The Life Amphibious

Besides washing both cars, getting the new fish acclimated and cleaning up around the house, we made our last trip of 2009 - hit the beach (...

I ordered these guys yesterday and the FEDEX dude had them here today!!! The kids were stoked to have: A Humuhumunukunukuapuaa, a Porcupine ...

The family packed up and visited the rest of the Velascos in JAX over the Christmas weekend. On Christmas, I got to get in a quick session (...

Punched out early today (heck I was on leave... ended spending 3/4 of the day in the office, but we are really busy - just watch the news) a...

And the final post for tonight... I got boat name stickers made!!!! One for each side, placed high near the bows of the amas - Check it out ...

More boat stuff... We were in Dick's Sporting Goods and in the camping section, they had these LED lights that pull quadruple duty - fla...

Here's the furler at the front of the bowsprit. Picked up a half-twist shackle to replace the straight shackle the boat came with. Thi...

Took a couple of days to get the family reacquainted with Florida (La - the two kids have not really spent anytime there). Cold weekend. But...

The wind shifted from the NW to the W-WSW-SW and dropped from the highs of yesterday to 7-12 today. Got to do a 6 mile downwinder from Pass ...

This guy washed up on the beach where we launch the boat from. Needless to say, the kids were fascinated by the shark.

That was the mission Marlon and Noe accepted this afternoon - Poor Noe discovered that some jellyfish do in fact sting (she stepped on one)....

We had some friends (Ave, Ray and Layali) over from Houston for the weekend - the wind was up (but from the NW) so we took HOOYAH out for a ...

The Gulfport Garage! This is the biggest garage I've had the privilege of using - room for La's van, some boxes from the household i...

No usable wind down here... How do you make constructive use of all the time you don't spend kiting/surfing/sailing? Maintenance. I have...

Here's the tank ready to go!!!