Finished prepping the engine for install. Engine mounting brackets are finished, painted , and installed. I built a lifting rig for the engine/gearbox combo that should give us plenty of maneuverability when we go to swing the engine into place We need…
August 2010 Washington DC – Lottsburg VA – Baltimore, MD – New York #25
Houseboat across from us in DC
Have you ever seen a corn field on board a boat???
On August 1, we very reluctantly cast off our dock lines and said goodbye to Washington, DC. Across from our slip we enjoyed such…
Ibiza and Mallorca
23rd July – Ibiza
We moved Mad Sunday around the coast to anchor in Talamanca– a very busy bay in the heart of Ibiza town area – with much water traffic and the perpetual noise of jetskis whizzing around us. We stayed for a couple of days, …
Ketchikan – August 30
After six weeks of poking around north and west of Ketchikan, we motored back into Bar Harbor marina this afternoon. Before pulling in, we stopped at the fuel dock and took on 200 gallons of fuel. I estimate that we had somewhat over 300 gallons of f…
Cocoa Beach – Land of Surf and Beach Bars
Well we are back to living for weekends like most people I guess – we work during the week (Doug in his office and me at the gym and on the boat – I actually had a two day legal project this past week for a former client and it was a total blast. Gues…
Table Project
The table in the saloon was rectangular causing problems when sliding around the settee and making movement in the cabin limited when it was open all the way. The last few months we haven’t used the table…it was just more trouble than it was worth….
Mighty Mississippi River
This is a picture of the Mississippi River from the bridge of our boat. As you can see it is very muddy (kind of a chocolate brown), very turbulent, and moves very quick.This is some of the debris from the river being flooded. We spend our …
St. Louis Missouri
This picture of course is the arch at St. Louis with a view from the water.This is a paddle wheeler that runs the river in downtown St. Louis. There is a lot of boat traffic in this area, barges, towboats, pleasure boats, work boats, you name it …
Detroit/Port Huron/Port Sanilac
DetroitAugust 27DetroitAugust 27After a long day of travel, we pulled into the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle around 5 p.m., with just enough time to chill out, clean up, and put on our “Boogie Shoes” before going to Motor City Casino to see KC a…
High flyin!
Rick and I are now in Port Washington, Wisconsin. It’s about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Our trip out in Lake Michigan down the coast of Wisconsin has been okay, although yesterday got awfully rough late in the day when we went about 60 miles from Stu…
