Archive | Just Believe RSS feed for this section

Our visit in the St Pete area was awesome! My parents came over from Inverness and spent 2 days on the boat with us. plus taking us “provision” shopping. Then my sister, Benita, and husband, Randy, came to stay with us for a few days and too…

We left Apalachicola before 8am Friday morning heading for the Government cut that is the direct path to the gulf. The marina manager told us to stay to the green side of the cut so we wouldn’t hit bottom and we followed his advice. We …

We are in Apalachicola and are ready to head out into the gulf tomorrow, so we can get to Saint Petersburg by Saturday. Our weather buddy says we need to depart tomorrow for the best weather.
We arrived at Apalachicola just past sundown toni…

When we were stuck in the marina in Fairhope my nephew measured the depth at the stern of the boat and it was approximately 6’4″ and on the bottom. We had 600 gallons of fuel onboard at the time. My guess is that the 6’6″ draft advertised by…

We finally got enough water under the boat to leave Fairhope about 12:30pm, 6 hours late. We were running through mud for several hundred feet as we left the Eastern Shore marina. My nephew, John, and I raised the antennas as we made our way…

We had planned to leave Fairhope this morning at 6:30, but we are sitting on the bottom in our slip. We knew this was a possibility, but thought that we could power out of the slip. So we are waiting for the tide to change to depar…

Our beloved Sea Dog 1, Ginger, was diagnosed with cancer of the heart and liver today. She was a great friend, traveling companion and some times helped take care of family. When Julie had cancer, she was there with her taking care of h…

After our aborted trip to the US, we fixed the stabilizers and went back to Texas the next day so we would be home for Thanksgiving.  We spent Thanksgiving in Port Aransas, drove back to Austin and then the ranch so we could see the new…

Well we are now heading for Mobile Alabama. We drove there last Monday and found a slip for the boat and then flew to Grand Cayman today, cleared out and are on our way. We decided to bypass New Orleans since our aborted attempt last week. W…

This is mostly technical stuff:
We left Grand Cayman early on the 17th and were hoping for a good trip to New Orleans. When we were about 4 hours out from the North Sound where the marina was, our stabilizers stopped working. At the time we …