Author: Greg & Lyn

At times it seemed like we would be stuck in FL for the entire winter. Then all of sudden a window opened up to cross the gulf stream. On Monday, it looked like Tuesday would be a great day.   But Tue, the weather wasn’t matching the forecast, so we listened to the weather guru… Continue reading We made it!!

Well, we’d read about it and wondered about it. Now we know about it. Vero Beach is an amazing cruising stop. For some it’s a place to refuel, rewater and reprovision. For some it’s a destination for the winter. For others, the velcro becomes permanent. In any event, it’s immediately obvious why it’s known as… Continue reading Velcro Beach

As soon as we stared planning this trip, people asked us “inside or outside?” In other words, were we planning to go down the ICW the whole way or would we jump offshore for part of the trip. The stretch most talked about was Georgia. Most people said some version of “I’m glad we did… Continue reading Inside or Outside?

One of the interesting aspects of traveling by boat down the ICW is how many times we meet people we know along the way. Usually it’s a boat that we met in one anchorage that we meet again in a new place.  This time it was at least a little pre-arranged. We stopped just outside… Continue reading Old Faces, New Places

Before we left, our friends on Alexia graciously gave us the lat/lon of places they anchored in NC and SC. One of the locations had a cryptic note: “for an adventure on a windless day…” Well, it wasn’t windless, but with a note like that we had to check it out. So yesterday, we worked… Continue reading The Swamp Fox

At least the aft head is.  It’s amazing how stiff that 1-1/2″ sanitation hose is!  Especially when it’s 40 deg outside.  Only through generous application of a heat gun and a little persuasion with a sawz-all did all those stupid hoses make those bends and fit into those little spaces. At one point during the… Continue reading We’re legal now

Fixing up “this old boat” sure makes for a short season!  🙁 We did get out for a handful of weekends and a few daysails once we got the major work done.  Enough to sink the hook deep – we’re more committed than ever to getting her back in shape.  More than that, it was… Continue reading Back in the yard

Now the work starts.  As Lyn says all too often, we’re living “this old boat.” After we trucked our ‘new to us’ Pearson 422, Paperbird, to Annapolis from Houston, we splashed her on the Magothy river and started on the list.  And what a list it is… The good news is that we get to… Continue reading Rehab – and so it starts…

Once the search was on we had to get more specific about what we wanted to find.  A couple things stood out as preferences: – not filled up with electronics that were really great when installed a few years ago, but were essentially obsolete now.  You pay for them.  You’d like to replace them.  But… Continue reading The find

Some years ago, a friend told that the 1st step in going cruising was …  “sell your boat.”  We didn’t believe him.  Actually, we didn’t want to believe him.  But he was right.  Two reasons: 1 – you start saving money.  Without the ongoing expense of maintaining a boat, slip, etc, you start to build… Continue reading The Search