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Hi folks, Firstly, we want to extend our thanks to Bob and Marie Austin, who invited us to their home to meet Pat and Patty, crew of Daydream from the PNW, who were cruising the Great Loop back in 2017. Their blog on this site. Thank you all! Since 2017, we have completed 5,300 miles and...

Hi folks, We are on an Out and Back Adventure down the Okeechobee Waterway. Then we dock at the Pink Shell Resort and Marina for six weeks before the Hontoon Hoot on this link: https://findpenguins.com/ancient-isles/ ... ll-hontoon If you request to ‘Follow’ you’ll get an email...

We're cruising down the Tenn Tom then home to Pensacola one-way. FindPenquins blog is here: https://findpenguins.com/ancient-isles/ ... tom-to-pns Many sections have no marirnas, cell or wifi, so give us a while to respond to questions or comments. Safe Travels! John and Eileen

Shorepower issues on AICW Loop Segment We trailered 700 miles to launch the boat at a new Loop segment start point on the Waccamaw River in South Carolina. We docked and connected shore power with all green LEDs lit but had no voltage despite trying two Smartcords, two 50A adapters and four...

Key West 2024 Hi Friends, We trailered down to Key West from PNS starting Jan 19, and plan to load up March 2 or so to trailer to the Hontoon Hoot, launching at Deland Ed Stone County Park as usual. Hope to see you there! Be sure to drop by if you’re in the Key West area, and you certainly...

TC255 SLING POSITION POINTS Hi Brats! Our next Adventure will (hopefully) be trailering up to Quinte West, Ontario, to launch at the start of the Trent-Severn waterway to the end 250 miles later at Port Severn. Then into Georgian Bay and up to the Northern Small Boat Channel, across Lake...

Taking your C-Dory to Bimini? We don’t advocate it but we're always being asked about marinas with transient slips and rig storage for taking a C-Dory to the Bahamas during the summer or other good weather window. Lake Park Harbor Marina on the AICW south of Boca Raton has that. It’s one...

Great Loop All FL Segment Adventure Greetings Brats! We decided to cruise both coasts of FL and the Keys (much of which we’ve previously explored) starting from Jacksonville, FL. We cruised a one-way Segment from there to Murrells Inlet, SC in 2019. The day before trailering over from...

Tom (Avidmagnum) and Joyce Schulke, (CD-25 C-Otter crew) and Hontoon Hoot Hosts Of The Decade, recently completed the Great American Loop as friends and crew on a 45 ft Californian bought by Lee and Jan Murray (the former crew of the CD-25 Tully-B, and frequent Hoot attendees ). Both...

A few things we’ve learned about storm/disaster preparation: We’ve been through 14 named hurricanes in the last 40 years together, the worst being #13 (Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall with a 34 foot vertical storm surge about 30 miles west of our home in Ocean Springs, MS with a 19 foot...

Here's our blog on doing the BC Inside Passage on the David B. We hope to utilize what we learned by trailering Cat O' Mine cross country to the San Juans area maybe in the summer of 2024. Hope this is helpful in your own planning if the PNW is something you have never experienced in...

This is the outline of the briefing we gave this morning at the Hontoon Hoot on our observations regarding C-Dorys doing the Great Loop in one way Segments. We hope it's helpful in your cruising plans! Averages: Median looper boat per AGLCA is 40-43 ft past 5 yrs. To be ‘comfortable for a...

NEBO is a free smartphone app that does automatic cruising logs…speed, times, dates etc. I bet we set the SOG record of the day at 62 MPH down I-75. We launched at the steep and deep Punta Rassa ramps. The N2K backbone dropped offline, so we had no charts or engine data or AIS but we had...

A 42 foot sailboat (mast stepped) didn’t take the turn into the lock and ended up pinned on the Mississippi River Chain of Rocks near St Louis. The crew was rescued by St Louis Fire/Rescue boats. This mishap is being discussed on the AGLCA forum (open to members only). Local news helo...

Greetings from the Finger Lakes/Western Erie Canal Adventure! We provisioned at Wegmans Supermarket; they are always crowded, but at least they always have Brie. I suspect Les and Kel have had the same experience at all the Wegmans in Alaska. I’m surprised at the widespread Verizon 5G...

Greetings wiring wizards, I again need some good free advice and always come here to get it. We’re getting ready to splash from the dry slip to the wet one and found the port sponson float switch inop. The manual bilge pump switch at the helm works, so it’s not the pump. No big deal, the...

Hi Friends! We plan for this year’s Adventure prior to the Hontoon Hoot to be a cruise from Punta Gorda down the SW FL coast to the keys, up to Elliott Key in Biscayne Bay, then back. We originally planned a loop using the Okeechobee waterway. After three scouting expeditions by plane and car...

2019 Ford F250 Integrated Trailer Brake Controller issues Hi Friends! I trailered the boat from the dry slip across base to add some air to the trailer tires for an upcoming trip in the cold and noticed that the manual ITBC lever would sometimes stop the rig at a stop light (at 2 MPH or so)...

Tis the Season to unmercifully critique captains who were in an untenable situation, so here’s one close by! Links to the reporting and video clip of the Captain (we encountered the crew on our daily walk): https://www.winknews.com/2020/12/09/sai ... co-island/ Our picture shows the 42 foot...

Hi Friends! We are planning a NW FL out and back from Pensacola to Biloxi to visit and hike on some of the spectacular sugar white sand barrier islands we love, including Horn Island. We (me, who needs knee replacement surgery) are now limited to walking 7 miles per day, rather than...