Just a note to keep in touch and to confirm that my dedication to bringing you informative travel blogs is still my priority. When weeks pass without receiving blogs in your email, it is due to exploring new locations, and our traveling schedule. We are currently running up the east coast of the U.S. One Continue reading

Jan 8-13, 2025; Key West to Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Today’s run: 109 miles/6 hrs. ENROUTE: When shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico, shrimpers drag ‘tickler’ chains attached to their bows that stir up crustaceans borrowed in the seabed. Large extended nets, like the ones shown above, sweep through waters inches above the ocean Continue reading

Nov. 29-Jan 8, 2025: Naples to Key West; Today’s run: 115 miles/ travel hours 6.5 hours To revisit last season’s visit in Key West, (2024), featuring the region’s history of wrecking, early industries, Flagger’s Railroad, the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, and the unfortunate sinking of a local sailboat, click here: https://117gbl.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4143&action=edit To ensure that we Continue reading

Nov. 26-29, 2024: Pelican Bay to Naples: Today’s Run: 58 miles To view blogs in a larger format, click on ‘Reader’ (upper right corner). Homes on Sanibel Island Running 50 miles offshore, we ran down the Gulf keeping a sharp eye for crab pots. Sea conditions were very good and we made good time . Continue reading

Nov. 18-23, 2024; Cape Coral to Pelican Bay: 27 miles. En route; returning to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Traveling these long miles of twisting channels, needs your full attention. It helps to have 2 people at the helm; one to steer and the other with a set of binoculars to spot them and to confirm Continue reading

November 17th, 2024; River Forest to Cape Coral; Today’s run: 58 miles/travel time: 5hrs. When summer ended, we returned to River Forest Yachting Center to commission the boat for the last leg of the Great American Loop. When we arrived, the boat had been launched, but we stayed at the River Yacht Inn again until Continue reading

April 4, 2024, Stuart to Moore Haven; Today’s run: 70 miles. Click on ‘Reader’ (upper right corner), to read the posted blogs in a larger format. Fifteen miles south of Stuart, we entered the Okeechobee Waterway, (Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico). Lake Okeechobee* can be as shallow as 5 feet, and has the Continue reading

March 31, 2024; West End, Bahamas, to Stuart, Florida; Today’s run: 130 miles One hundred and thirty miles was the most miles we had travelled non-stop, but the weather and sea conditions were good, and we had a comfortable ride. A second ship runs south along the edge of the Gulf Stream, staying out of Continue reading

This page covers two destinations: March 26, 2024; Green Turtle Cay to Great Sale Cay: Today’s run: 67 miles; (indicated on the chart below by the red line). Great Sale Cay was a stopover anchorage to help breakup the next day’s 71- mile trip to West End, the staging point for the Bahamas -to-Florida crossing. Continue reading

March 17, 2024; Lynyard Cay to Green Turtle Cay; Today’s run: 30 miles Clicking on the pictures, allows the viewer to see them in a larger, and slideshow format without the captions. To navigate the shallow banks near Whale Cay, a channel leads boats east of the Cay into the open water of the Atlantic Continue reading