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  10AM Thus far I am pleased with our fuel burn and progress.  Today (Monday the 27th) promised light winds from 60 apparent off the starboard bow.   The promise has been kept, right now I’m motoring ½ throttle on the starboard engine and sails to just hold a 5 knot average.  Tomorrow winds are due […]

  Tom and Cindy arrived late Thursday night.  We slept in a little and then headed off to Tarpon Springs.  Tarpon Springs is a wonderful little coastal community that has a strong Greek influence and is known for harvesting sponges.  Here is a little history: The beginning of the sponge industry for Tarpon Springs actually started […]

We left Clearwater with the intention of staying in Tarpon Springs.  We had a really nice sail to the little river before you enter Tarpon Springs and got set for a small blow…( 30kts).  The little inlet was pretty full already so we didn’t have a lot of room plus the other 3 boats ( […]

We had been to Clearwater and were shown around by a dear family relative and had a great time.  On future trips we assumed we could not see much of Clearwater as before because we didn’t have a car……Wrong!  We went to the Clearwater City Marina and the Harbormaster, Mike, was so friendly but really […]

I wish I had some exotic excuse as to why I have not been blogging.  I can say a small part is not being use to using WordPress, especially when it comes to photo’s, but mainly I have just been lazy.  We are having a great trip and thoroughly enjoying Jonothon on board.  He has […]

  Egmont Key    

We woke up to fog this morning….. that means calm winds and warm temps.  It’s nice seeing the fog this morning since we don’t have to move today unless we want to.  The visual blanket isn’t always welcome, but this morning we have no agenda that makes fog a problem so we sit and enjoy the […]

We just entered the Tamapa Bay area from Siesta Key.  I decided to go out to the mouth of the bay to Egmont Key for the night….  The islands SE sand bar would totally protect us from the small rollers and wind left over from the fairly overcast and meager 6 knot of wind we had most of […]

The only thing we saw in the Florida Bay was crabpots.  The above picture is misleading because it was not this calm for about half of the trip.  We left this morning about 7:30 am.  We were downwind for the first 30 minutes and we had the wind on our nose and it was “rodeo” […]