Ian
C Ghost came through hurricane Ian in good shape with only a few scratches. Although Ian’s winds in the marina were stronger than those from the much more damaging hurricane Irma (2017), they came from the opposite direction. As it passed by us just offshore, Ian’s strongest winds were from the north to north-west which […]
Carl the Fishwhisperer Redux
One of the many pleasures of boating life is the chance to meet new people. The water draws an immensely varied assortment of folks and each is unique and very often, a lot of fun to get to know. Some are fellow boaters, either live-aboards or day sailors, but we’ve also met many who come […]
Isaias
All is well here after Isaias passed by us early this morning. We didn’t get nearly the wind or rain that was predicted. The featured picture is a screen shot I took this morning from our favorite weather app (PredictWind). The northern Florida coastline is on the left side and the little green dot about […]
Yeah! – The Beach is open
This morning we took a walk on the newly re-opened St. Augustine Beach. In the current coronavirus-challenged times, we know “typical” beach scenes like we enjoyed today are NOT typical everywhere and can be viewed thru very different lenses by different folks. We have friends, family, and neighbors experiencing differing degrees of risk, fear, hope, […]
The St. Augustine Swashbuckler’s Pirate Fest
This past weekend was the 4th annual Old City Pirate Fest, which is put on by the St. Augustine Swashbucklers. Formed in 2001, the St. Augustine Swashbucklers started out as a pirate-loving social group, who dressed in pirate garb and went out in public, appearing at various dinners and social events. The St. Augustine Swashbucklers […]
Hurricane Dorian
After a couple days of inspecting everything, we can now say we had no damage to the boat at all from hurricane Dorian. As mentioned in the previous post, our dock had a little damage, but even that was relatively minor. In the two days after the storm we drove around town in addition to […]
Kitchen Window
As a child, my favorite window in our home in New Jersey was the double-sized one directly over the kitchen sink. My Nanny and Grandpop lived in the house right next door. It had an identical mirror-image floor plan, so in addition to getting a good view of our side yard and part of the […]
Visit to the Alligator Farm
We are fortunate enough here in St. Augustine to have the Alligator Farm Zoological Park only a few miles from C Ghost. Established in 1893, it underwent one move from lower ground to slightly higher in 1926, and has had continuous improvements since that time. It is well worth visiting. The park is a well-organized, […]
Dock Repairs
Although our marina was spared the serious devastation that Hurricane Irma wreaked in other locales in Florida, and even treated us lightly in comparison to several other marinas in St. Augustine, there was still damage to our docks. It was instructive to see just what vulnerabilities the wind and surge exploited, and what held fast. […]
Hurricane Irma
C Ghost came through Irma quite well with only a few scratches. We were very lucky as several other boats in our marina were damaged as well as three of the docks (including ours). Clean-up is underway. We have electricity back but no water. Unbelievably, the first thing to come back on was the Comcast […]