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Bay Breeze at Snead Island

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After a wonderful sail with our sister ship, Zydeco, we didn't have the weather window to bring Bay Breeze home to our dock. We decided the prudent option is to wait for the weather in April sail Bay Breeze on the long (for us) overnight crossing up from St. Pete. Hopefully we will have better and warmer weather to sail back to Shell Point. Until then, our boat is safe at the yard getting service and a few new upgrades at Snead Island Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida. Please note our blog has moved to www.shoalsailer32.com. We are posting here in case anyone has lost track of our new website address.
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Blog Migration - we've moved.

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  A little birdie told me that you can see our blog at a new web address.    We have moved our blog to www.shoalsailer32.com with a new host.  You can sign up for email notices of future posts. Thanks for sharing in our adventures! Marvin and Lee 
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12 Years and still venturing south.

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Year 12 sailing south to the Keys in spring and back to our dock for hurricane season. This year we have not published a blog until now. We have visited a lot of the same venues and our adventures are similar to those we've experienced in the past. Mostly, we have delayed publishing because we are looking for a new blog host. We have seen in our statistics that most of our traffic is coming from China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. We are not believing there is that much interest in us, the Florida Keys and Maine in those places. It makes us nervous about security and hackers and our present host will not allow blocking country IP addresses. So here's a summary of our twelfth year cruising down to the Keys for a little over a month this spring.  We were delayed by weather from our planned departure in early April. Our original plan was to leave home with plenty of time to get to Dunedin, stay a couple days, and make a presentation to the Dunedin Boat Club thoughtfully arranged by o...
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THANKSGIVING - 35 years on and we're still sailing!

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  Tropicbird This is the 35th anniversary of a Thanksgiving that we hold very special.  It was November 21-23, 1988. In our 37-year career, it was rare that we took a dedicated vacation. Running a small mom-and-pop company limited the time we could be away from our business. We might take an extra day tagged onto a work trip or a long weekend to visit family in South Florida. But, that really wasn't recreation time. Besides, we traveled so much to so many wonderful places, we never felt the need to take time off to change the scenery. But, we did long for more time to cruise on our sailboat. Our  Tropicbird,  a 1960 Pearson Triton, was a well-found sailboat. We became her caretaker in 1979. The fabled classic Triton was a Carl Alberg designed, heavy displacement craft, full keel with a four foot draft. We worked to refit and upgrade  Tropicbird  and invested much sweat equity and funds. In 1985 we repowered with a Westerbeke diesel. A few years of neglect b...
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