On The Hard
Gotta tell ya, folks, nothing, but nothing, sucks as bad as being a boat on the hard. I mean, boats, they’re magic. They are creatures of the water. And just like all other water creatures, they’re...
View ArticleHomecoming
Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at 1203, the s/v Excellent Adventure came home. We got the phone call at 0940. Don Gussler, the harbormaster, said “Just got a call from your Captain; he’s about 12 miles out,...
View ArticleOne Thing Leads To Another
The thing about a boat like ours is that sometimes, it’s actually a lot more like Easter than it is like, oh, boating. The man we bought her from did not believe in maintenance. We knew that up front,...
View ArticleRemodelling the Boys’ Berth
As I’ve mentioned before, the process of really settling into a boat and making it yours can be fairly long and involved. If you happen to have more money than we do, you can often buy a spiffy...
View ArticleDoing This Thing We Do
A reader writes: i’ve been looking for a catamaran for myself and son to live on and learn to sail. do you have any leads for boats for sale? any help you can offer is greatly appreciated. i love...
View ArticleNew Bimini
…cause we needed another thing to happen in the midst of getting ready to leave, right? Right? I’m posting this from the depths of madness. I would have posted it three days ago, except that a plugin I...
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