They say a picture is worth a 1000 words but with me you get both because I write just like I talk, nonstop. Here we are preparing to remove Capt. Ed’s ashes from the container. I will try to put a video of the actual service elsewhere on this site if I can figure […]
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I would give my kingdom for a decent WIFI connection. I apologize for the inability to post pictures. We are still in PC waiting out the weather. It was really blowing today. I decided to run some errands and the only method of transportation was by bus. I have not ridden a public bus, with
Last night we took a nostalgic trip back to 1955, but first let me catch up our mechanically minded readers on our work day. We got an early start about 0630 by starting on the fuel filters. I wanted fresh ones to cross the Gulf. According to the log onboard when we got the boat, they
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Pictures for this blog are posted a couple of days hence. Today was exciting and maybe tomorrow you will get to see some photos and even a video. Right now there is just text but it is exciting. Jan and I left our temporary home for the last week at Bluewater Bay. This was certainly
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Today Cbay had the honor of conducting final rites onboard for an old and dear friend. I have known Edward O. Distin since the mid-eighties. He was one of my instructors in my very first safe-boating course given by the United States Power Squadron. He convinced me to join the USPS and thus a friendship
A turkey a day… This morning we awoke early even though it is not a travel day. I asked Jan if she thought we would keep up this new early riser schedule even when the Loop was done and she doubts it. We decided to devote our time until lunch to catching up on a
Here are the photos you missed while the camera was being lost and found: This is the only photo taken on the infamous bad weather ride to Pensacola. It would have been more colorful if not for the driving rain. Viking Sportfisher parked next to is at Palafox Marina in Pensacola.
Still at Bluewater Bay Marina. Readers have asked two questions which I shall endeavor to answer. First, whatever happened to My Way the boat that blew a turbo in Mobile Bay and had to turn back? Second, will I tell the Kool Aid story? My Way is owned by Wayne and Francine who are French
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Today we experienced a bombing run with live bombs! More on this later. We arose in Palafox Marina in Pensacola. Jan eased us over to the fuel dock where we pumped out waste and settled our bill. But I will wager our readers want to know what happened in the day I skipped. So here
Wrote this entire blog entry at 4pm and lost it due to internet connection loss. I was sick because it was all so fresh in my mind at the time and I may never recapture the raw excitement but here goes: First there are no pictures only because it is impossible to take pictures when
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