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...
Bridges
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...
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...
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bridges!
Or shoals…or live firing at Marine Corps bases…or opposing currents…or eight foot tides…or high winds when we’re at anchor… Everything doesn’t always come up roses when traveling down the ICW in a sailboat that needs 53 feet of clearance above it and 6 feet below! On the day that...