Several years back, I stumbled across a fun, quirky blog called The Cynical Sailor & His Salty Sidekick. Little did I know at the time, but this would be the start of a wonderful friendship with the author, Ellen Jacobson. For quite some time, it was merely a virtual/on-line...
National Family Island Regatta
Every year, during the last full weekend in April, the National Family Island Regatta is held in Elizabeth Harbor in Georgetown, Exuma. This is not to be confused with the annual Cruisers’ Regatta which is held at the end of February/beginning of March each year. The Cruisers’ Regatta is...
Welcome to Bimini!
We were seriously beginning to think this day may never come. Well…at least for this season. We’d even started toying around with the idea of heading down to the Florida Keys instead if there wasn’t a decent weather window for crossing to the Bahamas soon. Of course the Keys...
Escape From Indiantown
Aaaahhhh….we finally escaped the friendly grip of the Indiantown Marina Party Posse! After a relatively uneventful 19 mile motor down the St. Lucie Canal on the Okeechobee Waterway, we dropped the hook in the Pendarvis Cove Anchorage in Stuart, Florida. Hard to believe that it had been almost nine...
Indiantown Marina Party Posse (aka How NOT to Get Any Work Done!)
As you may recall, on our first night back at Indiantown back in November, we went to a catered dinner that had been provided by the marina. We’d met Ellen on Tickety Boo last spring and she’d seen us hanging out by ourselves that night, so had come over...
We’re Ba-ack!
Well…I didn’t do such a great job of updating the blog last winter, so let’s see if I can do better this time around! We’ve been on the boat now since the middle of November, but finally just crossed to Bimini on February 16th, so thought it was about...
Wind for Days (aka Our Ten Day Stay in Nassau…)
While we would have loved to have stayed in Bimini for a day or two to check it out, an upcoming weather front unfortunately dictated otherwise. If we didn’t continue on right away, we’d be stuck there for quite some time. And so, on we moved to Nassau, New...
Crossing the Gulf Stream – Take Two!
Those of you who have been following us for a while may remember that last year we hung out in Lake Worth for about three weeks waiting on a weather window to cross to the Abacos in the northern Bahamas, and when we finally got our window, conditions ended...
Gephyrophobia – Facing One of My Fears!
Gephyrophobia (pronounced Jeff-ee-ro-pho-bia) – or more simply put…a fear of bridges. I have this. I am afraid of driving across bridges. I am afraid of going under bridges. I have this irrational (maybe…maybe not!) fear that the bridge will fall as I’m crossing over or under it, leading to...
Oh, There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays!
This was to have been our first Christmas by ourselves, but we just couldn’t do it. We had been hard at work on boat projects in the work yard at Indiantown Marina for several weeks, and the plan was to launch Radio Waves on December 22nd and start our...