Archive for December, 2008

Oh there’s no place like home….

….for the holidays, as the song goes! We arrived at Harbortown Marina (Cape Canaveral) shortly before noon, and proceeded to the fuel dock- in with the new and out with the old. (Pump out & fuel up!) Fuel is as cheap as we’ve seen it since we bought Maerin, so we took on 400 gallons. […]

New Smyrna Beach-Cocoa

We made a short run from Port Orange and Seven Seas Marina to New Smyrna Beach on Wed. The anchorage in New Smyrna Beach is a good spot, a short dink ride to the public landing at a delightful park and town. Not a whole lot there, but a nice town. We found a Yamaha […]

Daytona Beach

Maerin is clean, rested, maintenance is up to date, and she’s ready to cruise….

A week in St. Augustine

3326 We’ve stayed in St. Augustine a week now, our longest stay in one place since we left Middle River Oct. 31. It’s a lovely spot, we’ve enjoyed our activities, touring, the history and the daily routine activities of living aboard in the anchorage. Our daily routine involves some boat maintenance, dog maintenance, checking email, […]

St. Augustine

3209 3206 We made our departure from Jacksonville at 0640 to catch some of the outgoing current on the St. Johns. We ended up getting a pretty nice ride from the outgoing tide, despite the fact that we just caught the tail end of the change. Our normal 7-1/2 kt. cruise was boosted up to […]