Well, today was a fabulous and relaxing day. We started the day hanging out and playing games (chess and backgammon are among the current favorites, although once the Arbisi clan arrives, we'll be in for a serious Apples to Apples match). While Josh and I played, Scott finished his work on the generator, which of course is working now...need I say more? We walked into town and spent some time cruising through the 3rd Street South shops, 5th Ave shops and Tin City. After a long walk, we decided to head back to the boat and watch a movie. Josh chose Gladiator, so as you can imagine, that was a lot of fun to explain. This evening we went into the Naples Yacht Club, which just reopened their new building tonight. It is a beautiful club. ... read more

We started the day with a trip to Caya Costa beach to look for shells. As we were walking along the beach, we noticed something long and dark swimming close to shore. At first we thought it was a shark, until it poked it’s cute little nose out of the water- it was a manatee, and it swam to within 5 feet of Scott! We followed it around the beach for a while and then it finally got bored of us and swam away. Since we were having issues with the generator, we decided to head to Ft. Myers. We called and made arrangements for the broken part to be delivered to Naples, so within another day or two, the generator will be working properly. In the mean time, we hit Moss Marine and headed into ... read more

We awoke to the heat of the morning…the generator kicked off. Scott figured out what he thought was the problem, fixed it and we were headed about 4 hours south to the Crow’s Nest in Venice. We had a gorgeous sail south. It’s warm, but not too hot. We tied up at the Crows Nest and headed over to the shallow spot just to the east of the marina where we floated in the water for a few hours, cooling off. After dinner at the Crow’s Nest, we watched a movie in the cockpit of the boat. There were a ton of snook chasing bait fish under the dock, and the fish were all going nuts. A crab actually flew into the cockpit of the boat (and the next morning, we would find a shrimp had ... read more