Wednesday, 3/6/19 – Tarpon Springs Yacht Club, Tarpon Springs, Florida Woke up to a beautiful sunny day but frrrreeezing – the “feel-like” temperature in the 30’s (so much for sunny/warm Florida) and AGAIN Scout was on the bottom. Scout has been becoming more intimate with the bottom more times than we’d like to remember. We are not used to moorings that have “skinny” water that occasionally put Scout high and dry. In the words of Jimmy Buffet – Michael didn’t…
Saturday 3/2/19 – Crystal River, Florida Had a wonderful night at anchor last night. Up this morning at about 5:30 to see lots of shrimp boats going out and a beautiful sunrise. Pulled anchor about 7:30 and headed for Tarpon Springs. On the way out the river channel we had lots, probably 20 or more, of small fishing boats whizzing by us on both sides. It felt a little like the Daytona 500 racetrack. Again, we had very skinny water…
Wednesday, 2/27/19 – Sea Hag Marina, Steinhatchee to Cedar Key….. Woke up early to a beautiful morning. Topped off with fuel and headed out to Cedar Key. We left the fuel dock about 7:30 with Miss Adventure and MoWhisky following. Sea Loons left later in the morning and passed us heading straight to Crystal River. That’s what a smaller go-fast boat allows you to do. Apparently most Loopers don’t stop at Cedar Key as the guide books say there are…
Sea Hag Marina in Steinhatchee, Florida….. If you have ever had a computer crash you know how horrible it can be and what we have been going through the last few days. It’s as though your whole life disappears! You’re going along just fine then the screen starts acting a little funny then goes completely BLACK! You yell at it – Noooooo, Noooooo, Noooooooo!!! But it’s all gone! So for days Michael has been working on breathing some life back…
Our computer crashed so I haven’t been able to post for the last few days. Michael has worked very hard to get it to the point but I can’t get the photos to upload. Sorry for the long post Thursday, 2/20/19 Still in Apalachicola, Florida – Up this morning to pea soup fog again. Took the dogs for a walk and stopped by Café Con Leche for their delicious cinnamon buns. They bake them fresh each day so if you…
Pretty quiet couple of days In Apalachicola, Florida….. Tuesday, 2/19/19 – Overcast today but warm which allowed for a number of boat projects this morning. About noon we looked up to see two boats pulling up to the dock right behind us. Yeah, we have company and they are Loopers! Both boats are Mainships – a 350 and 430. We are a 400. After helping them tie up we all went to lunch together. Karen and Bob aboard the 430…
Saturday 2/16/19….Apalachicola, Florida. Woke up this morning to beautiful weather. One of the best weather days we’ve had so far! Michael saw a River Otter swim by the stern that headed across the channel towards two Bald Eagles perched on a tree stump. Beautiful! We have a six seat golf cart at our disposal to scout-about in. Appears that golf carts are a quite popular mode of transportation here and we see them everywhere. We took our cart for a scout-about…
Ok, so the part came and Michael, with the help of a generous FWYC club member, repaired the problem and “auto” is back ready to help Michael with the driving. Manager Tom came down to see us off. After lots of thank you’s and hugs we were off. Today is a long day to Pearl Bayou. We headed out across the Choctawhatchee Bay – the sun was shining and seas were flat. After about three hours on the open water…
Oops, still at Ft. Walton Yacht Club and will be for a few more days. On Thursday we took the boat just a few feet to use the yacht club’s pump out station – in non-nautical terms that would be getting all your sh#t off the boat. Anyway we discovered that the rudder reference indicator for the auto pilot had stopped working. Without it we have no auto pilot – not a good thing. Michael found the problem. Previously someone…
Monday and we’re still in Ft. Walton Beach at Ft. Walton Yacht Club. The club was closed today so it was pretty quiet. Although closed, club manager Tom brought us flowers. Said they were left over from an event and didn’t want them to go to waste – How nice is he??? It was pretty overcast and cold but the sun peeked out for just a little while late in the afternoon which prompted us to get Scout About down…
