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OK, so this has not been much of a cruising blog since May. Not what we planned, in fact nothing this summer had much to do with planning, and after the first three weeks of May slid by, we just gave up on planning and determined that we’d simply go …

    Molly & Black Dog chilling on the pier Tuesday morning’s plan was a short hop in the car with Molly to pick up a new lav bowl. As we headed to the parking lot, we met an unfamiliar dog. Friendly enough guy, appeared to be a lab-pit mix as a…

    Master lav removed, access to vacuum switch. A simple pumpout. No big deal. Odd that the forward head didn’t shut off after flushing a few bowls of fresh water, so I knew I was in for some maintenance. The guest head had had the vacuum switch r…

Maerin is still at Stansbury, and we’ve gone separate ways in a manner of speaking. Barb is spending the bulk of her time in York looking after her mother who had the misfortune of taking a fall down a flight of stairs at her home. No permanent damag…

We arrived at Stansbury on Memorial Day after our cruise from Solomon’s. Our stopover there was highlighted with a visit with Bill & Jean of Chapter III who are always a joy to visit and catch up with. They had some unintentional involvement in o…

We cruised a few long days in order to make landfall at Manteo, NC. We took advantage of good weather to put some miles under the keel and make, of all things, a scheduled stop. Normally a foreign thought aboard Maerin, we initiated the travel-on-a-pla…

    Palm Coast cottage Our run from St. Augustine takes us through Palm Valley, with some of Florida’s prime real estate fronting the ICW. We experienced some fairly strong squalls in the afternoon, but nothing other than some wind and rain. We arr…