On Monday, November 15th, we were finally allowed by our boat insurance to enter Florida, but not until noon, when we began the short hop to our first stop, Fernandina Beach Harbor Marina. Upon arrival, we were instructed to head inside…
To Cross or Not to Cross
In our travels Anna and I have experienced so many wonderful things, we have made great friends and seen some wonderful towns, but what we cherish most is our increased knowledge and experience at sea. With the departure of Ed, Anna and…
Living Al Fresco…six weeks on my own. Part 1
Canadian chilli sux!! After the departure of my delivery crew I had a lot of time on my hands. I was still at Paradise village and several projects aboard were calling my name. Fisrt was finding a new propeller for the dingy motor. The origional o…
Dorade vents
Painted and installed dorade vents on the bow deck. These are a traditional style nautical vent that includes a water trap in the base so they can still allow dry fresh air into the boat when it tis wet on deck. Especially nice in the tropics. Went wit…
Making crooked boxes
These are the boxes that form the frames around the port lights. As the title implies they are not really square, but more of a parallelogram in shape. Each set of port frames has a slightly different angle that was determined by following the line of …
It’s Over.
AT LAST it’s time to begin lining the hull compartments. When we bought the vessel all those years ago we naively thought we’d be embarking on a houseboat conversion straight away. To say that we were wrong about this possibly qualifies as understa…
Cistern
I swear, in total I’ve spent more time on this toilet than almost any other single thing on the boat.It’s forever giving problems, and usually at the worst possible times.Captain Bob, who travelled with us a while on the Wanderbird, says he is going to…
HELLO OSCAR!!!
Franklin Matthew Diercks (a.k.a. Oscar)Born 5:52 pm Wednesday 12/1/20108lbs. 11oz. and 22″ long
We have crossed into Louisiana
It took us about a month to cruise almost the whole coast of Texas (minus an unfortunate incident that held us up for about a week). And with weather being what it is, we moved slower than we thought. However, there is something to be learned in all of…
Dark & Stormy…
It was definitely a dark & stormy night. We knew some wind was coming and it had been raining off and on. At 3:30 am we awoke to a lot of movement and 40 knot winds. We got up to add some more lines and fenders and found that 1/3rd of one of the sp…
