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Finally Fun!: Building Skills

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. The Women Only week long class I took with 3 other women and a female Captain, in approximately 2006 in preparation for this lifestyle was very helpful. I learned to physically operate a trawler, docking it, turning it including check oil and fuel in the engine room. All of that was easy in hindsight. After all, that was NOT my boat I was aiming at a dock! I give full credit to YANG - that calm Type C handles this boat well, docking even backing in! The fat...

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Finally Fun!: February 2012

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. Friday, February 17, 2012. Idyllic Days in the Virgin Islands (US and BVIs). Jill and Hal, along with Cindy and Jim, relatives from Florida, joined us first for a week of cruising in the BVI’s. My cousin, Douglas and his wife, Margie, joined us from Tennessee the following week. Andy, Margie and my cousin, Douglas. Bar tenders see us coming and are READY! Pain Killers - the national drink of the BVI's. Douglas and Margie @ Soggy Dollar Bar. Foxy’s Tab...

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Finally Fun!: Our Inspiration

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. 8220;You are doing whatttttt? 8220;Buying a boat and living on it? 8220;Are you kidding me? You are going WHERE in that thing? Take one triple Type A personality and one Type at least a 'C 'personality, blend together in marriage and let the YING and YANG begin. One full tilt aimed at Adventure Go For It and the other more hesitant but game to always Try It. Throw in a decision to charter a boat - a Trawler - what IS a trawler? Why NOT live aboard a trawler?

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Finally Fun!: Great Guana Cay, Black Point Settlement & Staniel Cay

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. Friday, April 6, 2012. Great Guana Cay, Black Point Settlement and Staniel Cay. That line of waves is a large reef! Pulling out of Georgetown about 9:00 am on the 5th, we picked our way carefully through the reefs, one eye on reading the water, looking for dark patches that signal things that might be sticking up, tearing our hull and the other eye on the Chart Plotter and Depth Sounder. We finally got out into open water. Andy's 'done' with the lines.

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Finally Fun!: Back in the Bahamas

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. Sunday, April 1, 2012. Back in the Bahamas. Last time, we waited in Sapadillo Bay until the high tide.Shoulda, woulda. Beach off W. Planya Cay - Big cruising boat w guests set up the chairs. Amazing. Must be the fresh air. Sharon reeling, reeling. Andy taking over reeling one in. We arrived in Clarencetown, Long Island, Bahamas about 5:30 PM on Day Two. The only excitement today was catching THREE fish, as we trolled along the way! Subscribe to: Post Commen...

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Finally Fun!: March 2012

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. Friday, March 30, 2012. South Side Marina, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos. Youch The Turks and Caicos have changed their Customs and Immigration fees since we were here last year. Instead of $15 to enter the country it is now $50 and then $300 for a 'cruising permit' if you stay more than 7 days. They hit you again for another $50 upon checkout! Boaters sharing cooking the meal for all. This is the greatest marina EVER. Small, tucked in off the south ...

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Finally Fun!: January 2012

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. Friday, January 27, 2012. Arriving in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). Puerto Rico, the Spanish Virgins, the US Virgins and the British Virgin Islands. Chatting excitedly about the tapes being rewound in our heads - all those memories from the four years of chartering boats in these waters - we pointed out islands and shared ‘Remember When’ as we cruised from the BVIs to St. John, on the US Virgin Island side. My favorite snorkeling spot - The Indians, BV.

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SV Mirasol - The Boat

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January 3, 2010. Mast Height above water: 64' 9 (plus stuff - VHF and TV Antennas, wind instruments, Tri-color nav light). Displacement: 26,800 lbs. Engines: 2 x 40hp sail drive diesel. Helm Station: We added E120 Chart plotter and RayMic VHF remote. The E120 was the first big addition to Mirasol and also the first BIG hole Gregg had to cut in her. Needless to say, he did a lot of double checking on the layout of the hole before he started drilling! Electronics Panel: Here we've added the remote control ...

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Finally Fun!: Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas. 14 feet of water - so clear underway. Up at 6:00 on Wednesday, April 11, excited to be underway to Nassau, we had to piddle around for a couple of hours or more, waiting for the sun to rise higher in the sky so we could pick our way back out through the rocks and coral heads to deeper safer water. The waters here are beautiful because it is so shallow! Cruising through Nassau Harbor. Stuck n...

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Finally Fun!: Nassau to Miami

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Adventures Aboard the Motor Vessel Finally Fun. Friday, April 20, 2012. Dinner aboard Adventures while in Nassau. Departing Nassau on Tuesday the 17th, we cruised 5 hours through the deep deep Tongue of the Ocean to Frazier Hog Cay. We grabbed a mooring ball after attempting to anchor in the swift current and knowing the holding is considered 'poor' in this area because there is too much grass. We quickly settled in, getting ready for the long haul the next day. Leaving Nassau in our wake. We dropped the...