We sat in the boat yard for almost 2 months, most of that time was waiting on a replacement board to fix our ailing Trace 4000w inverter. The board was to have been made in a Canadian subsidiary where the Trace inverter is now housed. It is no longer m…
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A new look
With the help of our talented daughter Katie, we have started to revamp the look and feel of the web site. In part to make it feel more like we want and in part to improve the functionality of the blog. To that end the layout is better a…
M/V Coping
Good friends of ours, Ray and Susan Cope, aboard M/V Coping, a sister boat to ours have just begun an over night crossing of the Gulf of Mexico. This is some where close to their 35th crossing. Pictured above is a shot we took of Coping as we were trav…
Thruster props..err ..which way to go
I had Seabright on the hard for a bottom job which included cleaning and painting the thruster props both bow and stern. The final job looked really great!When we splashed back into the water earlier this week, as per my usual routine, I check…
Yard time
Since returning home Seabright and crew have been having a bit of a down time after our daughter Katie’s wedding and son Johnny’s college graduation, both within 12 days of each other. Seabright has been living the high life getting pampered in a boa…
It’s the ICW all the Way
We have never done the ICW from the zero marker in Norfolk VA., to Key West and back. Somewhere, somehow along the way we typically jump out off shore and go past some of the worst spots. It’s just the two of us and we tend to limit our outside run to …
Anchoring in Hawks Channel
We knew when we departed Key West that our options were largely limited to anchoring out each night. If your desire is to marina hop, unless your speed is faster than ours, it is hard to find options that work with our draft and an easy days’ range. Th…
A bit of this and a bit of that, and a lession or two
A recent email with a fellow boater/friend reminded me of a few incidents while traveling north in March. The first occurred in that stretch of the ICW between Wrightsville Beach north to Morehead City.We happened upon by chance, a group of 3 motors …
Key West Gardnes
As part of the Outer Reef Rendezvous, we had a wonderful opportunity to see a part of Key West that we had not seen before. Explore some of the nooks and crannies off the beaten path and off of the tourist area of Duval Street.This was and the ones tha…
Hawks Channel & The Fla Keys
We have been to Key West before by car. The farthest south we have gone by boat was Marathon last year where we turned N/NE and went to the Florida Everglades and worked our way up the west coast of Fla. So this was a new experience.We departed Ft Laud…
