Author Archives: The Hermes

After a week and a half goes by, we get a call from Diversified Marine.  Do we want to come and inspect the bottom job.  Of Course! So off we go to check out the bottom job. Lookin good!  The guy … Continue reading →

While the boat was in getting fixed, I figured I’d put Gary to work and we’d complete another condo project.  This time we tackled the master closet.  Now this is the first time I have had a walk in closet … Continue reading →

We got the call  on the boat.  It is not going to be $8000, only $1200 to change out the belt and replace the tensioner (whatever the heck that is).  That was good news.   They must have had a … Continue reading →

It is that time of year again.  Time to spend some money and get some work done on the boat.  We have heard horror stories from the people who are in our boat club.  The amount of money they are … Continue reading →

One Sunday, the weather was pretty nice.  Sunny, 82°, low winds.  Let’s take the boat out and check out the Bimini Basin! Now you’ve seen this basin before by land, when we went to the cardboard boat races, so we figured … Continue reading →

So even though we live in Florida, we do have a furnace.  Of course attached to that furnace is our air conditioner.  Down here the air conditioner gets used way more than the furnace.  As a matter of fact, we … Continue reading →

I’d like to apologize to the citizens of Florida.  Everywhere we live they have “highly” unusual weather.  While we were in Iuka, Mississippi, they had such a cold winter the Tenn-Tom froze over, while we were in Orange Beach, they … Continue reading →

Holy Tamoly, it’s the end of August!  Where has the summer gone? One of the things we had scheduled when we got back was a bottom cleaning.  On the boat, not us!  We have to have someone come every month … Continue reading →

We always run up to Minnesota in the summer and winter to visit the family.  This year the main reason for going was because our daughter was having our second grandchild.  The baby turned out to be a boy! 6 … Continue reading →

  We have been doing things around the condo to get it ship shape.  Aside from painting some rooms, and loving and kissing the boat, we had to re-varnishing our front door.  A few of the people have had trouble … Continue reading →