(This post was written on Wednesday evening, November 11 and updated today. For some strange reason, video was loading really slowly last night...) Rain, wind, rain, wind, more rain, higher winds, shall we count the numbers 20, 30, 40 mph… Yesterday morning, in the calm before the storm, we moved Casstaway from our anchorage at Emerson Pointe across the Manatee River to DeSoto Pointe. We did...

Long ago and far away, we planned to depart Regatta Pointe Marina for the last time and set out for sea-faring adventures yet unknown – a life “on the hook” cruising Casstaway full time and journeying wherever the winds might take us (meaning a return to the Bahamas and then on through the Caribbean). But once again life got in the way, beginning with a nasty pandemic, and sprinkled with...