ICW trip part 2!!!

[jim rosenthal]

Mario, you guys are the best!!! This is a lot of fun to watch and the pictures are great. Why do little kids always catch small fish....I can't figure this out. Hope you post some more from the next stage. Where can I get foul weather gear like that?

If there's a prize for the best thread of the last month this thread wins it HANDS DOWN, folks. This is what having a boat is all about, and we are lucky to share it with you all. Thanks!!!

 

[67hat34c]

When are you going back to Titusville? We plan to be in Merritt Island Friday and Satruday after Thanksgiving. Let me know and we can meet up.

Steve Hierholzer
407 928 5173

 

[MarioG]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the nice words! The Blog page has been a fun way to share our story. It's also going to be our "ships log" for the rest of our travels for where ever we may go. I will post the good the bad and the ugly. So far it been a dream trip.

You can pick up the foul weather gear I'm usuing for under $10 at Wal-mart

As for the fish my boy caught, You would think that with his level of excitiment, he might as well of caught a 50 lb sailfish! Either way, if you ask him to tell you the story, the fish keeps getting bigger...

Mario

 

[MarioG]

Hi Steve!

We are trying to get back up there on Thanksgiving weekend If I can get the time off. If we go, I'll give you a call.

Mario
786-282-4441

 

[34Hatt]

WOW
That was great to read thanks for sharing your adventure.
As for all the work you did pior to get ready WELL DONE
No wonder you have had such a good trip. I knew you had just bought it and was doing the trip and I was wondering that you were doing it with a boat you just bought and didn't have any time running it but was not aware of everything you did, once again GOOD JOB!!

Doing the second part with your kids is great and to think I have friends that say it difficult to do a weekend away with kids! I will have them read your story to show them what they are missing.

As for Yaisy running the boat and DOCKING Way to go Girl. My wife will run the boat but will not go near a dock and has no will to learn!

Will be waiting for part 3 also great pictures!

If there's a prize for the best thread of the last month this thread wins it HANDS DOWN, folks. This is what having a boat is all about, and we are lucky to share it with you all. Thanks!!!

He's got my vote

Dan

 

[MarioG]

Dan,

Thank you! It's not too bad "weekending" with kids so as long as you keep them entertained.

As for Yaisy running the boat, well she loves it. She's learning and mistakes come with the territory. She's not afraid to try. That's my girl.

Mario

 

[Paul45c]

My hat's off to you, Mario; blogging the trip as completely as you have is a heck of an accomplishment, but getting your wife to take on more and more of the helm work is making me jealous! I have a hard enough time getting my wife to take the helm for 4 or 5 minutes when we're way offshore with no boats even close by.

Enjoy that last leg of the trip whenever it comes.

 

[jim rosenthal]

When Blue Note is done in High Point, the plan is to truck her to Morehead City and do sea trials (ask Tom what sea trials mean and he says "Oh,we run out about fifty miles and throw some lines in the water"....okaaay). After that, I have to run her home to Annapolis, up the ICW etc. So, Mario, you've given me something to shoot for on quality of reporting. My crew may not be as photogenic as yours, though

 

[67hat34c]

Dan, you are next.

 

[34Hatt]

67hat34c Dan, you are next.

Oh your Killing me I know, and looking at Mario's Blog well it was good and bad. The bad parts is just me being Jealous. Then I find out Mark took Bandit to Moorehead N.C. So the wife has been wanting to go down to Wilmington N.C for a winter and we looked into it back a year or so ago, her Dad lives there so I have a care taker. Fl is just to far for us with work and trying to make a living . Well winter dockage was just as big as summer here . So If anyone has any suggestion PLEASE let me know

(ask Tom what sea trials mean and he says "Oh,we run out about fifty miles and throw some lines in the water"....okaaay).
Sounds like a good seatrial to me

 

[UNIQUE_NAME]

mario,

what a great trip, something the kids will remember for the rest of their lives.
my wife still talks about when her father took their family of 5 up the hudson in a 28 footer.
i'm sitting at work now and between reading your blog and looking at my walls covered with family vacation pictures, it is going to be a LONG day.

jim

 

[(Nobody You Know)]

Dan,

a very good freind of mine has a 45' slip at a small yacht club in the Wilmington, NC area and he is looking for a renter. His rate is veeery reasonable too. (I am affiliated with this club and it has the cleanest BRs on the east coast!)

If you desire more info please send me a PM.

Capt'n Bill
dyslexic keybaord pc.
"The most important things in life aren't things."

 

[34Hatt]

I sent a PM

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