We’ve been planning on repairing the wood rails on the deck and giving them a maintenance coat of varnish this winter, but somehow keep procrastinating. Part of the reason is that Southwest Florida is a paradise this time of year, and living on the beach seems to make us lazy…all we want to do is …
Blue Turtle Trawler
Looking for Blue Turtle Trawler content? In 2021, we sold our trawler and purchased a 44′ sailboat. All of the trawler content is still available on this blog. All posts prior to June 2021 are below (and following pages).
Last Saturday, February 2nd our marina, Snook Bight, hosted an Open House to celebrate the completion of the floating docks. It was a grand party with people coming from all over by boat, car and bikes. It was a festive day around the docks with food, drink, raffles and even a golf contest where folks …
So, with so much socializing and beach-going, there hasn’t been a whole lot of projects on the Blue Turtle (although there are many to do). Randy’s father, John Boy, came out a couple of weeks ago to help him remove one of our water tanks that had a crack in it. We had 2 100 …
Ok, so I’ve been waaaayy too busy with work to even think about boat projects to post here, but…I do have a new techie toy (yay!). I recently acquired a wide angle lens for my Canon SLR. I decided to get the Canon EF-S 10-22mm (I have a crop sensor camera) to broaden my viewable …
Last weekend was sort of eventful. Other than our day at Big Carlos Pass, we had 2 birthdays in our marina: Tom and Bill. Tom’s birthday was actually last Friday, January 11th and Bill’s was the following Friday…so, of course, we had to make it a weekend long event. A group of us decided to …
I’m a little behind on my posting because I’ve been insanely busy with work (which is a great thing!), so I’m actually posting photos from last weekend. Last Saturday, Randy, Corey and I decided to explore a little by dinghy. Randy took a look at the charts and saw that we aren’t that far from Big …
After having the last two weeks off, my holiday vacation time was coming to a close. With this weekend being my last weekend of vacation freedom, we decided to relax around the marina and take in the sites of Fort Myers Beach (FMB). The images above were actually taken on Friday, but they were too …
Our longest trip yet on Blue Turtle was after Christmas and during the New Year’s festivities. We were gone for a total of 6 days while anchoring at Cayo Costa and staying at Palm Island Marina to celebrate New Years with a bunch of friends. On board with us were Randy’s son, Corey and his …
With Christmas around the corner, Randy and I decided to get away from the marina for a quick weekend trip. This was also a great opportunity to test out our new windlass system that we had installed a couple weeks ago. We headed out Saturday morning, December 22nd, and planned to come home the morning …
I haven’t posted since we moved to Snook Bight a couple weeks ago. I’ve been crazy busy trying to wrap up some work projects before my vacation. We’ve settled into our new marina nicely and have really enjoyed it so far. We’ve spent several evenings at the beach across the street taking in the sunsets. …
As you saw in my last post about live aboard marinas in southwest Florida, Randy and I were preparing to move from Cape Coral Yacht Basin to Snook Bight Marina. On Friday, we said our goodbyes in Cape Coral and pulled up our lines and headed to Snook Bight marina on Fort Myers Beach. We …
PLEASE NOTE: This post is intended as a guide to Southwest Florida marinas that accept full-time live aboards. This post focuses on marinas from Port Charlotte and south on the West coast of Florida. We do not post rates and availability since they change all the time. For current slip rates and availability, please contact the …