Written on January 24, 2012 by Wolfbernz
Filed Under: Atlantic ICW, New post, Top Sites Tuesday
So here we are we are, still in Jacksonville FL. Most mornings it has been easy to wake at sunrise and get started for the day. The last two mornings have been foggy and it seems to be harder than ever to get up and want to do anything. It’s all I can do to keep from sleeping in… lol
So my first thought this morning as I look out my window of the boat – I should get up and go to Dunkin Donuts and get some donuts and coffee. That will help the situation at hand.
*Phone rang*
I have enjoyed our stay on the boat it has been super quiet as in I can only get phone calls from the kids. I do miss them everyday, especially Jacob the Grandson, but the everyday drama and worry isn’t here.
This brings me to my second thought. Is it just me or is the younger group full of drama? I don’t remember there being so much of it when I was that age of the early twenty’s. The new shows on TV, (Yes I bought a tv and hung it on the wall of the boat) are incredibly full of drama. Is it possible that by watching these shows they are learning to act this way? The show we watched was awful and full of drama and some of the others were just sucky I think I will stick to Netflix… lol
I know that TV shows are supply and demand, do people really watch all these reality TV dramas? How about a good old fashioned MASH type show blending facts with reality, humor, and friendship in hard times in the worst of situations.
See everyone this evening!
Wolf
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Written on January 17, 2012 by Wolfbernz
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This week has gone by so fast it is incredible, work will do that to you I suppose. We have been working super long hours and trying to finish this motor boat so we can get going on the water again. It has been nice here, a bit chilly – you know fifty degrees – but a lot of the time it’s T-shirts and warm sunshine.
I was told it was fourteen degrees this morning on the farm, so my first thought is wow am I glad I am not there! I really do not want to be that cold or shovel snow or anything that goes along with it. The farm is beautiful this time of year but that’s cool they can send me a photo :}
My second thought this Tuesday is it is really sunny today and it is going to be in the seventies the rest of the week. It is really hard when it is like this to not just walk over start the sailboat and throw the dock lines and go south.
We pulled into this marina to get fuel and wait out a storm for just a few days to find we will be here for two months… It’s funny how life just kinda goes that way. This marina is nice, full of amenities like the gym, sauna, showers, laundry and the best part – floating docks. If you have ever been on the water you know what I am talking about… No climbing up and down the dock to get on and off the boat everything just goes up and down with the tides.
There should have been photos all along but we all know how good I am about that. I am going to take my phone to the boat today and take some photos so I can post them here on the blog.
Only a few more weeks and it will be time to kick the dock and leave, I can’t wait.
Have a great Tuesday,
Wolfbernz
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Written on January 10, 2012 by Wolfbernz
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I just realized we have been at this marina a month. It seems hard to believe it but we went home for Christmas and all. I am ready to throw the anchor and kick the dock, there have been some really sunny days lately that make this feeling even worse.
This brings me to my first thought for BlogDumps Top Site Tuesday “What the heck was I thinking when I took on a project that entails a thirty six foot large powerboat with wood everywhere?” This boat has the name Hollywood I want to call it “Lots of wood”. I have been asked to do certain things that needed fixing and now they want me to just finish the whole project!
So today is the day, I am paying for another month stay so I can finish this boat and get outta here. I would like to go just a little further south it just isn’t Florida enough here for me.
My second thought is St. Augustine is really nice and they say it’s the oldest city in America.
The water was nice it had a good inlet to get in and out of the Atlantic. I know, where are the photos? I didn’t take any this trip.
When we finish the the power boat it would be nice to go there for a couple weeks before we will have to start our trip north to go home. It seems as though time flew by the last couple weeks. It’s the middle of January already! Finally though things have calmed down and it’s nice to write on the blog.
Have a great Tuesday
Wolfbernz
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Written on January 3, 2012 by Wolfbernz
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Ok, so we thought we had escaped the cold, and we did for some time, but this arctic air has moved in and it is cold today. As I peek out the window of the boat and mutter who the hell wants to go out there… It almost looks like home on the Chesapeake Bay, the water is cold blue and the wind has that cold, slap you in the face feeling. The wind blown froth on the rocks looked frozen this morning.
The first thing I thought of was to use my Weather channel app to find out how long this will continue? Come to find out it will be in the fifties today and tomorrow will be the same and then back to sunny and warm.
Now my thinking is I will happily wear my down jacket and watch the mosquitoes die and the no-see’ems (by the way I saw them) All this cold hoopla crap is relevant to where we are used to living I guess what we think is cold.
My second thought of the day is I have to figure out where to put the TV on the boat, I actually have it working, now to mount it. On a boat location is very important.
I wasn’t going to get a TV because we were going to be on the move constantly so I wouldn’t have time to watch it. We landed in a small port and the third day we were here a nice man asked me to remodel his big wooden boat. Of course being the wood guy I am, most people would not get such an opportunity, and the money was right – so here we are. That’s were the TV came in…lol
This has been a fun trip and now it is getting better, I will upload some photos as we work on this new fun project 
The kicker of the boat remodel is the boat is called Hollywood,I would like them to name it Lots of Wood instead.
Have a great Tuesday
Wolfbernz
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Written on December 27, 2011 by Wolfbernz
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So it has been another great Christmas, I had a really good time hanging out with the grandson Jacob.
We arrived last week it was an easy flight and not as cold as I had thought it would be.
We had forgotten some things we wanted to have on the boat and this was a great opportunity to get them but getting them back was the issue…
Trina and I decided to take the car back to Florida, bringing back the items we wanted and so we would have wheels for the winter while we are there staying on the sailboat.
This brings me to my first thought for BlogDumps Top Sites Tuesday’s Two Thoughts.
