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 ...
S/V Full Send
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
After 💨Hurricane Dorian💨 thankfully missed hitting us, we begin work on painting the bottom of ⛵️Full Send.⛵️ A process that included washing with laundry ...
In this episode we begin work on filling in and sanding blisters to prepare for painting the bottom. Hurricane Dorian had other plans and we had to prep the ...
In this episode we take our Icelandic friend, Kari, to an American baseball game and play around of golf before sending him off! After dropping Kari off, we ...
Kari continues to help the crew in fairing the keel and rudder before getting on the first coat of Interprotect 2000E. This layer will help act as a barrier ...
In this episode we trouble shoot our outboard engine a little more, finally get the propane working and cook our first hot meal on board in months, and begin ...
The Full Send Boys get their refrigerator evaporator replaced and the compressor refilled before struggling to reinstall it. With the ability to have cold ...
In this episode we obtain a new propane tank to replace our European butane system, hire a new person to sand the bottom, Jason, and attempt to live off of ...
While Alan is in Tallahassee visiting his mom and the doctor for a checkup, Jason installs a new stereo for the saloon. Jason and Leslie also venture down to ...
We get into our rhythm of boat tasks and life in Jacksonville/Green Cove Springs. First up is trying to fill our European butane cooking gas tanks with ...
Alan hires Carson to start sanding the bottom and we find out that our rudder is full of blisters. Jason travels back from Chicago to Jacksonville via Amtrak ...
Finally arrived to Green Cove Springs Florida to haul the boat out! Alan begins working on the laundry list of items to complete before we get the boat in ship ...
We spend a few days in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area before Kruger heads back to Illinois for ACL Surgery. Alan heads north via the Inter-coastal Waterway ...
In this episode we gallivant around Nassau for a day before continuing our journey to Florida stopping for a few days in chub cay while we wait for better ...
We head off north from Georgetown, Great Exuma towards Staniel Cay, but spend the night anchored outside of the picturesque Little Farmer's Cay because of a ...
Heavy winds keep us in Clarence Town one more day, and the following morning we head north and west around the tip of Long Island to arrive in Great Exuma ...