All Entries Tagged With: "boat"
Boat Bites III (attack of the carnivores)
By: Nat Manning I don’t know how long, for months, a plan has been rattling around between the Captain of Velella and myself of roasting a leg of lamb. After many conversations at the Tiki Bar and numerous ‘false starts’, we finally got serious and made the plans final and binding. Not wanting to be [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
