Month: December 2013

Sea Sickness

Beware, the title of this post is not a metaphor for longing for the sea or anything poetic like that. This post is really about seasickness, the puking kind. You have been warned. Imagine you are in the middle of…

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West Bay

December 3 – December 5. The sounds of a Calypso crooner singing “Down on the Boardwalk” float over the bay and drift through the hatches. Night has fallen and we are tucked into the v-berth after eating a hot meal,…

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Bimini to New Providence

November 30 – December 2. We have a three-day window to get to New Providence. The first two thirds of the trip is across the fairly shallow Great Bahama Bank. The last third is through the Northwest Channel with depths…

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Crossing to Bimini 2013

November 26 – November 27. The human mind is a curious thing. One day you’re “living the life” on a sailboat in southern Florida. Then you get it in your mind you want to cross the Gulf Stream over to…

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Stuart to Miami

November 19 – November 25. Woo Hoo! We’re underway. It’s November 19th. We asked to raise the Roosevelt drawbridge at sunup. We motored out the St. Lucie inlet. And we’re now sailing south in the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart and the…

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Back to Stuart

And so, it’s back to Stuart to live in my folks’ house and get the boat ready for next season. We started by having Blue Wing moved from storage in Indiantown to the work yard there. Here I sanded the…

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2013 Traveling on the Dirt

For a few days at the end of June we found ourselves more homeless than usual. There was a two day gap in our house sitting schedule so we crammed all of stuff back into our little Honda Civic and…

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