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 | Jun 19, 2014 | boat maintenance, cruising life, cruising transitions, dirt dwellers, Jacksonville FL, JAX Naval base Mulberry Cove Marina, live-aboards, Ortega Landing Marina, West Marine
Moving vehicle? Yup. Straight from the Heart’s gracious loan of their minienabled the move of a good portion of our Spartan possessions.Dirt Dweller. Land Pig. These colorful decriptions cruisers and live-aboards* might use to derisively describe what... by GWTAdmin | Jun 10, 2014 | cruising life cruising destinations, dirt dwellers, docking, drydocking, free docks, Jacksonville FL, JAX Naval base Mulberry Cove Marina, marina, movies, pearson 365 sailboat
One of our boat’s guards here.After our unwelcome intruder aboard (click here to read about that), we needed to decide where to go. Not because of the intruder, but because we needed a place to hang out long enough to get our temporary “dirt... by GWTAdmin | Jun 8, 2014 | cruising destinations, explorer charts, flamingo cay jumentos bahamas, JAX Naval base Mulberry Cove Marina, navigating, passage making
Navionics iPhone $16.99 applicationimage of Bahamas Flamingo Cay, Jumentos. For a mere $16.99 on my iPhone, or, if I had one, an iPad, Navionic’s app rocks… mostly. Even in the Bahamas remote Jumento island of Flamingo Cay, I can view a pretty... by GWTAdmin | May 30, 2014 | cruising destinations, cruising safety, cruising transitions, free docks, Jacksonville FL, JAX Naval base Mulberry Cove Marina, liveaboard
This is where the intruder on our boat was standing.I was in between him and Wayne, whose legsyou can see in our v-berth bedroom.“Aren’t you afraid of pirates?”This is one of the top three questions cruiser-curious folks ask, along withAren’t you afraid of storms?How...