Allen and I visited the Manatee Education Center in Fort Pierce, FL, yesterday and learned a great deal about this endangered species of...

Allen and I are anchored just outside the Ft. Pierce South bridge.  I finished tidying up the boat down below and Allen is touching up...

One of the highlights of this trip is visiting my Aunt Natalee and her husband Randy. We had not seen her in 20 years, and she looked the...

As Norma and I travel down the east coast, we are inspired and educated by the efforts many places go to to tell their true story. ...

St. Augustine has some of the most beautiful architecture for a small city, all because of multi-billionaire Henry Flagler. Flagler...

Losing the Propeller: The biggest issue was losing the propeller just as we were setting the anchor right near the Cumberland Island...

From the St. Johns River, we turned North along the ICW to visit Fernandina Beach, a town we were told was "quite walkable" (it is). We...

Only some great pictures of Mayport, Florida’s wonderful pelicans but no pictures out at sea outside Georgia because we were busy 24...

South Carolina is called "The Palmetto State." Palmetto trees line both sides of the ICW, something tropical that we did not see in...

In North Carolina, I became a killer on this ICW voyage—an exterminator of mostly flies. Each day I both swat at those pesty demons and...

There's a lot to do in Wilmington, and we tried to do it all. Allen wanted baby back ribs, so it was Hell's Kitchen Friday night followed...

B.O.A.T. Many of us boaters know the acronym for "break out another thousand." For a while now, Allen has been a little concerned that...

The landscape on the ICW along North Carolina is a sandy miracle of Nature. And oh, so fragile, so fragile, but which protects the...

Allen, as you may know, is a weather bug like most sailors who depend on knowing what the weather looks like today and if the wind and...

CREW: At Belhaven, we added a new crew member. Norma was astonished to find what she had been asking for—a stuffed pelican, one of the...

With our new autopilot in hand, on Sunday, November 5th, we left Coinjock Marina and headed to the Alligator River on Rattlesnake...

Reedville and Deltaville are two seaports along the Virginia Shore on the western side of the Chesapeake Bay. Reedville is very much a...

Finally after 6 weeks (or as Allen says, 40 days and 40 nights) at our Seattle home after our sailing trek up to Maine and back,...

Since we last posted. We have been to many great ports, including Booth Bay, where we were joined by our newest crew member, Shelly a...

SKITTLES- Skittles are a metaphor for all the colorful lobster pots that completely dominate Maine waters. Sailing is hard enough with...