We upped anchor at 8:30 AM to make sure no issues with being ready for the 9 AM bridge opening to exit the Simpson Bay lagoon at St Maarten on Sunday June 7, 2020 in the year of the ‘Rona. I was fully mentally ready to jump in the...
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Don’t Take the Typical Exumas Route-A Tale of Two Bahamas
Tale 1: Two years back we left the US for the Bahamas with a plan of seeing the Exumas of which we had heard so much. Like many cruisers, we had plans of going at least to George Town, had read our Van Sant book, and had our route...
A Tale of Two ICWs
If you’ve been following along with us here on the blog or watching our YouTube channel, you know that we took the slowest approach to going north on the Atlantic ICW possible. This past spring we stopped at virtually every city or cool anchorage along the way north. We...
Holiday’s 2018 Summer Plan and Musings on Different Cruising Plans
Last year for our first summer living aboard Holiday, the original plan had been to cruise up the ICW and tour the eastern coast of the US. Our thinking was to ease into our new life before tackling big passages, see a bunch of cities we had never been...
2 and a half months in Boot Key Harbor Part 1
After realizing from our Keys cruising last year that the Boot Key Harbor mooring field in Marathon was by far the most protected, comfortable place in the Keys that also had the most fun stuff to do, we decided that this year we would just keep Holiday there through...
Want a Fun on Holiday T-shirt!?
Hello all! We kept seeing people on other boats with shirts with their boat and boat name on them. We’ve been thinking, “We need some Fun on Holiday T-shirts too!” So, we designed some T-shirts for ourselves to wear and are putting together an order. The website we used...
A Guide to a Leisurely Trip across the Okeechobee Waterway
So, you’ve thought about crossing the state of Florida through the Okeechobee Waterway (or maybe you just want to read about our experience doing so and see some cool pictures). You’ve done a little research and read about locks, short bridges, shallow depths in Lake Okeechobee, or rough conditions...
10 Hours, and 20 Drawbridges, and the Presidential Exclusion Zone….Oh my!
After almost 2 weeks in Ft Lauderdale on the mooring ball, we were ready to get moving again. We had ordered parts and repaired quite a few things that had broken in the Bahamas: new anchor windlass motor ordered and installed, new propane solenoid control panel, repaired primary winch,...