This past week, we enrolled Corey in Edison Sailing School camp. It’s a week-long camp that allows young sailors the opportunity to learn to sail their very own boat. If you know Corey, then you know that he has basically perfected anything and everything there is to do on the water, so sailing school was …
Stand up paddleboarding (SUP) has been gaining popularity over the last few years. Randy and I own kayaks and we love exploring the backwaters in southwest Florida. I had been wanting to give SUP a try for a couple of years now. Our marina, Snook Bight, has recently started to sell and rent kayaks and …
This past weekend, we celebrated Randy’s birthday and Father’s Day with a weekend trip to Merwin Key. This is one of our favorite, nearby, anchorages since it only take 2 hours to get there. Merwin Key is a small island off of Pine Island and Sanibel Island and right near Picnic Island, a small oasis …
We’ve come a long way baby! One year ago (May 2012), Randy and I bought a 40′ DeFever Passagemaker and brought her home from Longboat Key. It was then that began our experiences in living aboard. We didn’t really know anything about caring for and maintaining a boat this size, but with the help of …
This past weekend, we headed to Cayo Costa State Park. You may have read about our last holiday trips to Cayo Costa on Memorial Day and Labor Day last year and over New Years. My parents were originally supposed to go on their trawler, Island Time, with my sister and nephews, however, my mother hasn’t …
The trawler blog has been quiet the last couple of weeks. We’ve been staying at Cape Coral Yacht Club for the last two weeks so we could have our canvas and isinglass redone. Blue Turtle’s previous canvas/isinglass had to be roughly 10 years old and in desperate need of attention. When we got her, the …
The marina has been clearing out the last few weeks. We’ve said ‘good byes’ to several of our new friends from Snook Bight as they make preparations to head to their northern homes for the summer. One thing is clear after tonight’s dock party (pulled pork and slaw, thanks to Mary Kay), we are beginning …
Thursday evening, a few of us from Snook Bight took our last cruise on the Indian Princess. Capt. Kevin, made an announcement on the paddlewheel cruise that the Indian Princess will soon be sent up to a lake in Maine. Kevin and a few others will be making the long journey with her up North. …
Not a whole lot happened this weekend since the weather forecast was for rain all weekend…we never did get any rain, but we did manage to have a great time. Friday evening, Randy’s dad came out to stay since they were working on a couple small projects on Saturday. Since his dad was down here, …
The other day, Randy was asked (and volunteered) to go up a sailboat mast in a bosun’s chair. For those not knowledgeable about sailing stuff (like me), a bosun’s chair is a harness-like chair that lifts a person up a mast in order to do work. Our friend, Tom, had a few things he needed …
This past weekend we had yet another opportunity to get off the dock. It would be a short trip, so we decided to stay close to Fort Myers Beach. We left Friday evening at around 5pm and headed for an anchorage off Sanibel Island outside Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. A couple of times, we’ve …
With our weekend on the mooring ball and the Wednesday dock party behind us, we were ready to get off the dock for an extended stay. This was Randy’s last weekend of freedom before starting a new job and the end of Corey’s spring break so Randy wanted to go to Cayo Costa. Unfortunately, I …