So we have left super early today and thought there would not be any traffic and since it is Tuesday most everyone would be finished driving to their destinations… Wrong, not only is it nuts on I-95 it has decided to rain too not just a drizzle but steady rain. Yep stop, go, breakkkkkkk, OK go!
So this thought is WTF am I doing here? The drivers out here are nuts.
So as I close my eyes and reflect on the stay with the kids (I’m not driving right now by the way) it was a good trip.
Everyone was happy and in good holiday cheer. Jacob and I had a lot of fun playing with his trucks and toy tools. It amazes me that he knows the name of every tool and tractor.
We went to Toys R Us and we were just looking around and he said “Look Grandad that is a sit on excavator” how in the heck did he know that? It was a surprise to us including his mom and dad.
The main thought here though is I ate tooooo much food while we were there, it seemed as though everywhere we went there was food and more food, it was all so good I couldn’t help myself.
In a way I am glad we left so we can get back to our normal diet and daily routine. Well that and I miss the Warm sunny weather.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and have a safe and Happy New Year.
Wolfbernz
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Written on December 19, 2011 by Wolfbernz
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We have landed in Florida, as you may have read in a previous post. I am behind in posting about our trip and travels because we have been busy gathering our things and making sure the sailboat can be left unattended as we go home for the holidays.
This Tuesday’s first thought is What the heck was I thinking when I booked the flights!?! Am I crazy or what?
It is seventy degrees today in Florida and at home it it twenty five… OMG! We are going to freeze to death after getting used to the warm weather. I have my long underwear and my down jacket ready to go – we leave at five thirty in the morning from Jacksonville and arrive at twelve thirty at Baltimore-Washington airport. Everything is ready and packed, the boat is prepped and everything put away, batteries are charged… I will still worry though I don’t like the thought of leaving the boat for an extended period of time.
The second thought is, even though is will be colder than you know what, I can’t wait to see the grand kid! Jacob is going to be a ton of fun and this will be the first Christmas we have spent with him so I can hardly wait. They are picking us up at the airport tomorrow and we will be staying with them for the week and we’ll be visiting the kids for the holidays. Then after Christmas we will be heading back to the sailboat in Florida… Warm weather so I guess a little snow won’t hurt and it will feel like Christmas too. Here, where it is warm, it doesn’t seem the same on the holidays for some reason.
Just in case you don’t make it by have a Merry Christmas
Wolfbernz
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Written on December 13, 2011 by Wolfbernz
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I can’t believe another week has gone by already, time is just flying by with a blur.
The last time I posted we were in Turner Creek, Georgia, and since then we have made it all the way through Georgia and the swamplands full of alligators and snakes to Florida. We made really good time – we arrived here at Beach Marine in Jacksonville Beach on Saturday morning. Although we made good time it seems like weeks have past since Turner Creek.
When we left Turner Creek and headed south, we knew a storm was coming so we had to make plans ahead of time to stop. I had been watching the weather and had a plan to make it to Morningstar Marina just before the storm hit.
All good plans – or should I say best laid plans – don’t seem to always work out. About twelve o’clock mid day the sky turned ugly with dark clouds the high winds going one way and the low wind going right in our face, no sailing today. Trina and I talked about how bad it was starting to look and decided we would go a bit further and checked the charts for an “out” if it got real bad. Of course it got bad before they predicted, we should have had until three in the afternoon but not to our surprise at two o’clock the sky was dark as just before nightfall and the wind had picked up to thirty knots with super high gusts.
The boat started to feel real small as it was tossed around like a toy boat in a bath tub. We decided we would not make it to the first choice destination at this point we were getting slammed. We decided to go up a river,the South Altamaha, about four miles inland, even though it had cautions of high currents and that it is almost impossible to go in or out against the current. There was no choice at this point, we had heard over the radio the transmission of the boat called the Blue Moon that they were at the scene of another boat that had flipped and capsized – they were picking people out of the water.
If you have never been out there, the sheer terror of all this going on and you are in the same water listening to it unfold makes one realize the decisions we make can save a life. We were glad to be in the river for sure. The entrance to the river was an ugly one and I wasn’t sure we were supposed to go in there, to our luck we made it into the river at slack tide, no current. We were relieved to a degree, it seemed to be the longest four miles of the whole trip. We traveled turning the nose of the sailboat into the wind as the high gusts seem to want to put us on our side. I was very happy to see the marina up ahead after that last turn as the rain started to fall and the wind was gusting to fifty four miles an hour. The dock hands ran to the boat and helped us tie it in, it was safe and so were we. Then it was done – over just like that- in three hours the front had passed and we were sitting in the restaurant having a sandwich it was still windy but the sun even tried to come out.
This brings me to my first thought can you imagine what those guys on the other boat were thinking when they landed in the water? OMG… I couldn’t even guess myself.
We were told to head out as soon as we could in the morning to beat the tide or we would have to wait for the next tide that would occur on the next day. We gathered our things and headed out down the river the tide was high and it looked so different. We were headed out the same way we went in but it kept getting too shallow – at two points we just touched the bottom, almost ran aground, and then we realized just how lucky we were the day before, or was it luck?
This brings me to my next thought, earlier I mentioned what good time we had made and about the decisions that we make. We almost didn’t leave that morning but something said leave so we did, we made it to a perfect anchorage with the dolphins coming right to the sailboat and in just a couple days we were putting out dock lines here at Beach Marine, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, just before the next big storm. So my second thought is – It’s good to follow that gut instinct and I am glad we did the next storm lasted for three days with high winds and four inches of rain every twenty four hours!
So we are safe and sound and the sun has returned we will be here for the week and fly home next Tuesday for the holidays with the kids. Driving the car back so we can have wheels while we are here.
Wolfbernz
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