Our A/C is on the blink again. The brand new seawater pump I had installed a few weeks ago in Isle of Hope burned out. The A/C tech here said it was undersized and only had enough capacity for the smallest of my three A/C compressors.&…
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Security: Bocas Attack
July 8, 2012 – Portobelo (Panama)Violent attacks on boats… you think it’s not really going to happen, not to anyone you know, and certainly not to you. And then, one morning, you hear the report on the VHF or the SSB… as we did this morni…
Stay Cool
It should come as no surprise that conversation around here and amongst our extended wandering friends is dominated by the heat – the effects of water and air temperatures on us and our machines. Everybody is hot. Everything is hot. So let’s think cool, clear water. And to co-opt the signature phrase of the most interesting man […]
Stay Cool
It should come as no surprise that conversation around here and amongst our extended wandering friends is dominated by the heat – the effects of water and air temperatures on us and our machines. Everybody is hot. Everything is hot. So let’s think cool, clear water. And to co-opt the signature phrase of the most interesting man […]
Confederation Basin, Kingston, ON – 7/7/12
We woke up this morning to rain but as it turned out, only lasted until noon. We had not done laundry other than a few things that won’t wrinkle in our boat combo unit since Rouses Point, NY before we entered Canada the first time so we had quite…
Lets keep our fingers crossed
and hope all goes well next Saturday for the in water test but barring the freakin’ thing sinking we can consider our ole’ boat………….Now we’ll have ’nuff money to order the winders for the new boat! :-)Almost all the ingredients are on hand for …
Seems like home
We hated to leave the spit but it was time to meet up with our friends again. So off we went to Von Donop Inlet on Cortes Island. There were several boats at the anchorage but of our friends, only Nick and Gail on the sailing vessel Destiny were there…
Now the Hudson
We departed Stamford for Croton on Hudson, a town in Westchester County on the east side of the Hudson approximately 44 miles north of NCY, as soon as the waxers completed their work. Our route took us west down Long Island Sound to the East Rive…
Marine Air In A Heat Wave – An Update
The past week has seen the new Marine Air system working in a heat wave, with Wind Horse devoid of awnings or even hatch covers: a worst case scenario for sure. Our previous Marine Air system consisted of a pair of 16,000 BTU self-contained compressors for the great room, a 12,000 BTU unit for the […]
Dow’s Lake Marina, Ottawa
Big display set up by the locks to celebrate the war of 1812.The flight of 8 stair locks to get from the Ottawa River to the Rideau Canal. You can just see the Chateau Laurier on the left.The falls where the Rideau River meets the OttawaLeft Montebello…
