(2015 America’s Great Loop Memoir) After our foggy adventure from Carrabelle, Fla. to Tarpon Springs, we had a good night’s sleep then hauled up the anchor the next day and made the short trip to Clearwater where we looked forward to a few days of rest in a marina. Clearwater, Fla. is where in 1982 … Read more

Saga of Skinny Ditches If you’ve cruised, you know narrow channels are marked with red and green buoys or numbered placards and you stay well inside them. They mark the limits of the dredged channel so you don’t run aground. On the West Coast water’s pretty deep most places. In the Gulf, people walk a … Read more

Looking for Nooks and Crannies When Seabear was finally cleaned, updated, provisioned, and tested, we moved out of the small furnished house we ‘d been renting in Fort Morgan Beach. We hauled boxes of books, clothes, extra cookware, and spare parts to the boat. Fortunately, there was a place for everything…NOT. I remember lifting up … Read more

Provisioning: Can’t Just Run to the Store When we left the boat in Anacortes, Washington in October of 2014, I left a few food items on board that could make the long trip (by truck) to Mobile in January, 2015—nothing that would interest a cockroach or an ant. Checking those food items in March, I … Read more

Getting the Boat Ready The year we made a decision to move onto the boat, we knew our previous three-month summer cruise in the Pacific Northwest would give us a good idea of what the boat needed. When we ended the trip, we sharpened our pencils and made a list. Then we shipped the boat … Read more