Friday, June 27, 2025 Day 5 The weather remained good, with winds predicted to be less than 6 kts. We started the engine at 559am but it wasn’t until 0604 that we cast off as I grabbed the black extension cord for the yellow dock line (the yellow electrical cord). I pushed a very big/long […]
Category Archives: Cruising Friends
June 25 & 26, 2022 We’ve been busy seeing and visiting with people, going places that I didn’t take the time to blog Saturday, so here is this weekend in one post. Saturday We woke a little before 8am, which is sleeping in for me, to a beautiful day. 68F, calm winds, and blue skies. […]
I know it’s been a long time since we posted but it’s never too late to start up. The last time you heard from us we were in Fort Lauderdale. Well from there with the help of ourgood friend Ken Blyth, we sailed to the Cape Fear River and then motored up the inter coastal […]
Thursday, April 2, Today we found out there is a bus, Gibson Bus, that will ake us to the Airport where the locals are waiting to welcome in their relatives arriving on the BahamasAir plane. There a DJ set up music leaving the huge speakers in the back of the pick up truck and got […]
Monday March 30 Miles Traveled, 4.0 nm We had decided to go back to Matthew Town to get Lorraine’s phone fixed and pick up some water and groceries. We had met a German couple Karl and Hanne on SV Silberwowe who needed to go to check in and invited to come with us on Changes. […]
Saturday, February 20 I woke early a little after 6am and read until time to listen to Chris Parker Weather. The wind is to increase later today and tomorrow and start decreasing on Monday with a North Swell for the next 24 hours developing. We are protected from the north swell (we hope) and have […]
Saturday, February 14 French side, St. Martin We started out the day listening to Chris Parker weather then Mike from Shrimpys Cruisers Net which starts at 730am channel 10. Phil likes to start his projects early so after a quick breakfast, we left at 930am to go to the Ace Hardware store. You dock at […]
Thursday, February 5, 2015 After breakfast, we quickly got the dinghy in the water and the outboard on the dinghy. It’s about a mile away to the Ferry dock and town. I want to do some grocery shopping and we are also walking to the natural Hot Springs with Bob and Jeanne. First thing though, […]
Sunday February 1 We have been med moored in Nelson’s Dock Yard for the last ten days. It has been one of our favorite stops with all the very large sailboats, which means over a 100 foot plus and the 3 day superyacht regatta. But it’s time to go so yesterday afternoon we got ready […]
January 11 Sunday We got together with Walkabout (Bob and Jeanne) and Vision Quest (Rick and Peggy) to walk to Fort Shirley. We got together at the PAYS (Portsmouth Association of Yacht Security) dock about 930am and walked north on the road. We passed a large resort development under construction funded by the Morocco and […]
Travels with the Dolsens 