March 7, 2020On December 26, 2012 renowned sailors and Great Loop bloggers Katie and Jessie landed here at Twin Rivers Marina in Crystal River with their diesel engine “pissing” coolant. Mechanics from miles around dropped everything to come to the aid of the two distressed mariners and quickly diagnosed the problem as a rusted freeze
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Another Olga and a Luna!
February 14, 2020 Somehow I missed the launch last December of Friedbert Hennemuth’s exquisite Luna. This is indeed the “Luna” version of Mark’s Olga 28 design with a small diesel coupled to a saildrive. What beautiful work! Folks give me a hard time about the amount of brightwork I have on the Tardis, but Friedbert
Mystery Solved
February 8, 2020 This is our February home in St. Petersburg at Harborage Marina. A great slip in a quiet corner of the marina. The ramp goes up to a seawall with fantastic views of St. Pete and also leads to a shower area and laundry. Great trip up from Venice — 46 miles including
Fall Work
January 31, 2020 Coming to you from Venice, FL after a beautiful trip up from Fort Myers. Spent four nights there in a slip at the municipal marina that was literally right downtown. So a good place to provision, decompress and get the boat set up for cruising. Then on north with the boat running
Not Dead Yet
January 19, 2020 I can’t believe it has been almost a year since I posted anything on this site, but I had a lot of excuses: a bruising municipal election campaign (we won!), a trip to France for the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, the death of my image-stabilized camera, and a fabulous five-week
Credit Where Credit is Due
April 10, 2019 As you could sense from my last post, the engine and all systems were working great cruising around Pine Island Sound. Dave, Peggy and the whole team at Sweetwater Landing Marina did a great job in a difficult situation. I pulled in out of the blue to get a new prop, and
Poking Around Pine Island Sound
April 7, 2019 Pine Island Sound doesn’t have the reputation it deserves as a cruising destination, because it isn’t very big — about 50 miles long by 20 miles wide — and it’s pretty shallow so the superyachts can’t go there. But it has two delightful small cities, Fort Myers and Punta Gorda, filled with
Boat Work and Bugs
March 17, 2019 We are safely ensconced in incredible Legacy Harbour Marina in Fort Myers, and all seems well with the engine — but I want to go more than the 8 miles it took to get here before stating that definitely. This has been a really lazy trip. I brought my sewing machine, all
Shipwrecked!
Madison, CT March 9, 2019 So why is the Tardis flying through the air? Why is this post coming to you from Madison, CT? Where to begin? My friend Pat Harris and I were taking the boat across Florida on what had actually been a rather boring cruise across the Okeechobee Waterway from Vero Beach
And Then There Was the Day I Fell In
March 2, 2019 Everything had been going great in Vero getting the dinghy ready for the big Okeechobee trip — blew right up, fits great on the roof, engine all serviced. But then I got over confident and tried to attach the engine to the dinghy from a little dock next to the boat that
