Its funny. If its July and the temp hits 43 degrees, you’re freezing your butt off. But if its February 6th and you’ve been pummeled by cold and snow for the past two months, its downright balmy. Today was balmy! The day started like any other Sunday… get up, shower, drink too much coffee, and […]
Now its an ice storm!
Cripe, its one thing after another here. This is what I woke up to this morning, a half inch of ice coating everything. The docks looked slippery, but the ramp looked formidable. The big problem, besides not being able to get up the ramp to go to work, is how to get the dogs off […]
Record snow!
Living aboard is one thing if you’re someplace warm with waving palm trees. It’s quite another when one gets hit with snow storm after snow storm. Stamford is just a short distance from New York City. Since weather usually travels from west to east, what they get, we get. NYC usually gets about 20 inches […]
Ice 1, Chevy the dog 0
We’ve had some cold weather down here in CT. Nothing like upstate NY where I come from, for sure, but 4 degrees is pretty cold. The freezing point of seawater is around 28 degrees, depending on its salinity. We’d been pretty much ice free until yesterday when the ice froze to about 1/4″ or maybe […]
Living aboard with pets
I wasn’t sure what was going to happen moving aboard a boat. For Dave and myself it was going to be a challenge in and of itself. Moving aboard with two cats, a dog and a guinea pig, a challenge. We have a 19 year old half Himalayan cat named Smudge, a 6 year old […]
A bit about the boat
A friend suggested that I describe the history of the boat, its design, original equipment and intended use. I think that’s an excellent idea. Today’s entry will be it’s design and construction. The boat is a 1980 Cheoy Lee Long Range Cruiser. It’s 46’ long, 15’ beam, drafts 4’ 10” and displaces about 50,000 pounds. It cruises […]
The rich and the filthy rich
I’m posting the pictures for my next blog now, and will add the text tomorrow morning.
Cold means condensation, and condensation means wet stuff.
This is our first year living aboard. The spring was cool but nice, the summer was hot but wonderful, and the fall beautiful but cool, again. Winter is a whole ‘nother matter. Drift Away has three levels. The upper level is the flybridge and sundeck, and right now that’s covered in snow and doesn’t enter […]
Beginning of the blog of Drift Away, our 1980 46′ Cheoy Lee trawler.
We (Pam and Dave) purchased our boat in April of 2010. Drift Away was pushed by a small runabout from Bridgeport to Westport where it stayed on a private dock for the summer. We named the boat Drift Away because, quite honestly, we didn’t know if the engines would run. The boat sat on the […]
Moor $tuff 2011-02-10 19:17:00
This morning we had to wait for the fog to lift before getting underway. By 9:30 we were out of our slips and motoring to the Gulf. The entire day was shrouded in haze and light fog – not the best of conditions but good enough to move closer to the Keys. For most of […]
