by Dana | Oct 31, 2020 | cross-country drive PNW to Florida, green cove springs marina, Jacksonville's NAS Mulberry Cove Marina, Ortega Landing Marina
Navy Bee gunner at NAS JAX.Jacksonville Florida still feels like home to us—a place where we made fast friends at friendly Ortega Landing Marina, where Wayne worked a couple contract jobs and I did my first two stints at West Marine. We caught up with... by GWTAdmin | Nov 16, 2014 | boat maintenance and repair, cruising preparation, green cove springs marina, Jacksonville FL, JAX Naval base Mulberry Cove Marina, pearson 365 sailboat
Green Cove Springs tractor and crew is ready before we areto make way for the next sailboat in the work yard.Part of cruising preparation often includes periodically hoisting the boat out of the water for maintenance, then, eventually returning it to its watery... by GWTAdmin | Nov 15, 2014 | cruising preparation, green cove springs marina, Jacksonville FL, JAX Naval base Mulberry Cove Marina, krazy lady, pearson 365 sailboat, sailing South Pacific
This is how boats are moved from land into the water.This is another sailboat at Green Cove Springs Marinaabout to splash.Less than a month and we begin our sail to the South Pacific!Later today, after a 6 month sailing hiatus, our boat is “splashing”... by GWTAdmin | Oct 27, 2014 | cruisers aground, cruising transitions, gluten free, green cove springs marina, Jacksonville FL, local food, marine communications, satellite phone, ssb radio, tapa this
Michael pours a generous mimosa and even leaves a carafe to do the job when he’s out of range.Cruiser aground, temporarily, in Jacksonville, Florida. We’re a month away from saying farewell to Five Points, our hurricane hole. Time was running out for being... by GWTAdmin | Aug 22, 2014 | bicycles and scooters, calamities, cruising transitions, galley wench tales, gluten free cooking, green cove springs marina, hurricane season, Jacksonville FL, on the hard, transportation, West Marine
My cast; which comes offnext week — at long last!If we were on the hook, this would not have happened (click here for Bucket List Crash Ouch for more on “this”).However, like the migratory snowbird flocks of many species (homo sapiens included), we... by GWTAdmin | Jul 8, 2014 | bucket list, calamities, cruising life, cruising transitions, florida wildlife, galley wench tales, green cove springs marina, Jacksonville FL, sailing mishaps, transportation, West Marine
Scooter in same style as mine, pilfered from the TaoTao website.My scooter’s blue and sports an additional storage compartmentadded behind the seat.“You know if you asked me what to do, you’d ignore me anyway. I still love you.”Don’t recall what prompted that...