Blogs from Vero Beach, Florida, United States, North America - page 3

Here we go, starting out our second winter of retirement on the boat! After leaving the boat in St.Marys Georgia last April, we spent the summer home in Guelph, enjoying life in our home, and our first summer with our new Granddaughter Ella. I was very lucky and worked all summer for Centennial Optical. Sharon was equally busy organizing things at our home, helping our daughter Dawn and her husband Paul move to a new home. October 24st we left Guelph to return to the boat. After spending the weekend in Chalotte North Carolina with friends Jenny and Ron Huibers, we arrived at the boat Monday October 27th. Our friends Mary and Christian Verlaque live in St.Marys and let us stay at their home while we got the boat ready. We didn’t know what to expect ... read more

We’ve been a little slow getting to this next blog, but we’ve certainly made some distance since the last one in Beaufort/Moorhead City. Our weather in Beaufort was cold rainy and windy, so unlike our last trip we didn’t really see much of Beaufort. We pretty much stayed on the boat, hopefully getting ready to go offshore. Finally on Saturday morning we lifted our anchor in the rain, and started down the intercoastal waterway, as the conditions to go offshore didn’t look good for the next week or so, and there was a tropical storm, building to a Hurricane (Hurricane Noel). Less than 40 miles down the Intercoastal waterway, we noticed several boats not moving, and blocking the channel in front. The waterway had silted in the usual channel and the coast guard had moved the ... read more