Our thanks to Eddie and Cara for sharing their repair expertise as recorded in their excellent blog, The Crabby Captain and the Sunny Sailor.
Just today I need my top. Everyone needs a top from time to time and our sailboat’s Bimini needed some repairs. Here is some how to’s to help fellow boaters do the same. From threading the Sailrite sewing machine, to replacing the marine vinyl, we tell you how to do it step by step. And maybe you will see us with no top!
Our thanks to Bill Parlatore for permitting Cruisers’ Net to post articles from his excellent blog, Following Seas.
It’s been a crazy summer around Annapolis, with constant rain and heavy humid air on Chesapeake Bay. Not much fun for boating, but as we move into the second half of the season, it’s a good time to do some midsummer maintenance. Bill Parlatore
Our thanks to longtime cruiser and regular Cruisers’ Net contributor for this disturbing report from south Florida.
Hi Capt, We moved ashore to St James city Florida last August (Jean needed another hip replaced) and we still cruise on our new to us 30 Mainship Pilot. Come down and visit we have room in our canal home. The fishing was great until a month ago the discharge from Lake O and the red tide hit the area. Our last visit to Cayo Costa made us sick from all the dead fish and the red tide made us ill. Dead 400lb groupers, dolphins, manatees and over 300 turtles line the shores of Sanibel, Captiva and Cayo Costa, even a whale dead on the beach. The sad truth is no one in government is doing much than saying the same things they always do. The red tide comes every year, but the Lake O discharge is a fixable problem.
Now our biggest concern is the water here has gone from beautiful and clean to horrible and filled with dead
fish. Between the red tide and Lake O waste discharges, the wildlife does not have a chance. I do not know what can be done. I know that writers like Carl Hiaasen have been complaining about the Lake O discharges since I started boating 45 yrs ago and politicals have promised and made $$$ off of vested interests that are raping Florida. Consider sharing with your readers the petition.
We cruised east to west across the Okeechobee Waterway a little over a week ago. Saw and smelled the algae, witnessed and smelled the dead fish AND saw crabbers emptying their traps in the same water along the Caloosahatchie River above Ft. Myers. The state and local governments allow the crabbers to harvest their crop in that filth? Someone told me that “hey, the crabbers have to make money to feed their kids.” Does that make it OK? Enjoy your stone crab claws and your crab cakes.
They need to embark upon a long term dredging and remediation project to get rid of the organic muck in the lake that feeds the algae. Instead, both PB County and the Corp are interested in small, inexpensive projects that will not improve anything but they can then say they are doing something. They actually want to dig more containment basins to hold more water and muck. Or they want to skim the algae off the top of the canals so it doesn’t look as bad. No one seems to have the courage to address this problem correctly and remove the organic sediment from the lake. Will be expensive and take many (10+) years but it will stop the algae blooms. And yes, I am involved with some proposed remediation that is unlikely to happen.
Our thanks to Bill Parlatore for permitting Cruisers’ Net to post articles from his excellent blog, Following Seas.
Time to step back from social media and regroup. How we get our information has changed in recent years, and not for the better. We need to rethink where we look for answers and updates. A new world is emerging that embraces a more human connection.
Elizabeth City, A CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR and the friendliest-to-boaters community on the Waterway, is located on the Pasquotank River off the northeast corner of Albemarle Sound and at the southern end of the Dismal Swamp Canal Route. With the canal fully open to navigation, this wonderful community continues its calendar of exciting events, making a stop at Mariners Wharf in the heart of Elizabeth City a must!
This destroyed ICW light is on the west shoulder of the Waterway immediately north of its intersection with Masonboro Inlet channel.
2. SEC NC BNM 348-18 3. NORTH CAROLINA – NEUSE RIVER TO MYRTLE GROVE SOUND (CHART 11541) 4. NEW RIVER – CAPE FEAR RIVER LIGHT 128 (LLNR 39625 [34°11.8130N / 077°49.4033W, 34.196884 / -77.823389]) RPTD DESTROYED. PORTIONS MAY REMAIN.
Our thanks to Bill Parlatore for permitting Cruisers’ Net to post articles from his excellent blog, Following Seas.
Times have changed since we first talked about integrating all electrical systems on a boat, even a complex trawler or sailboat. The marine industry wasn’t ready for it, but that is all behind us now. For lots of reasons, 2018 may be considered The Year of Integration in recreational boating.
Twin Dolphin Marina, A CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR, sits perched on the southern shores of Manatee River, just short of the Highway 41 Business bridge. We get lots of praise, like these good words from AGLCA member Kathy Anderson, for this fine marina and their commitment to facility upgrades, see FOCUS ON.
Twin Dolphins marina in Bradenton is in our top 5 marinas from our western 1/2 loop in 2014. Close to downtown which has a Saturday market, and it has a lovely restaurant onsite. It also abuts the river walk which is great for walkers and runners. Plus they have fun Christmas decorations and not far from Siesta Key/Sarasota (except for seasonal traffic). They have a pool, as well as the usual amenities. When we visited on our land vacation this past winter they were making some improvements to some of the docks. Kathy Anderson
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