After our overnight stay at Naples City Dock, we headed north back to our home port of Fort Myers Beach to spend New Years with family & friends. We had been away from our home port dock for 4 nights and we weren’t ready to head into Snook Bight just yet, so we stopped at …
Living Aboard
‘Tis the season, and with holiday cheer comes festive decorations, and as I’ve found, it’s no different when living on a boat. Some folks around here go all out with lights and decorations and they’re beautiful. Stringing lights on our trawler does pose a few problems. The big issue is available electric outlets. Luckily, we …
Last night, Randy and I and his father (John) and April were invited to catch up over dinner with Tim and Joan on Head Over Keels. We had a wonderful time with good friends, laughter and a couple bottles of wine. The party had just broke up not too long ago and I was in bed …
As the temperature gets cooler in Southwest Florida, our dock gets more social. Last Saturday evening, we had a dock party but before the dock party, we carved some pumpkins to get ready for Halloween. After the pumpkin carving, we got social with appetizers and oysters.
This weekend, Randy and I had my nephews stay overnight so we had 3 boys to keep busy this Sunday. Thankfully, we have a lot of options here on the beach. This morning, Corey and Jack had the opportunity to sail a sunfish. Our friend Dave has a small sunfish sailboat that he let us …
The past 2 weekends were spent renovating our main salon, so needless to say, we were ready for some R & R this weekend. Finally, we had a weekend without any plans and so Randy and I decided that whatever we would do, it would be aquatic. Saturday, we loaded up the car and headed …
Randy and I had a day without the boy, so we decided to head to New Pass beach, just the two of us. New Pass is generally too far for us when we have Corey since our dinghy can’t get on plane with all 3 of us. With 2 people it can plane perfectly and …
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 …
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 …
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, …