Isle of Hope Marina is one of our favorite stops along the waterway. It is a beautiful and friendly place to spend some time. Plus there are some real craftsmen to do work on your boat, like Tim Quante and his crew. While here, we continued our interior upgrades by completing the rest of the headliner replacement. While doing that we also upgraded the lighting with new recessed LED lights, as well as insulating the space under the headliners. Tim also replaced the forward hatch in the V-birth, and re-waterproofed the flybridge bimini, painted the transom and replaced the boat name and port of call. That completes all outside painting!
Isle of Hope Marina
The weekly potluck dinners at the marina, brunch and dinner with Diane aboard Kindred Spirit, and eating at Wet Willie's, Driftaway Cafe, Salt Water Grill, Jalepenos (and visiting Cold Stone Creamery a couple of times) have not helped our continual battle of the 'waste' line, but the food is always soooo good! We also enjoyed several visits from friends and family. Our daughter Tammy and her husband Gene stopped in on the way to Tennessee. Our good cruising friends Jack and Diane stopped and spent the night with us on their way to New York. Then our friends Paul and Laurie came and spent the weekend on another friend's boat and spent a day downtown with us. Our granddaughter Sammi, her Mom Christi, and her friend Shianne also stopped for a visit while passing through Savannah.
We ate out so much in the last two months that we are planning a lot of anchoring when we leave here just to help us avoid temptation!!
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Paula's WMD for the horse flies that invaded
Sea Eagle while we were underway to
Savannah |
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| Marsh grass from Tropical Storm Beryl |
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| Does anyone know what this is?? |
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| Mimosa Blossom |
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Rick and Patti Gillis delivering a catamaran in
downtown Savannah. |
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| Is this a baby squid? |
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Blazer gets a new box! Blazer has tried
several beds over the years but has
always rejected them. We got this one free
and she loves it! |
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| Starting work on the transom |
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| Removing old V-berth hatch |
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| Our neighbor's dog "Chevy" napping |
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| New hatch installed |
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Our good friend Sammy looking for
picture opportunities |
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| Green Heron |
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| Woodstorks-synchronized flying |
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| Red Squirrel |
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| Big storm coming!! |
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| Blazer working for dinner |
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| One of the many barge and tugs we saw |
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| Tim and I putting on the new lettering |
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| So far so good! |
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| Not too bad!! |
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| Perfect! |
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| Full moon |
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| Christi, Shianne, and Sammi visiting |
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| Looks like fun to me |
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Moving the boat to the outside dock, getting
prepared to leave the next day |
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| Paul and Laurie visiting! |
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It gets uncomfortable when you have this many
water cops sitting behind your boat! |
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| One of the deer on the island across from IOH |
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| A waterspout that thankfully stayed away from us! |
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| A beautiful sunrise at Isle Of Hope |
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Ben (holding ChewChoo), Gil, Kerm, Pat, Dan & Jingles and
Gene seeing us off as we cast off
from Isle Of Hope. |
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| Joseph waving good bye from Whirlwind as we leave |
Great bunch of photos... enjoyed the update very much!
ReplyDeleteLove you guys!! and extra hug to Paula!! :)
Missing my rollerblading buddy big time!
DeleteI thought Checy the dog on Drift Away went south to Brunswick Marina about July 4th--
ReplyDeleteMaybe you've been at Ilse of Hope since the biggining of July?
Yes, they did. This picture was taken sometime in late May or June.
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