Month: October, 2009

On the Harrrrrrd

31 October, 2009 (18:43) | Virginia | By: tillergirl

Yep, we’re still in the boatyard waiting for parts.  If we stay any longer we’ll be invited to Thanksgiving dinner at the yard owner’s home.   Boats come and go, efficiently painting their bottoms, relaunching and heading down the ICW to the promised land.  We’ve had lots of neighbors and some have stopped to admire all [...]

Welcome to the Yoohoo Boatyard B & B

27 October, 2009 (15:20) | Virginia | By: tillergirl

We on Yoohoo are always eager for friends and relatives to visit us so they can experience the cruising life firsthand.  We thoroughly enjoy showing off our lifestyle of hammock lounging, bon-bon nibbling, sunset gazing, and rum swigging.  So when my sister-in-law scheduled a two-day visit in late October we told her it was perfect [...]

Salty Jean

4 October, 2009 (14:32) | Maryland | By: tillergirl

We recently crewed for our friends Sally and Jesse White on a non-stop delivery of Pyxsis, their newly purchased pristine Tayana 42, from Baltimore to Hampton.  Sally looked so at ease steering 32,000 lbs of boat that I had to ask if, as a young mother, she ever imagined she’d helm her own sailing vessel [...]