Norfolk, VA
To see as much of the world as we can,
Using the smallest carbon footprint we can,
Spending the least amount of money we can,
Making as many friends we can.
Moored. Ball 5. 26°27.3728′N 081°57.0415′W.
Yesterday we walked down to the Tuckaway Cafe coffee shop. It's a big operation. There's one road up the island and that means traffic is slow. Very slow. Walking makes so much more sense.
Moored. Ball 5. 26°27.3728′N 081°57.0415′W.
Yesterday we looked at the other dinghy dock. The one by city hall.
Yes, it's hidden in a bunch of mangroves. It's far from everything: showers, laundry, bars, restaurants.
It's slightly closer to the …
Moored. Ball 5. 26°27.3728′N 081°57.0415′W.
Since moving to the mooring ball, we've really ramped down to -- well -- nothing.
The grocery store is behind the Snook Bight Marina. The marina doesn't have a proper dinghy dock, but the Bayside Bistro does have a …
Shifted to Ft. Myers Beach Mooring.
Moored. Ball 5. 26°27.3728′N 081°57.0415′W.
We had a Docwa confusion with the mooring ball assignment.
We find Docwa to be handy for making reservations. The Docwa dance involves you making a request and the …
Remaining moored in the Garrison Bight Mooring Field. Our location is 24°34.704′N 081°47.151′W.
The weather has started to moderate.
Small Craft Advisories for the last five days have kept us out of the dinghy, and sitting on Red Ranger …
Steadfastly moored in the Garrison Bight Mooring Field. Our location is 24°34.704′N 081°47.151′W.
You can -- in a way -- see the waves rolling through here. There are whitecaps. Which means the dinghy ride will be a Splashwater Kingdom water-slide. Except salty.
Reliably moored in the Garrison Bight Mooring Field. Our location is 24°34.704′N 081°47.151′W.
Lunch at Blue Heaven.
The weather is looking almost scary for the next few days.
Lower FLKeys-KeyWest:
Variable NE-SE under 12k<NNW-N up to 15k/1-3' …
Still moored in the Garrison Bight Mooring Field. Our location is 24°34.704′N 081°47.151′W.
Big Lesson Up Front: Taking your own boat to Key West is difficult. I don't recommend it. A better approach is take your boat to Marathon and take …
We've moored in the Garrison Bight Mooring Field. Our location is 24°34.704′N 081°47.151′W; putting us on one of the furthest balls out in the mooring field, a full mile from shore.
Big Lesson Up Front: Taking your own boat to Key …
We're (still) moored on ball K-9 (at 24°42.250′N 081°05.550′W) in Boot Key Harbor.
Today is prep-to-go day.
This means laundry, top off the water, take on any final galley stores, and final weather check.
This now means checking the …
We're (still) moored on ball K-9 (at 24°42.250′N 081°05.550′W) in Boot Key Harbor.
CA took this picture of me, aloft.
It's real work getting up there.
Planning the work to make sure you have the right tools is hard.
And …
We're (still) moored on ball K-9 (at 24°42.250′N 081°05.550′W) in Boot Key Harbor.
Beth Leonard (I think) said "Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic places."
For the last three days I've been going aloft to work on our OGM LXTA masthead light. It …
We're (still) moored on ball K-9 (at 24°42.250′N 081°05.550′W) in Boot Key Harbor.
It's time for a brief recap of the past few months and (about) 1,000 miles of cruising.
Let's roll the clock back to October 13 …
We're moored on ball K-9 (at 24°42.250′N 081°05.550′W) in Boot Key Harbor.
I've ordered a replacement for the mast-head OGM-LXTA-S light. It's a sealed unit. Maybe Weems & Plath will repair or refurbish the old one so I can have it …
Our fourth Island-hopping "day sailing". (Ugh. Again. Not actually sailing, the wind was almost on the nose, so it was a 5-hour motor.)
We're moored on ball K-9 (at 24°42.250′N 081°05.550′W) in Boot Key Harbor. It's between Boot Key and Vaca …
Check this out.
This barge came out to inspect and refurbish the moorings.
On a nice day with flat seas? Looks like it might be a fun outdoorsy job.
Today? With 2'-3' waves?
What a nightmare for this crew. They pointed out that we had …
We had a pile of problems today. Problems stack up from small to large. A kind of inverted pyramid of trouble. This left us feeling discouraged.
Today's problem #1: it's rough. The Jensen Beach mooring field is exposed to the East and South …
It's rough on the mooring ball. Breeze is in the teens, and gusting into the mid 20's.
The sea state starts to change at 17kt, what they call Force 5 on the Beaufort Scale. The key indicator? "Numerous Whitecaps".
In open water, this can mean …
12 years ago...
We'd bought a boat back in December. We'd fiddled about a bit in January and February.
Now, it's march, and she's going into the shed to have the foredeck (and some other places) rebuilt. Water had intruded and rotted the balsa …
"...That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
Today: laundry, last-minute supplies, weather.
We'll miss Miami. In particular, the last two nights were beautiful. The three of four days previous, however, were gusty and crappy. The Dinner Key Mooring field is a world of extremes: flip-flopping between …
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