Author: Martin

It’s Wednesday, January 7th and the sun rises on a beautiful day at Fenandina Beach. We were planning to sail on to Jacksonville Beach today but in going over our route last night, Cindy realized that we would hit the St John’s...

Ok, so now it’s the next morning and we plan to shove off at 8:00am, about an hour before high tide. We fire up the engines early and let them warm up, getting good flow from both cooling outlets. Once again, Randy from the...

So the morning after our last aborted attempt to leave Jekyll Harbor we fired up our engines, checked that we had good cooling flow out of both (we did), called up to the marina office for a couple of the guys to help us cast...

So after several years of dreaming, planning and prep and three weeks of intense preparations to get the boat ready and stocked for our sojourn along the Florida Coast, we were finally ready to cast off our lines and sail away...

One of the main projects we needed to complete before we take off was to rename our boat. When we bought her from Jeremy and Christine, the previous owners, she was named La Paloma, Spanish for The Dove. Since she was ours now...