Robyn's Nest Adventures

Formerly Sailing Seanna.

13 October 2015 | Kingfisher Bay Marina
08 October 2015 | Demopolis, Alabama
08 February 2015
18 January 2015 | Biloxi Mississippi
17 January 2015 | Biloxi, Mississippi
14 January 2015 | New Orleans
22 November 2014 | Guthrie, OK
10 November 2014 | Houma, Louisiana
10 November 2014 | Morgan City, Louisiana
08 November 2014 | Old River Canal
07 November 2014 | Natchez, Mississippi
05 November 2014 | Vicksburg, Mississippi
03 November 2014 | Vicksburg
02 November 2014 | Lake Providence Harbor
01 November 2014 | Greenville, Mississippi
30 October 2014 | MM 14.8 Arkansas River
30 October 2014 | MM 14.8 Arkansas River
29 October 2014 | Three mile above lock four on Arkansas River
28 October 2014 | Island Harbor Marina, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
25 October 2014 | Island Habor Marina, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Update from Seanna

20 October 2011 | Kemah
Lester


We finished the Starboard side chainplates today. That was quite an accomplishment and we are both happy about that. We also me with Steve at Sea Tech systems today and picked up our Packet Modem, our weather fax software, and a book titled " Spanish for Cruisers". The modem will attach to our SSB radio so we can send and receive e-mail on our high frequency radio while at sea and away from wi-fi. We also ordered a wi-fi antenna that is supposed to receive wi-fi signals from up to 7 miles away. Living on a boat has really made us good wi-fi thiefs.

We will start a new project tomorrow, we are going to begin installing all or our electronics. We have decided to enclose a bookshelf on the starboard side. Within this enclosure will be our SSB radio, our VHF radio, the modem, a GPS, and the ever important stereo.

I caught a nice speckled sea trout this evening, so we'll have fish for dinner tomorrow. We are getting better at living on a boat everyday. It's very different than land based living, but I wouldn't trade it for a thing. Our biggest problem right now is with all of the boat projects and supplies, the boat is a mess. I seem to handle chaos better than Robyn. Of course she is used to following me around and cleaning up behind me.

I couldn't ask for a better mate on the boat. Robyn has pitched in and really got into working on the boat. She has also had some awesome ideas to make our life easier and the boat more efficient. She is also the boat chef. She has cooked most of our meals on the boat with limited resources and I think I am still gaining weight. After dinner the other night, she wanted to bake some cookies but the oven didn't work. I worked on it for an hour or so, and the new stove should be delivered any day.

We have an appointment with Triad Marine tomorrow. They are going to re-certify our liferaft. The neat thing will be that we will get to see it inflated, and if the CO2 bottle needs hydro tested, then Robyn will get to actually deploy the raft by pulling on the ripcord.

There's a good chance that we will have Seanna seaworthy within the next ten days or so. We are very anxious to go sailing. Yesterday we took a day off from the boat and went to Freeport Texas to look at their new marina. It is 41 nautical miles offshore from the Galveston jetty to the Freeport jetty. We have decided that that should make a nice shakedown cruise. I hope we can do that before Thanksgiving. Well after a long day working on Seanna, I think I'll go to bed. Good night from Seanna.
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Vessel Name: Robyn's Nest
Vessel Make/Model: Gulfstar 44MC
Hailing Port: Guthrie, OK
Crew: Lester and Robyn Branch
About:
Married since 2007. It has been Lester's dream to cruise in a sailboat for over 20 years. After a cruise in 2012, and learning about the "Great Loop", we sold our sailboat and bought a trawler for a different kind of cruising. [...]
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Life after Seanna, aboard Robyn's Nest
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