Our beautiful Liward is for sale
A truly unique opportunity! We are selling our beautiful 1985 Hans Christian 48T. "Liward" has been imported to French Polynesia with the duty paid, so she can sail in these beau...
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Welcome to our new website. Sadly, our previous website of 24 years, getjealous.com/liward, is no longer supported and we can’t make new updates. So, everything that we posted in the past and all new updates will be found here:
Lili & Steve
About the Voyage
We want to continue recording the memories, because we sure can’t remember them all! And this seems to be a nice way to keep friends and family updated.
We are Lili and Steve with a dream to sail the world that started when Steve watched the Endless Summer surfing movie in the 1960s. He quickly realized that traveling on a sailboat to different parts of the world, looking for waves, would be awesome.
We met in college and Lili was an engineer with NASA and Steve was an engineer with Shell Oil. In 1981 we purchased a small sailboat to learn, and then in 1985 we purchased our Hans Christian 48 “Liward”, to live aboard, with plans to go sailing full time. We’ve been retired and cruising since 2003. We hope you enjoy viewing our updates. And if you like please leave a message.
25 YearsCalled Houston, TX Home
NASALili's Career Before Sailing
ShellSteve's Career Before Sailing
Since 2003Retired and Cruising Full Time
Twenty years at sea
The Logbook
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42Three Weeks in New Zealand - An Awesome Place
In November 2024, we returned Liward to her normal spot in the marina in Tahiti and hopped on an easy 5 hour flight to New Zealand. We spent 3+ weeks exploring the north and south...
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57Our 2024 Sailing Season in French Polynesia
Our 2024 sailing season lasted from May through November. After a few weeks of boat work in the marina in **Tahit** i, we made our first stop on the island of **Moorea** just 20 +...
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36Our 2023 Season on Liward in French Polynesia
Our 2023 Season was from the beginning of May through late November. We spent 5 weeks in Marina Taina doing some big projects including varnish. Then made the short sail to Moorea,...
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40Our 2022 Season in French Polynesia
In 2022, we managed to have our resident cards renewed, so we can once again stay in Polynesia as long as we like. This years season was from May through November. We did a major...
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292021 COVID means only 90 days in Polynesia
In 2021 Polynesia was still dealing with COVID. So flights were limited and visitors were restricted. Plus we were not able to renew our resident cards and new VISAs were not bei...
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302020 COVID Challenges
COVID had a profound affect on the whole world. For us, we just had to change our normal schedule of splitting time equally between Polynesia and Florida. Instead, we spent Janua...
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282019 - French Polynesia - Plans Change Like The Wind!!!
Our 2019 sailing season was planned for April thru October. The schedule included a haul out for new bottom paint, sailing to the Cooks Islands for a new custom's permit for the b...
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452018 – Liward's Season in French Polynesia - Moorea, Tikehau, Fakarave, Apataki, Rangiroa
In 2018, we had some major projects to finish on Liward so we spent a lot of time in Marina Taina in Tahiti. Once those projects were completed, it was time to explore the beauti...
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29Easter Island – Rapa Nui April 2018
We love everything Polynesian so why not visit Easter Island which is the southeast corner of the Polynesian Triangle! By plane that is! So we decided to take a 787 and visit Rap...
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13Time in the USA September 2017 thru March 2018
Thought we'd put up a few pictures to cover our time in the USA September 2017 thru March 2018. It helps us remember what we've been up to!
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56May - September 2017 French Polynesia
We are way behind on our updates so this is a really long one. It covers our 2017 sailing season in French Polynesia. We completed a haul out in Tahiti, spent a few days relaxing...
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63April 2017 - Where Are We? Where Have We Been? High and Dry!!!
This update covers a lot of ground, from late July 2016 to April 2017. We apologize for being so behind! We keep up the website to share our experiences with friends and family, ...
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57Rarotonga and Back-1200 miles to get a stamp
We've done a lot of sailing so it's time for an update. In April, May, and June we visited some of our favorite islands in French Polynesia: Moorea, Huahine, Bora Bora and Raiatea...
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18Back in Tahiti
After 5 nice months in Florida we flew back to Liward in mid March. She was sitting in Marina Taina, Tahiti right where we left her and looked good. We've spent 4 weeks doing som...
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38Island Hopping Polynesia– Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora, and Maupiti
This update covers July and August with 5 weeks spent in Huahine, 4 days in Raiatea, 3 days in Bora Bora and 10 days in Maupiti.
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39Fakarava - Tahanea - And Back to Tahiti
Our last update covered our first week in Fakarava in the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia. We spent two more weeks visiting four different anchorages in this beautiful atoll. ...
