Tag Archives | Cheoy Lee

One of my fellow bloggers, Bob on Istaboa, has a section where he rates marine service.  For my landlubber friends, customer service in the marine trades is notoriously bad.  Shoddy workmanship, faulty repairs, and outrageously overpriced is …

Drift Away is for sale, as you regular followers know. Pam and I love our boat, a Cheoy Lee LRC (Long Range Cruiser) 46 trawler, but we bought some land in the Adirondack Mountains last summer and want to return there to build our little homestead. &nb…

I just had two more photos rejected by one of my photography companies.  Why?  Because the lighting doesn’t look natural.   Seriously.The other night was a typical, brilliant Brunswick sunset.  I decided to take a series of photos t…

So I know many of you wonder, “Dave, exactly what do you do all day?  Your boat hasn’t moved (except for pumpouts) since the Fourth of July.”Good question.  Not much.  When one is retired, one has the rest of his life to do chores. Yeste…

I don’t care if your boat is brand new or 100 years old, there is always something to fix or adjust on a boat.  I’ve been boating for 42 years and have owned seven boats, not counting dinghies and Sunfish.  Some were new, some were middle age…

I had our leaking teak decks fiberglassed over almost two years ago.  All screwed down teak decks leak.  It is only a matter of time until the owner gets fed up and they are either replaced with new, glued down teak or fiberglassed.  I c…

I don’t keep any lists, except for an occasional shopping list.   I certainly never keep to-do lists.   I don’t need one.  Why?   Because I’m great at procrastinating, and a to-do list would only irritate me.  But if I did have…

One thing that Pam and I enjoy about staying in one place for extended periods of time is partaking of the local culture. While it’s true that the US is becoming more and more homogenized at time passes, it’s also true that there are differences.Yest…

I’ve been asked for more photos of the outside of the boat, including the keel and rudders.  The only photos I have are from when I first painted the bottom in February of 2010 in Bridgeport, CT, but here you go.Twin rudders (before painting).Port…

I spent most of yesterday Spring cleaning the boat in preparation for a couple stopping by to look at it.  Dust, wash windows, straighten things up in the helm station, clean the dog poop off the poop deck, clean the master stateroom head, and swe…