When you live on a mooring or an anchor the dinghy becomes your most important piece of daily equipment, and the choice of how to power your “car” is very important. The place that I am moored (between Fleming Key and Dredgers Key outside of Garrison Bight in Key West) is exposed to the North and North Easterlies in wintertime. This can lead to motoring...
From the mooring field you can see a number of mangrove islands off to the northeast. They are about 4 – 5 miles away and don’t look like much. With the new dinghy motor providing me a little more range I decided to head out there on a pre-dawn Sunday excursion to get an angel for a sunrise shot that didn’t include buildings and stuff in the way...
This was the opening gambit of a series of books I read about an ancient Roman private investigator who’s life was turned upside down by a random event. The thing that struck me about the series was how you can just be going along in life thinking you had a plan and system set up for a while. Then just a random turn of events can change your entire perspective...
Took a little trip around Stock Island on WikiWiki (the dinghy) to see the islands from a water perspective and also to see what it is like to travel a long distance on a little dinghy. The trip took 3 hours to make total and burned up 3 tanks of gas (the internal tank on this little motor only holds a quart). I’ve clocked my dinghy at 5 mph so it was probably...