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30Where in the Fakarava are we??? – Liward back to Sailing! April-May 2015
We flew back to Tahiti on April 9 after 6 fun months in Florida. We found Liward looking really good in Marina Taina. Heifara took excellent care of her. We had a few projects to c...
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29Catching Up – September in Tahiti and flying back to Florida
We thought we'd post an update to catch up on where we are. This one will cover hauling out Liward, some more fun in Tahiti and time back in Florida. So we want to wish everyone ...
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47Three Island Gems - Raiatea, Tahaa, and Bora Bora
We've spent the last 6 weeks visiting the islands of Raiatea, Tahaa, and Bora Bora. These islands are very close to each other which makes for easy sailing. A picture, taken fr...
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66Heiva in Huahine
We have spent the last 2 weeks enjoying the Heiva in Huahine. Huahine is an island about 90 miles from Tahiti. The population is about 6000 and it is really unspoiled. Heiva is ...
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31Moorea and Huahine – We are never going to leave!
This update will cover our time in Moorea and Huahine. Two islands that are similar but also different. We also have a new plan. French Polynesia has just changed the law which ...
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44Liward Sails On – Tahiti and Moorea
We spent 7 great months in Florida while we qualified for a new long stay French Polynesia Visa. After much paperwork we were approved! So in April we returned to Liward where sh...
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35Sailing West ----Flying East
Our last update covered the Tuamotus and had us arriving in Moorea. Well, we've covered a lot of miles since then! Right now we are in Florida. But we made that trip by plane. ...
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41Tuamotus Islands French Polynesia - the islands of Kauehi and Apatak
We have internet once again so it's time for an update. This update covers the Tuamotu Islands. These islands are very different from the Marquesas because they are coral atolls. W...
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22Marquesas – Five Beautiful Islands
We've really had a great time visiting five islands in the Marquesas over the last four weeks. Fatu HIva, Hiva Oa, Tuahata, Oa Pou, and Nuka Hiva. Now that's a mouthful. We've seen...
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28Across the Pacific Ocean - 3000 Nautical Miles!
We did it! We have crossed the pacific. This update will cover our passage and our arrival in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. This has been a dream of ours for a very lo...
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29Island Hopping in the Galapagos
We've spent the last 7 weeks visiting four islands in the Galapagos. We are convinced that this is truly a magical place where the animal life "owns the place"! The humans do their...
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21Wreck Bay, San Cristobol ----Just like National Geographic
We are in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador! Truly amazing and very exciting for us. We remember studying these islands in elementary school, seeing picture in the National Geograph...
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25Liward is in the Pacific Ocean!
Yes Liward has transited the Panama Canal and is now floating in the Pacific. Wonderful friends Tom and Sue, and Kari and Jerry flew in to experience the Canal with us and be our l...
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7Ocean to Ocean - Liward is Ready!!!!
**Finally!!!**.....we are ready to head through the Panama Canal! We have all the equipment back on the boat, we've been out for a test sail, and we are stocked up with enough groc...
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34New Surfboard for an Old Surfer
Well, we are still in the same place as we were for the last website update, but we have been busy! Big news is that Steve had a new surfboard made here in Panama which is an exact...
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25Still Pecking Away! Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama
Again, we have let way too much time lapse between website updates. We really appreciate you continuing to check in. These last few months have been happy and sad. We'll try to giv...
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22Six Months and Where Have We Been?
It's been six months since we've made an update to the website so we are way overdue. This update won't be filled with beautiful pictures of clear water and palm tree islands but y...
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45Zipping thru Panama
Hello all, and so sorry that this update was so long in coming! This entry covers May thru July so three months worth of fun! We are still in Panama on the Caribbean side, and cont...
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25Uno Mas Tiempo----Bocas del Toro----One More Time
On January 7, we arrived in Bocas del Toro after a great two night sail from the San Blas Islands. Bocas del Toro is a group of eight major islands located on the Caribbean side of...
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16Best Wishes for 2011!
We are having some horrible weather in the San Blas islands of Panama! So we are taking advantage of being stuck inside the boat and making a quick update to the website. It's a ch...
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42Panama Road Trip
We've spent the last 18 months exploring the Caribbean side of beautiful Panama. This country is very diverse and there's lots to see. So after installing the new generator in Augu...
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27Is Your Generator Running ----YES!!!!
Here's a quick update before we leave the boat for a three week driving trip to explore Panama. When we last made an update we were in the island of Providencia, Colombia. We spent...
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32Isla Providencia…….Caribbean? or Colombian?....Both!!
We've drug ourselves away from the beautiful islands of Kuna Yala, San Blas in Panama and have sailed to the island of Providencia. Actually, our 90 day immigration ran out in Pana...
