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Resting comfortably in Naples tonight at Hamilton Yacht Club….. your right, we don’t belong in this neck of the woods.  Dues are probably a million a year.  Laurie went in for a shower, the bathrooms were huge with travertene marble floors and granite counter tops. Our plan was to make Marco Island tonight but it […]

Good day today….. we did weather a storm but we saw it coming and anchored up in a protected cove for 2 hours while it passed.  We all slept listening to the rain on the boat.. hoping the lightning didn’t take out our electronics.  I actually unplugged a lot of my navigation tools so I’d […]

Jono and I have braved the wide ocean, crossed 320 miles of open water from Pensacola to Clearwater Florida.  50 hours not seeing land is all I want though, I’m not an ocean crosser, we just like seeing pretty water in warm places.  I’m no Christopher Columbus discovering new worlds.  I feel like we made […]

What a start to the latest “adventure”.   After pounding our way East for the first week (unfun sailing) Linda took a fall that required surgery on her left knee.  Luckily I was in port when it happened so I rented a car and made it home before she went in for the procedure. The […]

Jono and I left Madisonville La. 10AM on Monday the 7th on SYL for a Bahama run. We left late because our first leg was only 44 miles out of the Pontchartrain and barely into the Mississippi sound.  The trip was nice, we motored with little or no wind until our 6PM arrival at Rabbit […]

It’s turnaround time.  We started heavy overtime this week.  I arrive at 3AM and leave at 6PM, that’s the way it will be for the next 3 to 4 weeks. In my craft it’s feast or famine much like a sharecropper… make the money all at once or don’t make it at all. The refinery […]

Happy New Year!   Strange Christmas presents this year…..  My love got me a tricycle and I bought her a gun…  Now this tricycle is actually a souped up wheelchair with pedals.  I’ve enjoyed riding it, so far I’ve clocked about 20 miles. Linda’s present was fun for me too.  I shot it for the […]

We haven’t been posting much lately, as you can see….. Not much fun boating news to pass along, but that is about to change…. Our close friends know, but many that keep up only via our blog don’t know, we have plans to make a SYL Bahama cruise in 2016!   Our timing is regulated […]

Sailing is fun in Madisonville Louisiana, we love the sleepy – old school charm of the place.  Main street runs right along the river sporting massive oak trees reaching out with limbs the size of a mans body.  Moss filled trees provide shade for the grassy shore, the city maintains 30 amp hookups all along […]

This is one of my favorite sailing pictures.  It “puts me back there”  No matter where I sailed, this is what I saw most often…..  My “action center”.  This particular organization of equipment morphed over the years until I developed THE most efficient means of navigating “SYL !!”  This is how you sail a Seawind […]