M/V MAERIN

6612 We have had a busy week here in Ft. Lauderdale. We arrived on Sunday afternoon of the 21st, to a beautiful sunny day, temps in the 70’s! What a welcome respite from the cold and wind! I’m sure that everyone in south Florida who owns a boat had it out on the water that […]

Our hosting service, Westhost, had a problem with the fire suppression system in their data center, resulting in substantial damage to their server hardware that caused a major outage of their system. This incident occurred Sat, Feb. 20, and the outage extended until Tue. Feb. 22, for the server that hosts our blog and email […]

We arrived in Lauderdale on Sunday, the 21st. Between the server outage and our very busy social calendar here at the Yacht Club, I’ve fallen behind in posting. We have friends and relatives here, so we’ve been busy with visiting as well as catching up on some parts procurement and provisioning. Barb has relatives on […]

6562 We finally ripped ourselves free of “Velcro” Beach Sunday morning, headed south. The route was set for Lake Worth, the area around North Palm Beach, but while we were on the way, we opted to head up the St. Lucie River for Stuart. We’ve never been to Stuart, and have had some cruisers mention […]

After our launch outing, we returned to Cocoa to stay for a few days. We borrowed Susan’s car to do some re-provisioning, fill a dive tank, and do some other errands. We also enjoyed a night out with Sue & Jim at a local restaurant. Great meal, great company. The autopilot was returned to its […]

We were witness to the end of an era, the last scheduled night launch of the Shuttle. STS-130 Endeavour lifted off early this morning at 0414 hrs. Today’s launch was the reschedule of the launch that was supposed to take place Sunday morning, but was scrubbed due to weather. The flight was a “go” up […]

We left Vero this morning, headed back north to Cocoa. A multi-purpose trip! We’ll meet up again with Susan & Jim, hopefully talk them into carting us around again.  We also have the autopilot being delivered to Sue’s friend’s house in Cocoa Beach, I need some hardware to finish a project that I undoubtedly can […]