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30San Blas And island for every day of the year
In March, we returned to the San Blas Islands of Panama. The San Blas are on the Caribbean side of Panama and home to the Kuna Indians. These people have preserved their culture an...
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27Hocas Bocas -- Bocas del Toro
We've spent the last four weeks having a great time in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Bocas is only about 30 miles from the Costa Rican border on the Caribbean side. It's a super laid bac...
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18Bocas Bound - Back on the Road!
We've got Liward back in the water and she is ready to go! We are really looking forward to getting back to sailing again. We plan to head to Bocas del Toro which is an overnight s...
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42Long Time Gone!!!
**After some difficulty, we finally have an update with photos! Hope you enjoy it! Sorry to those who visited while we were having problems. ** Yes, it's been way too long sinc...
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29Stuck in Paradise - Kuna Yala Panama
Time flies when you are having fun! We've spent 3 months in Kuna Yala and have decided we could spend a lot more time! This is a great place for us. Beautiful islands, a friendly c...
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41Kuna Yala - the National Geographic Tour
We sailed from Cartagena, Colombia on February 4 after a wonderful 7 weeks there. Our first stop was the beautiful Rosario Islands which are just 24 miles away, but a whole other ...
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35Curacao to Cartagena! Liward in South America
This update will cover a lot of ground, about 500 miles worth. This, in Liward sailing miles, is a long time. We started December in the Dutch island of Curacao. Our plan was for a...
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28Bonaire - Bon Bini
Bon Bini - that's Welcome! in the creole Papiamentu dialect of Bonaire. We made the 418 nm sail from Vieques Puerto Rico to Bonaire and arrived in 78 hours. We've spent a week in B...
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19Que Pasa......the Spanish Virgin Islands!
Que Pasa ………the Spanish Virgins After a few weeks of putting the boat back together, surfing, and enjoying new friends we finally said "adios" to the big island of Puerto Rico. We ...
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24Where in the Fajardo have we been!
It's been over three months since we've updated the website, so we have a lot of catching up to do! In May we were in Sint Marteen with a plan to head west to Puerto Rico to take o...
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40Barbuda, Nevis and Saba - Back to Nature
Since we will be leaving the eastern Caribbean soon, we wanted to visit some of the spots we've missed. During the last two years we've sailed by the islands of Barbuda, Nevis, and...
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25Buckets to Classic - Its Race Time
We`ve been bit by the racing bug! We raced a little in 2007 and wanted to experience the racing thrill again. And of course the parties aren`t bad either! This is a completely d...
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26Anegada Da Vida!
We had a nice 13 hour overnight sail from St.Barths to Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. This island is very different than the other islands in the Caribbean since it is onl...
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33St. Barths Are we ever leaving?
We sailed into St.Barths before Christmas and we are still here! Named after Columbus's brother, the Isle de St. Barthelemy is part of the French West Indies, in the northeastern c...
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45St. Lucia - Another Trip Around the Sun!
This update is definitely very late in coming. We had to go through a whole bunch of photos to select the ones to include. And we had trouble, so there are alot! On November 26 ...
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40Barbados - Coming and Going!
As always happens, our boatyard work in Grenada took longer than we planned. So we got the boat back in the water and had to immediately sail east to Barbados. Of course the cond...
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17Grenada - 3000 mile checkup!
We are spending this hurricane season in Grenada again this year. We have been here for 2 months and we`ve been busy! Two tropical storms have threatened, but did not cause any p...
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25Island Hopping - Bequia, Mustique, Carriacou, and Grenada
We left St. Lucia and did a little island hopping to Bequia, Mustique, Carriacou, and wound up in Grenada. All these islands are within a 9 hour sail of each other. Bequia has a pr...
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23Don't Stop the Carnival - St. Lucia!
We have fallen in love with St. Lucia! This island has all the right ingredients: several good protected anchorages, great music, colorful culture, hiking trails, rainforests, nice...
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33Dominica - Land of Waterfalls and Rainforests
When Columbus discovered Dominica he described it to Queen Isabella by crumpling a piece of paper to show its terrain. It has valleys, gorges, and volcanic peaks that are covered i...
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20Bye Antigua, Bon Jour the Saintes Bon Appetite!
Its past time for a new update! We ended up staying in Antigua for over 5 weeks. We tied up Liward in a marina for a week so Steve could make a quick trip back to Florida. His fat...
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28Antigua Classic Regatta
We sailed from St. Barths to Antigua just in time for the 20th anniversary Classic Yacht Regatta. What an event! Over 60 classic traditional style yachts all in one place. And we w...
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18St. Barth's Bucket Regatta
Every year St. Barths holds the Bucket Regatta, a race for sailing yachts over 100 feet in length. So we planned to be there! It was three great days of beautiful boats. And we we...
