Five boats, about 30 folks headed south of Jupiter by about an hour to Peanut Island for a lunch cookout. Peanut island is the former home of a cold war bunker intended for President Kennedy when he was nearby. Our trip was on a friend's Grady White Freedom 325, a great boat.
Century Club: mike pitchford
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Number of days:
1 day
Girls Weeklend and I am the driver. Lunch cruise to Juno Dunes Nature Preserve. Hike over just before some rain and back into slip before massive rain and thunder storms.
Friday, March 11, 2022
Number of days:
1 day
sister in for a visit boat trip for lunch at local restaurant
Friday, March 4, 2022 to Sunday, March 6, 2022
Number of days:
3 days
Closed on the new to us boat, s Back Cove 37 on Thursday. We spent the weekend “moving in”. This included loading an inordinate amount of gear (and not really everything yet). It also included a lot of measuring, thinking about improvements and additions, etc. One of the most important riddles to resolve, coffee. Where is the coffee maker going to go? Is a built in the best option? Stay tuned.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Number of days:
1 day
One of the pleasures of retirement, being a snowbird is winter boat shows. Today is one of those days, Trawlerfest Stuart.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Number of days:
1 day
One of the pleasures of retirement, being a snowbird and having a small boat with you in snowbird land is quick lunch cruises to local waterfront restaurants. Today is one of those days.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Number of days:
1 day
One of the pleasures of retirement, being a snowbird and belonging to a small local yacht club is mid-week lunchtime raft-ups. Today is one of those days.
Friday, February 18, 2022
Number of days:
1 day
With a new boat under contract, we turned our attention to selling the current boat, our Legacy 32. In this hot market it sold for over asking price in 24 hours. The purchaser from NJ, will visit her this week and remove one of two contingencies. The other contingency is survey and sea trial, which can’t happen until sometime in April.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Number of days:
1 day
I reported earlier on the decision to sell the condo and buy a new bigger boat. Today was survey day. The boat was in South Carolina so I flew out of BWI to the sometimes quaint, but mostly beach tacky, Myrtle Beach.
The surveyor, engine surveyor and boat yard were all organized for a morning of thorough inspection. Both brokers and the current owner were also present. It was a very nice February Day in Myrtle Beach and all went well.
Friday, February 11, 2022 to Saturday, February 12, 2022
Number of days:
2 days
Boys on the beach
Back in college a bond was set for life with a few guys who were both fraternity brothers and roommates in a succession of apartments after we all moved out of the dorms. One of us had a sailboat, a venerable Cape Dory 25. I can’t tell you the number of classes we skipped to sail.
Post-graduation the four of us went on to jobs, marriage and kids. In 1992 I pulled them back together for a “boys sail”, the first of what has become an annual, and sometimes more than annual event.
We have sailed the Chesapeake on six different sailboats, owned or chartered for the purpose. We have cruised the ICW on several powerboats. We have chartered in the BVI three times.
A fourth BVI charter was scheduled for the end of February. Due to COVID related issues we decided to postpone it to 2023. As a consolation, the boys flew down to Jupiter for some time on our little runabout.
The boys arrived at Palm Beach International Airport, courtesy of Southwest Airlines, on Thursday evening.
On Friday, we dropped my 20’ Key West, Mighty Quinn, off her lift and cruised the ICW to include a stop for lunch at one of Jupiter’s many waterfront restaurants.
On Saturday we went for a longer trip up the ICW to a week known anchorage and beach. We had on board a picnic lunch and some beer ut no sunscreen so, yes, a little too much sun.