Author: Martin

Well, after planning for just a little over five years to try the full-time live-aboard boating lifestyle, we’ve gone ahead and pulled the trigger on this adventure. Over the past year, we’ve sold one of our businesses, re-homed...

On our last trip to the boat, we opened the sliding glass door and were greeted with the acrid odor of rotten eggs. A frantic search for the source revealed that we had an overcharged lead acid battery that was boiling and...

Cindy and I arrived at Halyards Restaurant on the coastal Georgia resort island of St Simons at almost precisely the appointed hour, in spite of having been delayed a few minutes by confusion over the restaurant’s...

We’ve spent quite a bit of time getting to know our new neighbors at the Jekyll Harbor Marina. There are several folks who live aboard their boats and several of them have small dogs for pets. Now, Cindy and I have always been...

A couple of weeks ago, we headed to Jekyll Island for the Shrimp and Grits Festival, an annual event celebrating this native Georgia coastal crustacean. You must understand…Wild Georgia Shrimp© are a really big deal in the State...