Dinghy driving practice went well. Student 1 (Tammy) just needed a refresher course from having been land locked so long. She failed backing but can go forward in a fairly controlled manner. Backing was never her thing anyway and every effort is given to locating a spot on a dingy dock that doesn’t require significant […]
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A Madden on the Indy Racetrack. Beware!
Downtown St. Pete is gearing up for the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg race this weekend and my friend, Maeghan Madden, has already tested tire traction on the popular waterfront stretch of track. Meaghan, her boyfriend, Colton Roberts, and her mom, Laura, visited on Monday all the way from Blanchard, Oklahoma!! Ok, they were on […]
Fishin’ From The Dock
“Can I go fishing?” We hear this request daily. Lily would like to catch something, sure, but a fish-less stretch is not an entire loss. She likes casting and casting for 30 minutes is, by itself, sport enough. Occasionally she gets the plastic worm to sail where she wants it and a minute of success […]
Bowls of Boatmeal
Tristan Jones is a well known among sailors for his fascinating sea stories. He claimed to have logged more than 450,000 nautical miles on various boats. Biographers and readers have argued a bit over this number but I think it’s more controversial that we don’t have an accurate count of how many bowls of burgoo […]
Boat rules
Once you decide to live on a boat, tons of thought goes into What BOAT? We’ve had three sailboats and so we’ve made this difficult decision three times. It probably shouldn’t be so difficult. In the end, it is how you live and not what you live on that makes for a happy/unhappy voyage. […]
Anchor Management
Randall is doing some anchor management. We have three on the boat – 2 CQRs and a Danforth. He is going to get a new 50 pound Bruce as the main anchor but is prepping one of the CQRs to use on the stern. He was trying to decide which of the remaining anchors to […]
The Lindsey’s
We spend the weekend catching up with the Lindsey’s – Scott, Sheri, Owen and Ana. We and the Lindsey’s shared some fun times back at Watergate Marina in Kemah. They watched us pull away for our first trip on Capricious in 2009. Scott also came and crewed for us upon our return trip to Kemah. […]
FoxTrot Floats Again
“Did you do any thru-hull work,” the travel lift operator called, sitting patiently at the controls of the travel lift. “Uh, yeah. A lot,” was Randall’s answer as we scrambled below. “I’ll give you a few minutes,” he said to our backs. Thank goodness. I hate to ask Randall to commandeer the travel lift. Lift […]
At the Beach
Lily seems to like homeschooling as long as PE involves a trip to the beach. Conveniently, it’s our last class for the day and we both happily abandon the first grade struggle with literacy. It is February so only a few bodies dot the water. Most are content with the second hand information going around: […]
Seafood Festival
>They all want to be Amber Leigh when they grow up. Amber Leigh Band rocking the Marathon Seafood festival. She plays violin & mandolin and performed several original songs. That’s Amber’s Dad on guitar.