We head up to South Florida for Memorial Day Weekend with friends in the area as the US starts to open back up amid COVID-19. Then we begin preparations to ...
S/V Full Send
We head out for fishing day in the keys with S/V Asante and her crew! Install our new ACR AIS system and do some exploring on the dinghy with our friend ...
Follow us on our journey into the origins of true Southern Rock n Roll in Jacksonville and Green Cove Springs Florida as we track down the Lynyrd Skynyrd band ...
We head out to Snipe Point in the keys with S/V Asante and her crew! Getting our spear fishing skills honed, and discover a hookah system that lets us clean ...
We start to dabble with more fishing equipment in the marina to pass the time, and our cruiser friends on their Lagoon 2011 Lagoon 400 - ASANTE show up in Key ...
After making it into Boca Chica Marina less than 24 hours before the lockdown happened, we make the best of our time in Key West. Though the town is dead, we ...
We leave Fort Lauderdale and make our way towards Key West for our first overnight sail with no one else onboard! The Corona Virus stipulations are changing ...
We finally start moving south towards the tropics after our 8 months of repairs and learning about how Full Send works. We motor most of the way down the coast ...
After getting all the sails back, we put the sails back up! Alan's mom visits from Tallahassee and we take a quick day sail with Alan’s mom and Bri, we were ...
Finally after 8 months on the hard trying to figure out how to fix all the problems on the boat, we splash back in the water with no leaks! We both feel ...
Day trip out to shoot at the range in Osceola National Forest and taking that Jeep out mudding on the fire breaks. Music: Rudy Willingham - Silk ...
While waiting for our dingy to get delivered, which is our last big task before getting back in the water, we purchase our new outboard engine and get the name ...
As we wait for a few funds to get transferred before we can buy our new dingy and outboard engine, we sell the old dingy that's literally falling apart at the ...
We punctured the return line while trying to tighten a bolt after bleeding the line of air, so we purchased a brand new return line and installed it. Like and ...
After successfully getting the saildrive back in, it was time to test the engine. We put the heat exchanger back on after testing the thermostat and replacing ...
After waiting 4 weeks for saildrive parts, it turned out the dealer ordered the wrong ones. Reason being, we had a 130S top and a 120S bottom which neither ...
While we wait 4 weeks for our sail drive parts to arrive, we take care of some smaller tasks that need to be done on Full Send before we splash back into the ...
After just days sailing on our world cruise of discovery our sillette leg completely and utterly goes kaput and we're left fighting to get around St.Albans ...
Sailing Pickle Family
We start to tackle the biggest project of our repairs on land, the engine/saildrive⛵️. With the help of a manual and some 🖥 Youtubers who have gone before us, ...
Still not back in the water, we head to Philadelphia to see classmates and friends for the 2019 Army/Navy Game. We take the Friday before to check out some of ...
A very technical episode where we dive into the final segment of the Autopilot (Autohelm) repairs for our Raymarine (Raytheon) Type 2 Rotary Drive. We also ...
After a rough crossing from Puerto Rico to The Dominican Republic, we noticed a grinding in our wheel when the autopilot/autohelm was on. With no issues of the ...
After 💨Hurricane Dorian💨 thankfully missed hitting us, we begin work on painting the bottom of ⛵️Full Send.⛵️ A process that included washing with laundry ...
Our Autopilot (Autohelm) went out back in February when Full Send made the mona passage crossing from Puerto Rico to The Dominican Republic. Not knowing a ...