop

Port St. Joe Marina – 1/10/11

Final preparations to depart after more than a month here. Today I changed all the fuel and coolant filters which took a major part of the afternoon. Of course during the mantenance while changing the fuel filter on the genset, while draining the Rac…

Port St. Joe – 1/9/11

This is the final activity day of the rendezvous which was a 10 a.m. breakfast at the marina Dockside Cafe. Do partly to the high winds, there was close to 40 loopers at the meeting with only 4 or 5 couples on boats. Breakfast was pretty good buffet…

Sunday, 1/9/11

Zoe, Merrygoround Boca Chica, Key West, FL…This has been the best week on our trip because we got to see three of our five kids and our only granddaughter, Zoe. Michelle and Kaely, Sunset Pier Grandpa reads to Zoe

The route planning

We visited Biloxi this past weekend and found out that there are two marinas there. Beau Rivage marina is not opened and won’t be anytime soon. I am wondering how much of this we will encounter on our trip due to the hurricanes Katrina and Rita that h…

The route planning

We visited Biloxi this past weekend and found out that there are two marinas there. Beau Rivage marina is not opened and won’t be anytime soon. I am wondering how much of this we will encounter on our trip due to the hurricanes Katrina and Rita that h…

Sunday, 1/2/11

Boca Chica, Key West, FL … This week was a week to accomplish much needed work on LESSER LIGHT, like change the oil, polish fiberglass and stainless steel and repair our dinghy which we learned had some damage after all after when we hit a piling while departing from a marina in VA.  The lower grungeon […]

Sunday, 12/26/10

Boca Chica USN Marina, Key West.  This was a very busy week.  One night we rode another trolley around KW and saw all the Christmas decorated houses that won the contest for decorations.  Went with 1st Bapt. Church group where we’re worshipping and enjoying Bible Study.  Many kids aboard which made it extra fun.  Went […]

Planning our next adventure

Well we are starting to get the fever again for some cruising and are planning our tri to complete the loop that we didn’t in 2008. We are going to cruise from Panama City , Fl to the Texas Coast the first of April 2011. The planning is always one of m…

Planning our next adventure

Well we are starting to get the fever again for some cruising and are planning our tri to complete the loop that we didn’t in 2008. We are going to cruise from Panama City , Fl to the Texas Coast the first of April 2011. The planning is always one of m…

New Orleans to Gulfport, MS

New Orleans to Gulfport

We had a delightful departure from New Orleans.  After getting fuel, we departed southbound back into the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal down to the turning basin and back onto the GICW.  It was a bright and sunny day …