S/V Roshambo, Stuart, Florida

Yack, what a rape thing cost me a fortune, for whatever reason the last month or so I have been cleaning the thing every damn day. Anyhow the new pump is much quieter I really like it.

We finally made the move today, it was only 6 miles, but man was it slow going. Prop was really fouled, we couldn't get the boat scraped prior to departing due to weather.

So far we love it, the slip is huge, got a great view out the back, lots of extras.

OK, guys it's in the works, the domain is up and the website is coming along you are welcome to check it out, get signed up and give me some feedback. If you try to access the site and can't, it's probably due to the fact that the domain hasn't propogated to your location yet, give it a few hours.

http://www.cruiserschat.com

Won't take me long to get it open, I will keep you posted. It's going to have free blogs, free photo gallery, forums for chat. Lots of good stuff. I will be looking for moderator help, so feel free to email me if you are interested.

Just to give you an idea of my experience, I have owned and operated an automotive forum for over 7 years, I have maintained the site, the servers and driven a lot of traffic to the site. I have been involved with other successful forums and I know how to get the job done, I hope to see you there!

Been having issues with it lately, I believe a lot of the issues stemmed from the bad water when we were at the anchorage. i had to replace the electrode pack. A few hundred bucks we're up and running. I still can't say enough good about the electro scan units I am very pleased with it.

Just wanted to say to everyone in the path of Ike and good luck and we'll be pulling for you. Hopefully everyone makes it through safely and with minimal damage.

I added some photos, I'll try to get more actual photos and maybe all three leaned against the wall.

http://svroshambo.com/v/guitars/

Pretty much just hanging out, its been a windy weekend. I've gotta work Monday, then we are having a bbq here at the marina, kind of a going away bbq since we are moving to a new marina.

We've been bouncing back and forth (not literally as of late) as to which marina we were going to move too. Most marinas evacuate if a hurricane is headed our way, the only one that doesn't is Harborage in stuart, however they are in the crap water of the saint lucie river, we lived there when we were at the Southpoint Anchorage. Anyhow, we really want to move to the Marriott marina on Hutchinson, they have a lot of nice services and a very nice marina.

Again, the videos we shot during the storm are here http://shellbackventures.com/fay I hastily edited them, so they arent great, but i cut out the real bad shots LOL

Anyhow, things have calmed down here and all in all things didn't turn out too bad, we spent the long two days on the boat, I went over 40 hours without sleep, retieing the boat every hour, checking lines for wear, etc, etc.... the rest of the people in the marina huddled in the storage unit building.

All things considered, not too bad. I'll get more updates asap.