Archive for September, 2008
After Action Report Pirate Party
I have to express my apologies and concede that though a fair weaver of stories, I’m a poor action reporter. I was right on scene on the afternoon/night of the 21st and now it’s the 28th and I still haven’t submitted an article outlining the events of that ill-famed night. I’ve just apologized, but I [...]
Almost got away from the dock, repairs
Well, it was a nice project, and things actually worked out for me, which in itself is a bit unusual. I only have about $50.00 worth of spare parts from stuff I purchased that I didn’t actually need, and I did get all the water out of the system.
Once I got into the project, I [...]
Can’t seem to get away from the dock this week
This is my ‘almost’ getting things done month. I almost got the bilge pumps working. I almost got the jib back up. I almost got the dink fixed and the hole patched, I almost sold lots of books, I almost…
So we finally got all the little bad things done. Everything that was keeping me at [...]
A moment on the beach…
I was watching the news this morning and started to get depressed. The economy is falling apart, they want my tax dollars so they can hand them over to people who already have millions in off shore accounts, one stupid campaign ad after the next… Enough already!
There is not much to this story, nothing really [...]
Talk Like a Pirate
This is an important world wide service announcement from the coast! Tomorrow, September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This is not something you want to forget or ignore.
As a past observer of this important event, I am astutely aware of it’s importance and propriety in today’s world. I’m not making this up, [...]
The Real Larry
This has gone long enough. Larry playing the suave sophisticated author sitting in a leather chair in a study surrounded by shelves of books, maybe smoking a pipe. I could just tell you about the real Larry, but perhaps a story will better illustrate the Larry that I know.
It starts in the middle of the [...]
Key Largo scuba diving
Warm pristine waters, tropical fish galore, and the sound of scuba bubbles racing towards the surface. Sometimes it just doesn’t get any better than that.
Thirty feet below the surface is a sandy bottom interlaced with coral ridges leading to a labyrinth of twists, turns, and surprises. Slowly fin kicking around the edge of another coral [...]
Marooned!
Much attention has been focused on survival as a castaway both in movies and reality shows lately. Having had a recent experience regarding this subject, I can tell you that movies and reality shows fail to convey the array of emotions that are very much an important part of the castaway experience. Folks [...]
Don’s Marine Salvage Yard and spare parts emporium
Hello.
Since this is my first submission to Larry’s blog, I’ll introduce myself. My name is Nat and I used to have a life of adventure and excitement. Then I retired and the most exciting thing in my life now is eating enough fiber to keep my system functioning with some amount of regularity. I have [...]
Shark teeth hunting, Venice Beach
Prehistoric sharks teeth, lying right there on the beach! You can find shark’s teeth 15-25 million years old here. Venice Beach is a well know site for fossilized shark’s teeth hunting. Most of the teeth are less than 2 inches in length and dark colored. Located a short distance off shore it is possible to [...]
Welcome
Greetings everyone,
I would like to welcome you to my blog, Southern Crosses, which just happens to be the name of my newly released novel. Southern Crosses was several years in the making, and was quite a project of mine. I wanted to take you on a sailing adventure along the western coast of present day [...]
Introductions
Welcome to the Southern Crosses blog, and thank you for visiting. I would like to introduce the crew of the s/v AbbyGale based in St. Pete Beach Florida. We are aboard a 1985 40′ Endeavour Center Cockpit sloop rig sailboat. The sloop rig designation means that we have a single mast, and are just a [...]
Our boat
Welcome aboard the s/v AbbyGale, our 1985 Endeavour sloop rigged center cockpit sailboat. The s/v stands for sailing vessel, sloop rig means one single mast, and the center cockpit is just that, in the center. She is 40 feet long and weighs 25,000 pounds. An amazing 8,600 pounds of lead is in the bottom of [...]
Chat with the author
Questions, comments, or suggestions, I welcome them all. Please feel free to let me know what you thought about my book, this web site, or sailing and travel in Florida. Do you have a favorite Florida beach hangout you would like to share? Where is that special out of the way eatery with a distinctive [...]
Sarasota Bradenton report
We really enjoyed our time in Sarasota and learned a lot about the anchorage there. Downtown is an interesting place and the buildings are beautiful. It looks nothing like the standard downtown areas we are used to. There was a nice city park that we took the dinghy to, and guess what? A Tiki Bar!
There [...]
Venice to Sarasota
Good Morning everyone…
Well then. We hid out in Venice for a couple of days looking for the weather in the Gulf to clear up or abate a little. The west winds have the Gulf of Mexico chopped, cloudy and basically unhappy. Yesterday, the 18th, we decided to head out of Venice and turn left (south). [...]
Desoto Point visited
Greetings from Venice.
Well, the weather finally calmed down up in the Manatee River. The winds settled a bit so we hoped into the dink, collected our friends and headed for Desoto Point.
Well, about 1am we heard a very loud crash up on deck over our heads. Startled awake and jumping onto the deck in my [...]
Manatee River anchorage
Hello from the great waters of the Manatee River.
We arrived Monday afternoon after a nice ride across the Tampa Bay channel and headed south into the Manatee River. We have not been here before so it’s a new place for us. I got to use the new chart plotter to try and keep us in [...]
Book purchasing information and discounts
Southern Crosses is presently offered for sale: Buy a copy of Southern Crosses! and is listed on Amazon, B&N and other online retailers.
Bulk rate purchases are available upon request, for a quote, please contact me at:
annen@southerncrosses.com
Please contact me at the above address should you be interested in any book signing events in the Florida [...]
