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Video Blog: Turbo Goes Exploring

Fun exploring the upper islands with the jetski over the holiday…

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Video Blog: Liveaboard Christmas

SWFL Christmas = Sun, sandman, boat parades, spiced rum & egg nog.

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Celebrating Dry Season

When the rain becomes sparse and the snowbirds become plentiful, it’s winter in FL!

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Jet Ski Camping Trip

Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial start of Summer, and a time for locals to enjoy the beaches with fewer tourists. This year, we planned to join the masses of boaters that swarm Keewaydin Island, a popular beach only accessible by boat. So popular, in fact, that on holiday weekends there isn’t enough space on […]

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Saints & Spring Breakers

Key West wasn’t the only adventure of March, 2017. We can’t forget about St. Patty’s Day and Spring Break! One of our marina’s long-time dock hands, held a St. Patty’s Day bash at his house, which is just a short bike ride away from the marina. Lucky for us, St. Patty’s Day was on a […]

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Our First Christmas Aboard Wiffersnapper

Christmas Eve Eve, I got off work early and spent a lovely afternoon on the top deck of Wiffersnapper with Will and the cats, oh and a few glasses of whatever this drink was that Will concocted to resemble a Christmas tree… and our citronella candle. Christmas Light Bike Ride After dinner, and about four […]

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The Tree Will Fit

When we returned from Barbados, a few of the boats were already decked out in Christmas lights and decorations. “Oh crap, it’s December!” I thought to myself as we brainstormed how we would decorate our new home. We already owned a few decorations from the year prior when we decorated the rental home… but where would […]

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Margaritas and Turkeys

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 […]

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Goblins and Pirates

October flew by, and before we knew it, it was Halloween!   Would we get any trick-or-treaters?? Highly unlikely, since there was only one family with a kid who lived at the marina, Kim and Randy and their son Corey. Together, we cleverly nick-named them “Kandy,” kind of like how we were nick-named “Wiff.”   […]

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