October 14 – 24, 2015 Almost three years and thousands of miles later, Claire and I returned to our home port. With Splendid Isolation docked on the Gulf Coast of Florida, we flew back west to celebrate our great friends’ wedding! Early morning November 6, 2012 was when we last stepped foot in Dana Point Harbor. […]
More from October 2015 through May 2016. After repairing the bow and painting the decks, things were looking good. A lot of metal was removed top-side. That way I could glass over unwanted holes, refinish worn out areas, and get a clean new surface for future metal. Splendid Isolation still sits in this condition, a […]
Well Hello there! Time to get this Ship’s Log up to date. Let’s take it back to October 2015 through May 2016. Claire and I were living aboard in Cortez, while working over in Longboat Key. This area holds a “snowbird” season of tourism basically from Thanksgiving until Cinco de Mayo. We both picked up […]
August/September, 2015 Claire and I said farewell to my Father. A great asset once again to our cruising lifestyle. He has helped us both out so much. Now time to clean out the boat, stow our cruising gear, and pull out all our tools. The rest of August and into September was extremely hot. Beautiful […]
August 8th, 2015 was a day of foul weather. Another front came through while my father and I sat at Marker One marina. Around 7:45 AM on the 9th we were back on the ICW southbound. The stretch gets narrow and shallow, as we pass Clearwater, Indian Rocks Beach, St. Pete, etc. A lot of […]
The morning of August 5th, my father and I left the dock in Tyson’s Harbor off Dog Island. 8:30AM and we were rounding the wide shoals off the North end of the island, making our way out into the Gulf of Mexico. It was an overcast morning, with the swells still at a constant 2 […]
August 4th, 2015 With the heavy weather clearing out, it was time for us to do the same. Pulling out of C-Quarter marina early that morning, we headed back down the Carrabelle River and out into St. George Sound. It’s about 5 miles to Dog Island. Not much is let out about this island. The […]
August 2nd, 2015 My father and I sailed up the St. George Sound and arrived in Carrabelle around 14:00. Docking at the legendary C-Quarter Marina. Upon our arrival we noticed there happened to be a huge King Mackeral fishing tournament going on, with a raffel and luncheon. Avoiding the initial crowd, we took a stroll […]
July 22, 2015 Derek slept aboard last night. I left the Volvo at his house. We were up with the sun and out on the Choctahatchee Bay by 7:45. Crossing the bay into the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, coming out into West Bay, into St. Andrew’s Bay, to Panama City. A 50 mile day, 10 hours […]
Some of us may live on a sailboat in hopes of actually getting stranded somewhere secluded. I look at Hogtown Bayou as my own “Walden’s Pond”. This majestic bayou is actually quite a large body of water. Tucked in the pine trees behind a bustling Hwy 98 and tourist filled 30A. Hogtown provides a vast […]
