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
Secrets of the Ten Thousand Islands
5/1/25 After our generator debacle, we felt like we had a new lease on life to leave Marco Island Rose Marina is always outstanding with...
Charting our course
4/15/25 I think a good analogy for leaving on a long trip as we are, is to picture popping a champagne cork, along with the cheer! It is...
HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY WIFE!
12/30/2024 Goodbye 2024 and hello brand new 2025!! After a tumultuous end to 2024 due to the two back to back hurricanes (in which we...
4 months out of the water and 2 major hurricanes later…..
10/22/24 It took a lot of thought and planning to leave our beautiful Happy Wife out on the hard in the middle of the state for this...
Ten Thousand Islands - Our second home!
After spending the night in Marco Island and refueling etc, we left early and anchored at our beloved Tiger Key in the Ten Thousand...