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July 22, 2017
I’m sure by now that you are aware of our recent trip to the Bahamas, so if you are impatiently waiting for more details, then please allow me to deliver just that. Who’s Idea Was This? Sometime last year, Facebook recommended a page to me by the name of Florida Jetski, and on that page […]
June 25, 2017
There comes a time in every large boat’s life when it must be hauled out of the water for services. They say you should do it once a year, at a minimum. With our one year anniversary of owning the boat right around the corner, and our records showing the boat had not been hauled […]
April 27, 2017
Between the four of us in the Wiffullens crew, (Bobby and Christina Mullens, plus Will and Tiff), we like to go somewhere for one or two of our birthday’s each year. We did Barbados for Christina’s birthday in December, and local things for Tiff’s birthday in January, so for my birthday in March, we planned […]
April 22, 2017
February is the heart of “season” here in SWFL. So, this means a lot more traffic both on land and on the water. Fishermen say that the fish patterns change this time of year, because of the water temperature. But, I secretly think the fish are hiding from all the water-bound snowbirds and rental pontoon […]
April 18, 2017
As you may recall, the trip from Marinatown to Snook Bight was supposed to serve as our official Captain training session. However, when the one engine overheated after 5-minutes of leaving the dock, Captain Russell ended up handling the boat the entire trip. So, we asked him to come back out for take two of […]
April 1, 2017
At some point earlier in the year, I made it a personal mission for us to travel internationally at least once per year. Thankfully we made arrangements for this trip BEFORE the boat and all of it’s surprises. Otherwise… well you know. So, this year I wanted a Caribbean destination that most caribbean cruises don’t […]
March 21, 2017
The beginning of November was actually uneventful. We realized that working on the boat all weekend long usually results in something else breaking or going wrong… and it always happened around 5:00pm. So our official quitting time from all boat labor activities became 4:30-5:00pm. At that time, we would stop and do what we […]
February 18, 2017
It was time to prepare the dock lines. We had already radioed to the marina, and they were aware that we only had one engine. The dock master had his tow boat ready for us, and all hands on deck at our slip. We needed to get the boat stern in (backed into our slip), […]
February 2, 2017
The morning came, and we were right in gear with everything we needed. We stopped by Dunkin Donuts to provide breakfast for the 2 Captains we were having on board. One was (retired) Captain Mike, a raunchy USMC Vietnam Vet who knew more about our boat than the guy we bought it from. He lived at Marinatown, […]
January 28, 2017
It was the night before we were set to move the boat to our new marina at Snook Bight in Fort Myers Beach, Fl. We were restless and anxious because we were finally going to live aboard the boat that had consumed our lives for the last 5 months. Furthermore, we were giving up suburban […]