HAPPY NEW YEARHere’s wishing everyone a wonderful 2012. We hope it is a happy and prosperous year. We would like to thank all of you who have been following our blog. Up to this point, we have had 19,645 hits from 14 di…
Anyone Can Learn To Knit
I left my knitting long enough to have a hot bath and get ready to go to my sisters for tonights festivities, I returned to Danny showing interest in the craft. Perhaps there is a lingering hint of sheep and barns lurking in the fiber. In any event s…
COMPLETION
The word, “finish”, according to Merriam-Webster, has many meanings. Among them are, “to come to an end; to terminate” or “completion”. Finish is also a verb meaning to come to the end of a task or undertaking; to bring to completion o…
COMPLETION
The word, “finish”, according to Merriam-Webster, has many meanings. Among them are, “to come to an end; to terminate” or “completion”. Finish is also a verb meaning to come to the end of a task or undertaking; to bring to completion o…
New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve morning is bright and warm and dry. A picture perfect day. We started with a quick workout and then breakfast outside on the cockpit. Halfway through we realized it was the first time we have ever had New Year’s Eve breakfast outside…N…
Chesapeake Seals and Alligators?
We take the dogs off the boat three times a day. Once in the morning for a potty break, once during the day for a two or three mile walk, and once in the evening for another potty break. We had an interesting thing ha…
Running the Engine
Here is a brief video of our second test run of the engine. This is a low miles 1993 12 valve Cummins 5.9 engine that was rescued from a wrecked truck. We stripped it down, added a water-cooled turbo and exhaust manifold and gave all the externals a on…
Fuel, Water, and Oil
This has been a very busy month of work on the boat, though you wouldn’t know it from my lack of blog postings. I’ll do two to catch up… filled up the day tank with enough diesel to test the plumbing in preparation to run the engine. This resulted in…
Interior – Starboard View
My brilliant architect brother Matt, has been asking and asking for interior plans of the living space for our new Aries Too, while I have been begging and begging him for design advice. Thank god for his fabulous taste, and his ability to nail the is…
Pacific Panama
After a month and a half in Shelter Bay Marina for new bottom paint and forward hatch, we made our Panama Canal transit to the Pacific side on Dec. 15. Our good friends from Mammoth Lakes, CA Bev and Bret Bihler came with us as line handlers stayed for an additional 10 days. The weather continued to be cloudy and rainy but the transit itself was very interesting. Voyager ready for the canal transit Although we had scheduled to make an afternoon transit, things were changed after the pil…
