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New Dinghy Motor

After fighting water current for 6 months using our trolling motor when trying to get to shore and back, we decided to outfit our dink with a new Mercury 3.5hp gasoline engine. There were too many times where the little 30# thrust motor just didn’t feel like it was going to get us back to [...]

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New Dinghy

It was a gorgeous weekend, but we didn’t get any sailing in. Blake was sick all weekend and had a fever Saturday. He was doing better yesterday morning and did make it to school. This coming weekend is supposed to be just as nice, so we’ll be out on the water for sure. It’s storming [...]

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Weekend Anchored

What a beautiful weekend we had here in Pensacola. We shoved off from the dock around 4:30pm on Friday and headed to Ft. McRee. The temp was great over Friday night. We got up around 5am Saturday morning, fixed coffee and had breakfast, then went for a couple of hours sail before returning to Ft. [...]

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New Dinghy

Here’s our new dinghy. We were using a little 2 person (with three of us on it) Coleman inflatable, which wasn’t very rigid and you would get wet. So for the extended camping weekend earlier this month, we picked up a new dinghy and trolling motor. It all deflates and stores easily when not used. [...]

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