Really Mom?We are taking a break, in Daytona Beach for Christmas. Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday.Totally missing our beautiful family.Merry Christmas from Smithville.Love, Rick, Deb & Izzy
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Our "Love – Hate" relationship
I love the ICW, Rick hates it. I love the beautiful anchorages, lovely homes and scenery. Rick hates, the skinny water. He would much prefer going out any cut into the wide open waters and skipping all the drama of the tides, channel …
The lovely thing about cruising is that planning turns out to be of little use.
So lets see. We last left this post leaving Swansboro, NC and happy to report we made it to mile 278.2 despite the cold front that blew through. Lucky to make it thru Onslow Bridge – they shut it down 1/2 hour after we passed through it bec…
GLIDE "to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance".
And that is what we are doing now after the prop, rudder and bottom fix. As promised Sailcraft Services splashed us on Saturday and we have to say we could not be more pleased with the job and their entire crew. In the past 13 years of cruising -…
Moving along at a Snails pace
As mentioned in the last post, we had a good crossing of Albemarle Sound and anchored in a beautiful anchorage called the “Pungo River Anchorage” at about mile 127. Next day up and out early hoping to make Oriental, NC at about mile 182. Du…
We are on the move!!!
We have not been boating on Broulee since September 2012 (after our trip to Maine). It was a little nerve wracking to finally pull the plug and pull away from the dock, but at 6:30 Saturday morning we finally did just that. You know, trying to re…
Black Friday
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving – we sure did. Looks like a go for tomorrow (Saturday) to start our trek south to warmer temps. Awoke this morning to ice on the river and we know we need to get out of here so we don’t get stuck here …
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Birthday Georgia Peach!!!
Actually we already had our family Thanksgiving – November 2nd. Debs parents were leaving for their winter home in Arizona and we were getting ready to leave for Broulee. Amazing how much you have to pay for a turkey prior to the Thanksgiving sal…
We are baaaack and It’s time to get moving!!!, Part II
After getting our annual “Smith Family Pheasant Hunt” accomplished we packed up the car and headed for Broulee. Four hours of hunting in the rain proved to be a challenge, but we managed to get our six birds and everyone, but mostly Izzy, enjoyed…
It’s time to get moving!!!
It’s time! We’ve been busy buttoning up things in the frigid north and have our sights on heading back to Broulee.Rick getting our bumper crop of peanuts dug up before our first frost. This was our first experiment with peanuts and probably…
