…And here we are again in another place altogether doing a thing we know how to do. The big job this time around is the bottom. Wait…that’s always the big[…]
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Category: Boat Projects
Flash Cooling
Like most folks in these latitudes we were quite literally hunkering down for the dog days when, like a cruel glimmer of hope, the quicksilver took a southern dive! …And[…]
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Sailing; the reason why
…Of course, like all good sailing adventure stories, it has to start out with a project! Right after we got back from India, on our first trip back into Bacon[…]
Read moreJust another day at the office
Remember this?! Over the last three weeks we’ve been working our little tails off (between rain storms and Dena beginning and completing the first draft of her third novel) repairing[…]
Read moreSearching for Ohana
After our calamitous approach to Portland Harbor and subsequent safe anchorage, we decided to dedicate the following day to finding Ohana, the boat that gave us 5 gallons of diesel[…]
Read moreTime Warp
In the last post, we ended in peaceful distress. The next morning, we met Roger, neighbor to Tom, owner of a Bob Perry designed Passport, who offered us his mooring.[…]
Read moreAnd then we went sailing
Wessagussett is a lovely place, barring the wake created when hundreds of plastic destroyers caroom from the Fore and Town Rivers. Fourth of July weekend was topsy-turvy on the good[…]
Read moreWe Quit Our Jobs!
Life on the Wanderer Ball was pretty exciting! Right after that last post, we went to a movie (can’t remember which, so now you know how good it was) and[…]
Read more…To a job well done!
The organic manipulation of the toe rail project is done for the winter! We burned, epoxy-coated, scraped, sanded, rubbed, brushed and stuffed all the man-made organic chemistry we could into/onto/throughout[…]
Read moreBack to Work
Remember way back when? We built a new galley and we gutted the locker on the starboard side, forward of the galley. Our original plan was to put the stove[…]
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