Moving after retirement was something that I never thought we would do. I’d hear of folks moving south and thought “Why would they do that?”. I pictured us living in the Maine woods as we grew older – watching the wildlife wandering through our backyard (or dooryard in Maine-ese). We pretty much were settled on […]
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Just when you think you’re getting a handle on the boat projects….well, you know. I tried our horns the other day and all they did was grunt. Not acceptable. Usually all I have to do is remove them from their mounting below the deck of the bow a…
Living aboard a boat is in many way much different from living ashore. Take yesterday, for example. It was pouring rain in the morning. No one was getting off their boats here at the marina unless, like us, they had to walk a dog or s…
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Just when you think you’re getting a handle on the boat projects….well, you know. I tried our horns the other day and all they did was grunt. Not acceptable. Usually all I have to do is remove them from their mounting below the deck of the bow a…
Our living room in Memphis.My old Fender P bass with sailboat and the ruins of the Tennessee Brewer in the background.It’ll be nice to return home, whenever we do.Nordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs
Memphis Downtown
The FPB 97 has enormous stabilizer mechanisms, sized for support when aground and hitting things more than hydrostatic loads. The over strength mechanism, however, is of no value, and in fact can damage the boat, if it is not properly reinforced. That is where this enormous stabilizer boss comes into play. These fin mechanisms are […]
Back from New York! Tethered under the roof of a covered slip at St.
Petersburg Municipal Marina. It is
indeed a fine place to be.
We are not at the same dock
we visited in 2009 when we stopped at this marina on our las…
February 25, 2013
Back from New York! Tethered under the roof of a covered slip at St.
Petersburg Municipal Marina. It is
indeed a fine place to be.
We are not at the same dock
we visited in 2009 when we stopped at …
After weeks of patiently waiting, all signs were a go. We have been disappointed before, but this time the signs were there, the planets aligned and Neptune was napping. The alarm went off at 5:30 AM and we fired up the computer and checked all four re…
