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It is Monday morning and we are headed up the Caloosahachtee River (still learning to say and spell these Florida names). We are now in central Florida away from the big cities and people. The area around the canal is very rural. We were hoping to spend time in Labelle and see small town America,Continue reading “West to East – Crossing the Okeechobee Waterway”

On to Sweet Water Marina–You would think that once you leave Pelican Bay Fort Myers would be around the next island. Wrong!!! After following the marked channel for several hours we finally arrived in Fort Myers. We weren’t close enough to see the damage from Ian to most of the barrier islands in this area.Continue reading “Fort Myers & the Caloosahatchee River”

Thursday – Lumpy ride to St Pete Municipal–So Thursday we finally left Mr. Joe’s house and free dock on the rising tide. We were both a little nervous about traversing the canal and the “skinny” channel that lead to the main (well marked) channel. But as you can see we made it. (even Tim saidContinue reading “South down the Gulf Coast”

Sunday morning we left Gulfport on the rising tide on our way to St. Pete and a free dock. Tim & Jen French are friends from Tim’s Weta racing days. We are staying at Tim’s dads house on a canal in St. Pete. free of charge. Tim & Jen even gave us use of theirContinue reading “Saint Petersburg, FL”

Clearwater–We were dead tired when we arrived at our marina in Clearwater, but first things first. Got the hose out and washed all the salt off the boat. Then time for a short nap. We really didn’t feel like doing anything touristy but did eat at the local Frenchy’s restaurant. FYI: During our walk theContinue reading “Clearwater – Gulfport”

Apalachicola to Clearwater Beach. The Stats: Dock to Dock Travel time: 23:59 Distance Traveled: 203.9 miles Average Speed: 8.5 mph Maximum Speed: 9.8 mph Looking for a good weather window for the crossing is essential. Who wants to spend 23 hrs being battered by the wind/waves. The captain of Last Chance had heard from theContinue reading “THE CROSSING”

Wharf Marina We left Homeport Marina/Lulu’s after having lunch at Lulu’s. It wasn’t very far to the Wharf and we arrived in good time. We had a bit of a struggle getting into our slip as the wind had picked up. But Tim managed to enter our slip without too much trouble. We moved toContinue reading “The Handle of the Pan of Florida”

Intro to the Tenn-Tom – found a link that will save me a bunch of typing. https://www.ltlooper.org/tenn-tom Keeping track of your “plan” when you don’t really have a schedule, and everything is dependent on the weather and the locks and the tows you can’t control, leads to keeping track of life on a whiteboard, orContinue reading “The Tenn – Tom Waterway – or – Yeah!, the rivers are done”

What a difference a car makes as a mode of transportation. We drove to Plumtree, North Carolina in about 7 hours and covered about 428 miles. We drove thru all the towns that we had visited by boat on our way to Knoxville. Our boat trip from Florence to Knoxville and back took us 16Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2022”

We are still going downriver on the Tennessee. We didn’t stop to see much on the way, but this is what we accomplished. Terrace View Marina –> Chattanooga…we left at daybreak. We were going to stop at Shady Grove Marina, but decided to take the “risk” and motor all the way to Chattanooga. We traversedContinue reading “392m Across, 400′ Down”