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Making Progress

Making Progress (Continued…)

BUSTED

Busted literally. As we backed off our mooring ball this morning, our transmission failed to go in reverse. It did a kind of groan and promptly stopped. BOAT after all is an acronym for Bring on another Thousand…..or more. We got ourselves back o…

Getting Ready to BUST

Today we have spent getting ready to leave tomorrow morning. The bikes have been ferried back on board and stowed, I took one last ride to Publix for the last of the provisions. Laundry has been done, we had showers. The family car (dinghy) is back…

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Trouble in Miami on M/V Close Knit

Posting this to create some awareness for other cruisers and M/V Close Knit. See the attached video that they filmed while anchored in Sunset Lake, Miami, Florida. Visit their blog to let them know about your experiences and show them some support.

The THREAD lives

Another Canadian has made a stance against Fred Karlton. You will recall our earlier post on Bullying, well it continues since another Canadian had a bad experience Memorial Day weekend  (Continued…)

Hand Model

Bridget was a pretty good sport about being a hand model for the completed test knitting. I’ll take this set home to Kingston and get the new babies at home to really model them. It is super windy here today, coming from the North. We went out for l…

Complete Set

The test knitting complete (View Post…)

Clean as a Baby's Bum

Yup that’s our boat bottom. Diver Mike did a dandy job of making CK clean and slick for our departure next week. With the barnacles off our rudder and prop we should increase out knots which we may need as next week the forecast is for high winds, li…

Key West Trip May 26, 2011

Key West (Continued…)

Looks Like Pineapple To Me

I still have one mitten to go on my test knitting. I’m sorely over due, but mid way I decided to switch from bamboo DPN’s to the Magic Loop method and had to order on line and await the delivery. It makes it challenging with out a LYS. I have appreci…