Portland-y

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When I was leaving Florida I had to figure out what to do with Crabby, the hermit crab who is now 150 years old in hermit crab years. For some insane reason, airlines don’t allow a hermit crab on a plane—if you have a 90 pound Lab, he can sit … Read More

Hurricane Season Haul-Out

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With nowhere to go for two days I was able to just hang on the boat, work, and… nope, that’s about it. No people came through, no going ashore, no swimming. Just quiet—except for the water being released from Lake Okeechobee. The morning that the railroad bridge opened up, the … Read More

Florida… Again.

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Storms blew in and blew out, and pretty soon it was time to make our run across the Gulf Stream back to Florida. A few hours later we were in Fort Lauderdale, and as always seems to happen—like a sign—when we return to the States, a squall popped up. We … Read More

Gun Cay

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Our string of nice weather kept up, so we kept moving. A Gulf Stream crossing weather window was opening up in just a few days, and we didn’t want to miss it. We crossed the Great Bahama Bank from Andros over to Gun Cay, just south of Bimini—a long, uneventful … Read More

Andros Island

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Once back in the Bahamas the weather turned in our favor and we got some calm following seas to continue on towards the States. From Staniel Cay we hopped across the Tongue of the Ocean to Andros Island. We weren’t sure if the weather was going to hold or not … Read More