Randy’s Fish Camp

We have cooled off nicely here in Miami, 70 at night and 80 during the day. I know, it doesn’t sound like cool but with the shorter days of winter people have their furs on. We had our first fire in the fire pit last week (it was actually down in the 50′s for that).

Christmas is fast approaching as is the international sailing season. We won’t get to sail much ourselves, between the high wind of the cold fronts and the hundreds of boats on the bay we will be content to be bystanders (although I am sure we will squeeze in day or two on the water).

I hope everyone has a great holiday season and remember to go easy on the eggnog:).

Trying my hand at a timing belt and water pump on a 2001 Passat. We shall see how it turns out. I did manage to get the 8KW diesel generator running after replacing the rotor bearing. Now to sell it and see if we can make some money. Winter is arriving here in Miami, I can tell by all the northern license plates. Have a good rest of fall.

I’m looking for it…I know it’s here somewhere, let’s see, where could I have stashed it. Oh here it is, between the couch cushions. It’s whats left of my 401K retirement, all $3.25cents of it. Might be enough for starbucks but not sure.

As Jimmy Buffet said “If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane”. Hang in there, hurricane season is half over.

Last trip to Disney was mostly a guy thing, attacking the brew pub and local establishments. This time Carol came along and I got to see some of the things I missed last time. I highly recommend the Mission Space (for those who don’t have motion sickness problems). I felt like I was being launched on the space shuttle to Mars, pretty cool. We hit it during the wine and food festival which was Ok but it added to the crowds, however it did improve the beer selection. Maybe I will put some more pics later. Cooling off as we move deeper into November.

The Crew- Carol, Randy, Jenny, John (or J and J affectionately)

For those watching I am playing with different pics for the header. The latest from Old Stiltsville in the bay. I am keeping an eye out for something that would fit the theme of the fish camp. Let me know of any ideas. Thanks.

The Miami to Ft. Lauderdale race was a lot of fun. It’s actually called the Lime Cup and it is a race up and a race back. Once we hit the wall of the stream about 4 miles out, the water went from the green color to a beautiful indigo blue. Deep stuff.

Slightly confused waves at about 6 to 8 feet made for a bumpy ride north. The trick is to gain the 2 to 3 knots the stream offers you going north and get out of it before you get carried past the finish line and end up in new england. We did good and finished middle of our fleet.

On the return leg we were cooking along until the last 3 mile when we (and others) were becalmed and had to wait on the wind to return. It did, but added and extra hour to an otherwise speedy race back. Middle of the fleet again. Oh well.

The pool party in Ft. Lauderdale was as expected. Those crazy multihull sailors always seem to stand out….hmmm