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Home is where we drop anchor

7/2/26 This year has been incredibly busy and stressful on land and so far we’ve only managed two other short trips out on our Happy Wife. We saw an opportunity to set sail and decided we had to take it. One thing we both don’t like is being tied to the dock for too long. Just setting out for a nearby trip is so worth it. Of course there are the simple comforts of being in the marina…our family, friends, the gym, my running and so on, but you quickly get settled into a rou

Ocean Air and Island Flair

It had been a long five months since we floated away on board our Happy Wife. Between overseas travels, holidays, a frigid winter and an over scheduled work life, we found ourselves tied to the dock for far too long. And so it was that we decided to grab a week or two and head out to the tiny islands right near Tampa that are very special to us. Bird Island and fantasy Island are about 2 hours away from home for us and they are the first locations we took Happy Wife to on o

Back Where We Belong…Floating again after 6 months on the hard!11/13/2025

Today is Shauns 61st birthday and had hoped to be anchored in Boca Grande by now…but…its a boat and this is what happened. What should have been a splash and go turned into us staying in the yard for a week, which was not planned. We went down a day a half before our return to the seas to clean Happy Wife and get everything ready for our trip back to Tampa As they came to fetch us with the boat lift, in our mad rush, we realized that we couldn’t lift our dinghy off the groun