As usual, this post is from a long time ago. I just haven’t taken the time to sit down to write it. In other news, we have made some big changes, and we are living in Maine. I’ll write about that separately. So in the last post we were in Key Marathon, we stayed there [...]
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In the Florida Keys…
Yes, we made it to our planned final destination on this trip. We are tied up in Marathon, at Dockside Marina.The prices at Dockside drop to off season prices on May 1st. And the reason is that it is HOT! The first two days we were here, we had to leave the boat, because the [...]
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We made it to Lauderdale. I had to change the Fuel lift Pump that was leaking before we left. It took 2 days to come in. It took me a while to do. The pump is on the side of the Yanmar, and difficult to get to. It was easy taking it off, but getting [...]
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This is more of a social commentary, then a post about our sailing trip. So if you don’t want to read it, just stop after the next paragraph. So we stayed in Sebastian for a while, stopped in Vero Beach for 2 days. Vero is a nice place to stop, because they have a city [...]
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Well we loaded up the Saturn SC1 and with the suspension bottomed out, took I-95 South to St. Mary’s, GA. After spending 3-4 weeks in St. Mary’s, GA, we finally got moving. We had a few projects we wanted to take care of before we left. One big project was to install 2 propane lockers [...]
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Well I haven’t posted in a very long time. Sorry about that, I am going to try and not let that happen again. So what has happened since June? Quite a bit… It took us 5 long days of motoring to get up to St. Mary’s, GA. This is where we decided to leave the [...]
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If you looked at the map on the site, you can see we are back. It was a very long difficult trip back, but we made it, and it is good to be back in the US. We really missed all of the conveniences, food, water and other good stuff that we take for granted [...]
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We were sad to leave Hope Town, but we had to go. We are officially heading back now. We motor sailed over to Gauna Cay this morning. It took about two and a half hours. We had the wind behind us, and it was kind of light, so we had the diesel running too. It [...]
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We arrived in Hope Town yesterday afternoon, after 3 hours of motoring into the wind and waves. It wasn’t a bad trip, jut slow, we averaged around 4 knots. But we are very happy to be here. Hope Town is by far the nicest place we have been. The town is unbelievable! All the houses [...]
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After several nice days in Treasure Cay, we actually sailed to Marsh Harbor 13 miles to the South. Yes, we turned off the engine and had the Main and Jib up and were sailing between 5 and 5.7 knots. We had a small bit of excitement on the way. After leaving the harbor, Nadia steered [...]
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