by GWTAdmin | Dec 24, 2013 | blissful bottoms, boat maintenance and repair, cruising, hull cleaning, Jacksonville FL, live-aboards, Ortega Landing Marina
Ollie of Blissful Bottoms unloads his dive tank from the dock cart. “Boys didn’t look like that when I was growing up!” Diane sighed, gazing in unabashedly at the bronze, built and shirtless “Blissful Bottoms” “boys,” Ortega Landing Marina regulars. No, this... by GWTAdmin | Dec 21, 2013 | boot key marina marathon florida, cruising, icw, intracoastal waterway
They’re hard to see, but the speck in the lower rightis one of the pot floats we were slaloming.“Watch out! There’s a crab pot! And another! And another! And…”Left. Right. Left. Right. Left. Right….Our sailboat slalomed through... by GWTAdmin | Dec 6, 2013 | bridge lifts, cruising, icw, intracoastal waterway, Jacksonville FL, Ortega Landing Marina, st john's river
Despite Wayne’s persistent housekeeping, the spiders rebuiltFrosty beauty aside, thanks to their poor timing,a Viking funeral was in order.We awoke to a clear blue sky our last morning at Ortega Landing Marina. But Mother Nature decided a more challenging... by GWTAdmin | Nov 11, 2013 | cast iron skillet, cruising, cruising planning, dinghy, Jacksonville FL, Ortega Landing Marina, West Marine
Journey feels naked in the cold morning with her sailcovers,bimini and dodger off in Ortega Landing Marina.Hooray and oh-my-gosh! Only 18 days until we set sail, weather windows permitting. Our target date continues to be Dec 1st, 2013.Meanwhile, our lazarettes... by GWTAdmin | Sep 15, 2013 | bahamas, cruising, Jacksonville, liveaboard, living aboard, marina, pearson 365 sailboat
Incommunicado, a Pearson 365 in the Willis’ back yard — for now.Actually, in our experience, Allen and Michelle Willis’ boat name is a misnomer, at least when they’re in town. Another fellow Pearson 365 owner (click here to read about another awesome... by GWTAdmin | Aug 31, 2013 | an embarrassment of mangoes, ann vanderhoof, couchsurfing, cruising, dominica, Great Inagua, meeting locals, mofongo, rum, rum punch, saba, sea moss, spice necklace, st. lucia
“White foods” (sugar, flour and potatoes, most notably) are nowdisappearing from my diet in an effort to return to feelingattractive wearing my “itsy bitsy teeny weenie … bikini.”Contrary to best-selling author Ann Vanderhoof of “An Embarassment of Mangoes: A...