Joined the guys for a game of tackle on the beach football
Yesterday I learnt how to tie up in a slip with pylons. Omar the dock guy at the Holy wood marina showed me how ! They have a 2 foot tide at this marina and parking is included for about 35 bucks a day. Unfortunately you cannot park the trailor unless you pay 1$ an hour and keep your car hooked up to it. Omar told me to park the trailer between the police trailers and lock her up and I could get away with it.
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Hey, who is that old guy, in that picture, in front of all those kids? He sure seems out of place, must either be a mid-life crisis or living out his second childhood.
Looks like you have some decent weather, have a great trip.
Bertrand looks like he's having a GRAND time of it, he smiles like the Cheshire Cat in all his pic's... good for him, he seems like a really nice fellow and deserves it all. Enjoy ! Enjoy ! Enjoy !
Frank L.
PS: Seems like BLUE Mac owners have a better time wherever they go !
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Still in Hollywood, had a tornado warning night before last and a tropical storm yesterday which flooded the parking lot at the marina. Internet is no good at the Hollywood municiapal marina...but security and service is excellent. I am of course the baby boat here and the multi million dollar boat captains ask about my fine looking sail boat. Leaving for the keys tomorrow or monday depending on the weather.
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You just get used to being the smallest boat on the pond. It can make for humorous situations at times. In April 2004 we were stuck for a week in West End, waiting for the north wind to stop blowing so we could cross back to Florida. The Old Bahama Bay Marina was jammd with boats, all much larger than our little Mac, also waiting for the weather window. Weather info was scarce and sketchy. For some reason, I was the only boat in the marina who could tune in NOAA weather 70 miles away, out of Florida, on my 25 watt Standard Horizon Eclipse VHF radio. I got a kick out of the skippers from big boats stopping by our boat each day so they could listen in on my cockpit speaker and catch the latest forecast.
Actualy I hear the weather's been the pit's down south this yr I even have relatives in TX who had their house water pipes freeze this winter
Fri we had +20C & sat -0C & snow flurries ,twenty deg's differnce in one day
Finally got a reasonable internet connection at the comfort inn in Srping field N.C.(I think)
. I'm tired , I'm tanned and I'm on the way home now. There's a bullet hole in the Buick and a head light is out so I can't drive at night.....but luckily nobody shot at the boat.....YET!!!. I will have to change my trip title to Québec to the Keys and back as we encountered tropical storms, tornado warnings,water spouts and torrential rainfalls with lightening and thunder storms and rough seas...so we decided to wait till next year to go to the Bahamas . The up side was that we were advised that this was the best weather they have had since December. My best friends have been the boat heater, the full enclosure and the autopilot. The shoot out at South Dade Marina 2 days ago was the culminating point and last deciding factor for a quick trip home. It's been exciting...and not what I was expecting......but what the hull that's life eh!
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Maybe he changed his mind and went to Cuba 