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Joanna

Skipper: Bruce Barker (member #128)

Last updated: February 18, 2001 @ 10:36 CST


Editor’s Note:  V/MYC member Bruce Barker has departed on a solo voyage aboard Joanna, his 25’ MacGregor.  Following are a selection of pictures that Bruce has sent us to post on this website.

Bruce Barker aboard Joanna

Joanna - In front of Pelican Island, Buttonwood Sound, Florida

Bruce Barker – Aboard Joanna

 (I shave every month or two… when I shower!  J)

Joanna – In front of Pelican Island, Buttonwood Sound

Joanna showing boom arm used to lift motor onto the inflatable.

You can see the boom arm in this photo.  It was made to lift the motor down into the inflatable.  When I use it, I hook the main halyard to the end of it.  I use the boom vang for lifting.  You can see it hanging down from the end of the boom arm.

Bruce and Joanna in Tarpon Basin off Key Largo, Florida.

A fellow cruiser came by and took this picture for me.  (My legs hadn’t seen any sun in twenty years!)

Crowded anchorage outside Dinner Key Marina, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida.

Here you can see the 3” flexible hose I used to bring the wind down into the bilge to help dry it out after the keel bolt leaked.

Everglades National Park,

Paradise Beach (very secluded)

 

Swordfish got me eye…

Barracuda got me hand…

Shark got me leg…

The sea got me heart!

This is where I sealed the leak around the keel cable fitting.  I added two more tubes of caulk a couple of days later.

Joanna at the county park dock, Black Point, Biscayne Bay

She looks as tired as I felt after grounding and beating through the storm.

What is this thing?

Playing ball with ‘Mr. Wilson’, a coconut I found.

Joanna is in the background.  My finger was wrapped up from closing my yachtsman’s knife on it.  It ended up getting infected before I finally got it healed up.

Biscayne Bay, Florida

Ready for the storm.

 


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