This weekend we’ll be moving Duet to her new home in Brisbane Marina, just south of San Francisco. http://brisbaneca.org/about-brisbane-marina We’re looking forward to getting things “ship-shape” again so we can enjoy sailing in the SF Bay Area with friends and family. Those interested in doing some sailing or just coming down for a visit should comment!
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Duet’s in the SF Bay area now!
Duet’s overland trip was completed today (Friday, June 23rd) at around 12:30pm. We were able to watch the whole unloading process via webcam. We’re having a bottom job done before it goes back into the water, so for now it’s up on the hard until that’s completed. Her new home will be the Brisbane Municipal Read More
Transportation date set, Duet to move to SF Bay area next week
A date has finally been provided for the transport of Duet to the San Francisco Bay area. Dean will be flying to Texas this weekend, and the boat should be loaded up on Monday. More details to follow.
Duet and crew safe and sound in Seabrook Texas.
We arrived early in the morning on Saturday, May 27th, for some reason the automatic position updates weren’t working. I’ll be putting together some more information soon. We flew home on Tuesday night, arriving in Reno at about 10:30pm. Good to be home and sleeping in our own beds! Here’s a picture of her where Read More
Today we begin the long passage to Texas
Just a quick update, sorry I haven’t been posting here, but WIFI has been hard to find where we’ve been anchoring. Stopped in at Pancho’s marina and Fuel dock, replaced our dinghy and the main halyard block, Topping off with diesel, gas and water, then we’ll be on our way. Weather is looking good. Please Read More
2 days provisioning, one day sailing, all’s well, having a blast.
View from Cooleys Landing Marina Motoring down the river heading towards the Atlantic. View from our anchorage Tuesday night. Compete with sunset My chair as I sit on deck and write this post
Leaving in five days, just packing things up and watching weather
Everything is pretty much ready, just have to put a final charge on all the rechargeable electronics and pack them up. Dean still needs to pack clothes, but other than that we’re looking good. Satellite position updates are ready to go, as is satellite text messaging and satellite weather updates have been tested and running Read More
Preparations for trip fully underway, anxious to get rolling!
All the plane reservations, car reservations, insurance updates, broker notification, maintenance cancellation, electronics to take for on-board operations (see geek page) are ready to go. Still need to activate the satellite link, reserve the “provisioning marina” and the “destination marina”, and find a source for bean bag chairs in Fort Lauderdale. We’ll have a total Read More
The decision has been made, we’re moving Duet.
Cathy and I have requested the time off work so we can move Duet from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Houston/Galveston Texas area. From there we’ll make arrangements to move her to the San Francisco Bay area via truck. We’re looking at flying into FLL on May 13th, prepping boat, day tripping for a few days Read More
Thinking of moving boat to San Francisco Bay
Duet has been for sale for almost 2 years now, and I’m thinking of moving it to the San Francisco Bay area. Quotes for trucking it from Fort Lauderdale are over $13,000, but almost half of that if we move her to Houston. I’m in the process of planning this, anyone interested in a sail Read More