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About Carleen&Jim

Sailing (and other) adventures of Carleen and Jim often featuring us sailing or racing our trailerable trimarans.

Willymakeit?  Sure hope so!

The Everglades Challenge has been on Jim’s bucket list radar for a few years. It is a 300 mile race from Fort De Soto, St. Petersburg to Key Largo. It is put on by the Watertribe… A group of adventure … Continue reading

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Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium

The Mote Lab and Aquarium is awesome! They have marine life hospitals as well as research labs, all of which we couldn’t see but I’ve heard they are doing a lot for marine mammals and other sea life. I’ve also … Continue reading

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Loxahatchee to Englewood

Some pictures of scenes from our drive across south Florida. Peace River between Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte Heading to the Lemon Bay shoreline at Cape Haze Marina The Intracoastal Waterway at Cape Haze Marina Cape Haze marina. Site of … Continue reading

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More pics from the Southern Palm B and B 

From our lovely stay at Southern Palm in Loxahatchee a few days ago. Our 31 (which you can see through the palmettos if you look carefully) will stay there until Jim’s race is done. Then Jim and Paul will drive … Continue reading

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1-800-Welcome to the USA?

We all know about 1-800 numbers right?  Did you know that a Canadian cell can’t call a US 1-800 number?  I didn’t either! As Canadians boating into the US,  we are supposed to fly a yellow Q flag until we … Continue reading

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Westward Ho! 

Mini post: yesterday we stored the big boat at the B and B, picked up the little tri in Lake Worth and headed west to the Gulf Coast. We stayed in Englewood at the Sun Coast Inn which has huge … Continue reading

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Southern Palm B and B

We have more to tell about our day with Customs and getting the boat on the trailer but for now here are some more random pics and a few videos below.  By the way, we are staying at the Southern … Continue reading

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No grand piano but we do have a bar aboard!

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Play me that Grand piano…

Ok so much to tell about finally crossing the Gulf Stream from Bimini to Fort Lauderdale. Saturday February 25. Enjoyed a pretty leisurely crossing…. The wind even lightened so much that we ended up motor sailing for about 20 nautical … Continue reading

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We made it!

Left Bimini @8:30, arrived Fort Lauderdale at 6:00pm.  Even had to motorsail in the middle. Dodged 6 cruise ships on the way in. Made it! Yay!

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