Yard 2 Yacht

05/09/2025

All good things must come to an end. We have decided to sell Sea Star as we are eager to start another exiting chapter in our lives. It's bittersweet for sure but we are ready to take the next step. We are filled with gratitude and appreciate every one of you for following along by giving thumbs up, commenting and every now and then prayed for us as we have travelled far and wide (at times completely out of our comfort zone). It's been a steep learning curve with many ups and downs and we have learned so much! Thank you for all your support! Please help spread the word so we can get Sea Star sold. She's eagerly waiting for her next adventure

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05/02/2025

We’ve been dreading pulling out of Safe Harbor Marina in Stuart for a month. The constant south winds rolling up the St. Lucie River have created extreme fetch and currents that have been shoving boats around like toys. We’ve seen quite a few struggling.

We picked today to make our escape. Up at six and pulling out of our slip thirty minutes later. The water was glass. Only the second time all month that we’ve seen that.

04/14/2025

Monica and I are tied up at the Safe Harbor Yacht Club in Stuart for the next couple weeks. We installed two rebuilt alternators on the engines yesterday and are waiting to get back and install a clean heat exchanger for our generator before we can leave. Always something with a boat.

But there are worse places to be stuck than Stuart. We love this town and this marina and we will miss it and the new friends we’ve made here when we leave.

03/30/2025

We’re enjoying the last few days of Monica’s parents visit in Stuart Fl. Although boat repairs (always boat repairs) kept us from getting as far south as we intended when we cast off from St. Augustine, we’ve still had a wonderful trip.

If you haven’t been to Stuart we recommend it. We spent three months here a couple years ago exploring and enjoying the small town with our oldest daughter Sara Kristin and later, old friends Tommy and Linda who came to visit. We also made some unforgettable new friends and hung out with cruisers we knew who were passing by the marina. Boat life.

Monica and I plan to stay here for a few more weeks for final provisioning and…boat repairs, before crossing over to the Bahamas.

03/17/2025

Lots of people wearing green today in Daytona Beach to celebrate Monica’s birthday. We’ve been moored here for several days waiting for the wind to die down. Heading south again tomorrow.

10/19/2024

Watching the Blue Angels from Sea Star. Secured to the dock at Lamb’s Yacht Center with Your Home TV friends L-R Dana, Dan, Monica, Sean, Donna and Darin 😀

10/05/2024

Good to know for southbound travelers 😊

Contributing Editor Bob423 offers an update on problem areas and solutions for transiting the ICW this fall when heading south. 

09/21/2024

We ended our time in Portugal in a an enchanting place ❤️

Imagine a place where castles rise majestically from misty hills, their spires reaching towards the heavens. Where fortresses stand as silent guardians, safe...

09/14/2024

Back in Jacksonville enjoying a beer. Trying to stay positive through all this rain 🍻

09/07/2024

We were rescued at sea after a dreadful North Atlantic Ocean Crossing and were brought to land on the Algarve Coast at Portimão, Portugal. Needing some time to process the trauma of the sea journey we decided to stay in Portugal for a few weeks. We spent time in Portimão, Lisbon, and Sinta before reluctantly flying back to the States. We will never forget the wonderful people who we met along the way, the amazing landscape, and the stunning cities we visited.

We were rescued at sea after a dreadful North Atlantic Ocean Crossing and were brought to land on the Algarve Coast at Portimão, Portugal. Needing some time ...

08/17/2024

Exhausted crew of three rescued off the coast of Portugal after 34-days of misery at sea.

What started as a hopeful plan to sail the 61-foot ketch Rosa Del Mar from Cape Canaveral to Spain by way of Bermuda and the Azores ended up as a 34-day life-threatening nightmare. Our leaky boat suffered catastrophic equipment failures from the first day to the last. Beginning the trip by almost crashing into the fuel pumps at Cape Marina when the transmission wouldn’t go into reverse to slow us down. By day two our mainsail couldn’t be hoisted more than halfway up the mast and wouldn’t come down at all. We soon discovered we had no radar, no maps beyond Bermuda, and an AIS system that could receive but not transmit, rendering us invisible to other ships. On this ill-fated journey we had to cut our dinghy loose to save the ship, our transmission was never fixed, causing close calls with other ships and another fuel dock. The mainsail was useless, our navigation lights went dark, our batteries died, and the bilge alarms screamed incessantly that we were taking on water that our bilge pumps refused to clear. Finally, 200 miles from the coast of Portugal, watery fuel silenced both the engine and the generator for good.

Soaked, injured, and sick, we reached our breaking point. Our inexperienced captain, arms raised in defeat, declared, “I give up,” and called for help. The next day, the Portuguese Maritime Authority rescued us, twenty miles off the coast of Portugal.

Exhausted crew of three rescued off the coast of Portugal after 34-days of misery at sea.What started as a hopeful plan to sail the 61-foot ketch Rosa Del Ma...

08/05/2024

Hurricane Debby is giving us a good soaking and a glancing blow here in Jacksonville, Florida. We're taking it all in from our covered slip at Lamb's Yacht Center 😀

Hurricane Debby made landfall in Steinhatchee, Florida before brushing Jacksonville on its way North. We watched it pass from Lamb's Yacht Center. Thank you...