Last year a friend asked is to write a post about cruising with our cat, Baxter.  He is a 6-year-old Maine Coon cat that came into our...

March 31 - April 6: Brunswick, Kissimmee, Tallahassee   The transition period between our sailing and hiking phases is three weeks long. ...

March 23 - March 30, 2024 Brunswick, Georgia Utopia  is now on the hard in a boatyard and we have been residents of Red Roof Inn for a...

March 15-March 23 - Brunswick Landing Marina, Georgia No cruising this week, just working to get ready for haul out. We have spent the...

Fernandina Beach, Florida to Brunswick, Georgia March 10 to 16, 2024   The end of our first season of cruising has arrived and now the...

March 2 – March 9 St. Augustine Most of this past week was spent in St. Augustine, with an arrival on Saturday (3/2) and departure on...

2/25/24 Titusville (MM 778) to 3/2/24 St. Augustine (MM 878)   Three main parts to this week's blog post: Cruising Observations...

Feb. 18 to Feb. 24: Vero Beach (ICW Mile 952) to Titusville (ICW Mile 879)   It’s been quite some time since I did my last system series...

(ICW MM 1013 to ICW MM 952) February 11 - 17, 2024 So, I have mentioned in prior blog posts that there is a great book and podcast called...

February 4 to 10: Miami area, Palm Beach area & side trip to Howey-in-the-Hills I really, really wanted this week’s post to be rather...

Boca Chita Key to Miami (January 28th -February 3rd) Well, here I sit in Dinner Key Marina in Miami for the next few days while Sondra...

January 21 - 27, 2024 At the moment, Utopia is sitting in the cool little Boca Chita Harbor, located at the northern tip of the Florida...

Buttonwood Sound to Barnes Sound (January 14-20) We had a fun week in the developed portion of Key Largo at Buttonwood Sound and are now...

January 7 - 13, 2024 This week we took the inside route to the Channel 5 Bridge to Buttonwood Sound in Key Largo!  Jimmy has wanted to...

Key West to Marathon, Florida   “Deferred Maintenance” is a word that I have heard a lot over the past several months uttered from other...

Happy New Year! Today Jimmy and I reflected on the fact that it was a year ago today that we departed on Utopia from the Apalachee Bay...

There have been a few changes to our plans this past week, mainly due to weather conditions.   Looks like we will be spending Christmas...

December 11th to 16th We left Glover’s Bight at dawn on Tuesday to make the 40-mile sail from Ft.  Myers to Marco Island after waking up...

Summary of our trip from Punta Gorda to Burnt Store, Useppa, St. James City and Glover Bight.

November 16 - 30, 2023 Utopia has left Punta Gorda after being anchored there for two weeks. Punta Gorda was selected to make it easy...