Watch the FMB to Marathon VIDEO The day finally came when it was time to leave from Salty Sam’s Marina and Fort Myers Beach to start cruising. After a few last minute errands and details to take care of, we had our neighbor, Jeff, helps us off the dock. Our first stop was to top …
If you follow us on Facebook or Instagram, you might have noticed us working on boat projects and provisioning. That’s because Randy and I have been preparing to go long-term (longer than a week or weekend) cruising! We are so excited to finally be able to drop the dock lines for a while and get …
Last week, Randy and I had our first overnight guests aboard s/v Blue Turtle. Since it was Spring Break and no school, my sister and nephew Ryan joined us for a week of cruising and sailing. Getting a late afternoon start, we decided to try a new anchorage near the Sanibel Causeway. But first, we …
We’ve had a lot going on in the past month. One of the items on our (unending) to-do list was to rename the sailboat. In order to do this, we had to do a few things first. We had sent our vessel documentation in back in September and finally received it last month. Next, we’d …
Back in February, we finally go to take a real trip aboard our new sailboat. We’d been to Cayo Costa many times through the years and we actually stopped for 1 night in Pelican Bay when we brought the boat back from Punta Gorda. This time, we planned to stay several days and we’d hoped …
Now that we’ve settled in properly and I finally finished sewing the interior seat cushions, I thought I would snap a few photos (since I just cleaned) of the interior of our sailboat. I also took video as well, so see the end of this post for the video tour. Our sailboat is a 44′ …
We’re in full-on project mode here on Blue Turtle and one of the items on my list of to-do’s was to recover our interior boat cushions. And these cushions are no ordinary, simple flat boat cushions, these are bolstered and super thick with multiple zippers AND in “L” shapes as well. Talk about a project! Did I …
December was crazy and hectic with multiple family birthdays, a Jimmy Buffet Concert and a family trip to the Smokey Mountains for the Christmas holiday. With all of that behind us, Randy and I desperately needed some down time, so we decided to get off the dock and anchor out locally for New Years. We …
I’m a little late posting this but wanted to post the photos and write about our first experience under sail aboard s/v Blue Turtle. Back in November, Randy and I decided we needed to get off the dock and learn how to get the sails up on our new-to-us CSY. We invited our marina friend, …
It’s been roughly a little over a month of living aboard our new (to us) sailboat. So, I’ve decided to put together a few initial thoughts on the differences of living aboard a sailboat vs. a trawler. We spent 9 years living aboard Blue Turtle, our 40’ trawler and have recently bought and moved aboard …
FINALLY, the day came for Randy and I to bring our new sailboat home. We’d been staying at Randy’s dad’s home in Punta Gorda for the last few days to move some items aboard and get her ready for the trip home. We got to the dock that morning and removed all the covers from …
In our last post, I mentioned that we were under contract on a 1978 CSY 44′ Walk Over and we had our sea trial and survey. That was in August and the survey had to be postponed due to a line breaking that made it impossible to raise the mainsail. A rigger couldn’t be scheduled to …