We made our move in November of 2023. We transitioned to a 50 FT. Beneteau Swift Trawler. We cannot tell you how many great memories we had with our Catalina 445 and we will miss her. We started considering a transition to a Trawler. Lisa was ready – but Kirk, a sailor at heart, had mixed feelings. At the end […]
Salted Rim has a New Look
destination: BVI Vacationers – Beasleys, Keeltys, Olsons
June 25th Our vacationers arrived on Sunday at various times during the day. Great to see everyone and everyone’s excitement about the coming week. Only problem is we were missing one vacationer, Austyn Keelty. Her flight was canceled. She was put on a flight the next day. After much deliberation on how to get her to Nanny Cay the fastest […]
destination – BVIs for Final Weeks
Headed back to the BVIs on June 20th at the crack of dawn – 5:30am departure requiring a 3:30am wake up. Vowed never to do that again either. So many travel lessons learned here. I hope you are paying attention. Made it back to the BVIs by 6PM-ish. AND now it was time to ready the Salted Rim for our […]
destination – Texas (houston/austin)
So we headed back to Texas on Monday, June 13th, for the same reasons as before as we had been gone just about a month: See our granddaughter -Elle; see the kiddos, Lisa do some customer meetings on site and also for us to attend Danny Walsh’s Wedding, where we would also get to see all of our Austin Friends […]
destination – Brewers Bay, Cane Garden Bay and Norman Island
Weekend of June 10th and I promise this is a good read. Kirk is really interested in finding the unspoiled islands that are more remote and quiet as opposed to all of the popular cruising spots. As such, he wanted to check out Brewers Bay. So we get to Brewers Bay right before lunch on a Friday. We cruised into […]
destination – Bitter End, Cane Garden Bay and Norman Island
The weekend of May 27th we decided to do a 3 day weekend and cruise to some islands. Part of our journey this particular weekend was to do a recon of the islands in light of our friends and kiddos who would be coming down for a week of island hopping. We wanted to be sure we picked all of […]
destination – Back to the BVIs
TRAVEL: Love my company and love our wellness days that we get once a quarter. I took advantage of that day and we used it as a travel day and on Friday, May 13th, I know right – Friday AND the 13th we headed back to Tortola. We left Austin for the BVIs by way of Orlando, St. Thomas, Smiths […]
destination – Austin, TX
Kirk and I wanted to get back to Austin on multiple fronts: see Melissa and Jay, Elizabeth and Kirkland; Lisa to see some clients in Texas and we wanted to spend some time with Melissa, who was due on April 18th. On Saturday, April 9th we headed back to Sarasota expecting to be back in Austin the week of April […]
Nanny Cay Marina – Weeks 2 & 3
The following two weeks were some serious work weeks for me and were intense with end of quarter upon me. AND yes, I stayed very disciplined and focused during the work week (believe it or not – just ask Kirk!) Kirk kept quite busy with maintaining the sailboat which is a bit of a thankless job. If you don’t do […]
destination – Norman Island
Logistics from week one nailed down – time to leave Nanny Cay Marina and Explore Norman Island – a short one hour sail across the channel. Headed out early Thursday morning – like before 8am – early for Lisa (just sayin’) Of course the winds were kicking up once we left the marina at 25-30 knots. Remember, we like 10-15 […]