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33Anguilla - Tunes on the Dunes
Anguilla was on our list of places to visit, but when we heard that Jimmy Buffett was doing a charity concert there we set a course! The concert was held at the Dune Preserve with ...
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31Live from the BVI!
We didn`t get to spend much time in the Virgin Islands on our trip south because hurricane season was approaching. But we`ve returned. Our friends Kari and Jerry flew in to meet us...
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32Surfs Up!!!! Updated with the British Virgin Islands
It`s time to do an entry totally dedicated to surfing. So for you surf hounds, have at it. And if you are not interested in surfing at all, just skip this one! After two more aweso...
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24Stoked in St. Barths
We are back on the move after a quick haul-out, fast trip by air to the U.S./Argentina/Uruguay,and a quiet hurricane season We had a beautiful 3 day and night sail north to St. Bar...
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24Uruguay and Argentina
Every four years the sailing fraternity, Brotherhood of the Coast(BOC), gathers for a World Zafarancho. This year it was in Argentina and Uruguay. We really enjoyed catching up wit...
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2Fish out of Water!
We are taking a little intermission and heading back to the U.S. for a few days. We`ll feel like fish out of water since we`ve been gone 6 months. How about driving on the right si...
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7Barbados or Bust
Steve has been surfing in Barbados for over 30 years, and has always dreamed of visiting in his own boat. So here we are. We had a great sail from Tobago and tied up in a really ni...
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21Yo Ho Ho Tobago!!!
Weve spent a week in Tobago, the furthest south and east that weve been so far. Tobago is one of the more out of the way Caribbean islands, so we wanted to check it out. We had a...
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13Celebrate! Tobago Cays
Currently we are anchored in the beautiful Tobago Cays which are part of a group of islands called the Grenadines. These islands are completely deserted so we brought everything we...
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16Still in Grenada
We`ve decided to stay here in the Grenada area for hurricanse season and purchased an additional rider from our insurance company to allow us to do so. We`ve taken a few weeks to d...
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10Take us to the Carnival!
Weve returned to Grenada for our first Carnival and our first visitors. Carnival is 5 days of non-stop fun with a Calypso show, Panarama steel drum competition, Soca contest, Jouv...
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11Can you Carriacou?
We took a little sail about 40 miles north of Grenada to a little island called Carriacou(pronounced Carry-A-Coo). We wanted to see the wooden boat regatta and participate in the y...
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12Island of the Spices
We are now in Grenada and only 90 miles from Trinidad. We feel comfortable that if anything tropical pop`s up, we can get to Trinidad quickly, as required by our insurance, . Grena...
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12Liward meets the Windwards!
Now we`ve arrived in Martinique which is part of the Windward Islands. We are getting further south and within short striking distance of Trinidad which is required for our insuran...
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1025 Years Later!
Another unplanned stop and we are anchored off the village of Deshaies on the island of Guadeloupe. This just happens to be where we came on our honeymoon 25 years ago, making a su...
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13Islands that Touch the Clouds!
On leaving the British Virgin Islands, we made another unplanned stop in the island of St. Christopher, commonly known as St. Kitts. We came in at night and anchored in a nice litt...
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14Land Ho! British Virgin Islands
After 6 days and 4 hours at sea we are now in the British Virgin Islands. The British Virgin Islands consist of three main islands with about 22,000 people: Jost Van Dyke(500), Tor...
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7San Salvador
Two days into the passage from the Abacos, we decided to make an unplanned stop in San Salvador. The winds were not cooperating so we motored more than we liked. So we decided to m...
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1Radio Margaritaville
We are tuned in! We have been lucky enough to be asked by Carson Cooper of Radio Margaritaville to phone in reports as we sail. Radio Margaritaville can be heard on Sirius Satellit...
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10Bahamas or Bust
After way too long it is finally time to leave. Our plan is to depart West Palm Beach for the Bahamas and spend just a few days there. Then we`ll head east into the Atlantic until ...
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11Finally - We are Ready!
After way too long and way too many projects, We are done! Or at least as done as we`ll ever be. We`ve taken a 3 week test trip down to the Keys and everything worked great! So, af...
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9What's taking so long......Maybe too much fun!
We never expected to take so long to get all the boat projects done, but we are really enjoying south Florida. So we thought we`d share a few pictures of what we`ve been doing besi...
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5Major Refit - West Palm Beach
Once we arrived in West Palm Beach we immediately started the boat projects. The list is long including: new teak decks, bow thruster, rewiring the whole boat, watermaker, granite ...
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12Bon Voyage Texas ---- Landfall Florida!
After four going away parties, it is finally time to say good-by to Texas. We decided to take a long leisurely sail down the Texas coast to Port Aransas prior to making the Gulf cr...
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