06-18-2022, 02:37 PM
We just purchased a 2020 53 Fly in New York and are on our way to our summer storage location in Florida. This boat is our winter home travelling Florida and the Bahamas but is stored during hurricane season.
She replaces a Grand Banks 47 Europa we owned and mostly lived aboard for 8 years, traveling some 20,000 miles and 2500 engine hours in the US, Canada and the Bahamas.
Quite a change in vessel to grow accustomed with, but we now have almost 1300 miles behind us, with only 200 or so of those miles in the ICW. We have been blessed with favorable weather and seas outside in the Atlantic and have really enjoyed the trip thus far (well except for high diesel prices). Still learning all the electronics, etc. so may be posting some questions for Garmin, Yacht Controller, wi-fi networks, cell signal boosters, and various other systems.
We hope to meet some of the other owners starting next November when we get back aboard.
Tom and Julie
She replaces a Grand Banks 47 Europa we owned and mostly lived aboard for 8 years, traveling some 20,000 miles and 2500 engine hours in the US, Canada and the Bahamas.
Quite a change in vessel to grow accustomed with, but we now have almost 1300 miles behind us, with only 200 or so of those miles in the ICW. We have been blessed with favorable weather and seas outside in the Atlantic and have really enjoyed the trip thus far (well except for high diesel prices). Still learning all the electronics, etc. so may be posting some questions for Garmin, Yacht Controller, wi-fi networks, cell signal boosters, and various other systems.
We hope to meet some of the other owners starting next November when we get back aboard.
Tom and Julie
2020 53 Fly
CAT 12.9L-1000, straight shaft
Gulf Coast Florida
CAT 12.9L-1000, straight shaft
Gulf Coast Florida
