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 | 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 13, 2013 | boat upgrades, cruisers, live-aboards, v-berth mattressses
Out with the old mattresses. Aren’t dock carts great?Remember “The Princess and the Pea” childhood fable? The royal family secretly tested their son’s beloved’s pedigree by seeing if she noticed the pea inserted under her 20-high stack of... by GWTAdmin | Nov 29, 2013 | cranberry sauce, grits, live-aboards, Ortega Landing Marina, thanksgiving, turkey
Ice on the dock Thanksgiving morning at Ortega Landing Marina.”Don’t you think they have kosher turkeys in California?” Mom asked Gram, who hauled along a 17 pound turkey from Buffalo from California for Thanksgiving. Yeah, that was wayyyyy before...