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[…]
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Time 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[…]
Read moreShots and Mocktails
Hook down, boat stowed, New London, and all we want to do is relax for a while. Chill out. But we’ve got to get the ball rolling. So we jump[…]
Read moreGetting her ready to cast off
So, just like that, the galley is done! Ok, that’s a lie… After months of working on this project one and two days at a time we did more work[…]
Read moreSolar power and the 30 mile hose
They invented the way we Americans perceive our seasons here in the Atlantic North East. By they I mean, most likely, Ben Franklin, didn’t he invent “all things American”? …Anyway[…]
Read moreThe Unemployed
We got back to the community- shit, a million years ago- to discover that we were going to have a big (all) managers pow-wow in one of the unfinished 2nd[…]
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