We have been back in Athens, Georgia taking care of family and getting a house ready for rental since returning to Jacksonville in January.In March we headed to Jacksonville to meet our friend Joan Elliott and make a run aboard SEASEA. …
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SEASEA back in Jacksonville
We got back to the east coast and made the decision to head back north to Jacksonville, Florida so that we could get back to Athens, GA to see about Stacy’s parents. Her mother had another coronary stent in November and her father was diagnosed w…
Ft. Myers to Vero Beach
After leaving Punta Gorda we headed to Ft. Myers to anchor for one night before starting across the Okeechobee Waterway to the east coast. There are 5 locks on the waterway and they are different from any others in the country in that there are n…
Tarpon Springs to Punta Gorda
We stayed in Tarpon Springs for 4 days waiting out the big blow from the strong cold front. We left on December 15 and headed down to St. Petersburg. We anchored in the basin next to the Vinoy hotel (Pink Hotel on right) and took a trolley t…
Crossing the Gulf of Mexico
Before we left Panama City we were able to meet our friends Rich and Isis that we met last winter at the church we attended. They came to pick us up and we had dinner at their house with another friend.After dinner we headed back and stopped on t…
Fort Walton Beach & Thanksgiving in Panama City
After leaving Little Sabine Bay at Pensacola, we headed for the free dock at Ft. Walton Beach. This dock is provided by the city for one overnight stay but has no power. It is a chance to get off the boat without using the dinghy howev…
AGLCA Rendezvous, Tenn-Tom, Bottom Paint & Pensacola
We attended the AGLCA Rendezvous at Joe Wheeler State Park where we got our usual spot and for the 4th year volunteered to handle the boat parking for 60+ boats that were coming in. The marina would give us the list and slip assignments and we wo…
Hot summer at Goose Pond Marina
It was a very hot summer at Goose Pond Marina on the Tennessee River. We spent most of the summer getting SEASEA ready to travel back down river in the fall and working on other boats in the marina. I stripped and refinished the interior te…
Babies, Graduations, Weddings and boating with the Rays
After we got back to Athens we attended our Nephew Andrew Brannon’s graduation from the University of Georgia. We then went to the wedding of our Nephew Caleb Tingle and saw there for the first time our new Great Niece Sophie Tingle, daughter of …
Tenn-Tom with Eagle One and back at Goose Pond Marina
We stopped for a visit at the museum of the Snagboat “Montgomery” and the Bevill visitor’s center that was built as a combination of three different plantation houses. The snagboat was the last active duty steam powered vessel used by the U.S. Ar…