s/v Monomoy's blog

What a way to end 2011! The weather forecast originally called for great weather through Sunday, January 1 of 2012. Our plan was to depart Wednesday sailing to Ft. McRee, Thursday to Ingram Bayou in Alabama, Friday back to McRee to join friends, Saturday head to Little Sabine for New Year festivities, then return to [...]

School/work wasn’t in session for Blake/Carol on Friday due to Veteran’s Day, so we proudly flew Old Glory and set sail for the Blue Angel’s Homecoming Air Show. Ben having a Heineken. Blake was busy making clay figures in his V-berth. Tammy and Marlin followed us over. Once we rounded Navy Point, the wind settled [...]

Forecast was for a gorgeous weekend and that is exactly what we got. The weekend began on Friday night (Oct. 21) with a renaming ceremony, plus fair winds and safe travels party for the crew of s/v Parallax who are departing the marina Thursday, when they begin their Caribbean adventure. During the Friday night festivities, [...]

Finally!! We were away from the dock and heading out sailing with intent of staying overnight. DeLuna Fest was in full swing at Pensacola Beach, so we figured we’d anchor in Little Sabine to catch some of the sounds. It was a beautiful day on the bay. Not many other boaters out for some reason [...]

We awoke bright and early on Saturday morning with the pleasure of watching the sunrise. We departed the dock around 8am with the wind steady and perfect all day. We were cruising around 6.3 knots a good portion of the day. We headed out to the Gulf with Pirate Blake on the lookout. Pogo relaxed. [...]

Well, it was the last weekend of summer vacation 2011 and the weather was looking great, so we set sail Friday for Little Sabine. There was only one other sailboat on the bay and a barge. Ben can easily work from Little Sabine with the WiFi setup we have on the boat, so it allows [...]

Monday and Tuesday promised to be gorgeous and with it being the last week of summer vacation, we had to take advantage, so we tossed the dock lines and set sail for Little Sabine. We had a really nice sail over, swam, and had fish sandwiches topped with crawfish for dinner; it was fantastic. Unfortunately [...]

Our intention was to sail over to Ft. McRee early in the day along with friends. We set sail around 10am Friday morning to a clear radar, but by noon storms were all over. Since our friends hadn’t yet departed the dock, we decided to return to the marina, have lunch, and figure out what [...]