Frederiksborg Castle, a Dutch-Renaissance palace built in the early 1600s as a residence for Christian IV, is one of the most impressive buildings in Denmark with over 80 rooms full of paintings, tapestry, furniture and spectacular gilded decor. After a fire in 1859 destroyed much of the castle, Carlsberg brewery founder J. C. Jacobsen was…
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Yes, We Actually Did Some Cruising!
We had a really good cruising season, Carriacou, The Grenadines and a 6 week Circumnavigation of Martinique. If you like adventure the East coast of Martinique is wonderful.Petite St. Vincent  …
Stabilizer Rebuild
The rod end bearings were getting sloppy, I decide to do the work myself. It made good sense as we were replacing the washer dryer and that made it easier to cut a nice big hole for access under where the washer dryer would normally be. Since we …
Solar is the Way
Well just to update you on the Solar on Sylken Sea, we anchor out or take moorings whenever possible, we boat mostly “off grid”. After 10 seasons we have 4800 hrs on the Generator, so before solar we put 400-500 hrs a season on the Genny. By converting…
More Solar
We also removed everything from the top of the Pilot House, moved the Name Boards, trying to reduce as much as possible the “shadows” on the new Solara Panels. Kirby our painter to a great job customizing the Non Skid pattern to outline the panels. I t…
We Get a Paint Job!
At the same time as we had the hatch removed we had 90% of the topsides from the caprail on upwards painted, all the non-skid redone. It took more than 6 weeks 2-3 guys to do the prep and only a few days to actually apply the final paint. We had all th…
Hatch be Gone!
I was rather delinquent posting this last year, I’m playing catch up!We had the boat delivered without the cockpit ladder to the boat deck, we did not think we would use it and it takes up a lot of space. The unused hatch cover on the boat deck was a p…
Hello All
We had some really cool stuff done to Sylken Sea in Trinidad, very happy with the results so we are again back at Peake Yacht Services for some more upgrades, this time a carbon fibre “Hard Top”, railing modifications, pilot house door painting etc. He…
C-C-C-C-Cold
The Red Head crew woke to 61 degrees in the galley. For this crowd, that’s cold. Dylan and Dee Dee don’t mind, they’re built for it. But poor Dora, with her almost naked belly, is not.
We’re waiting in Morehead City while yet more bad weather passes by. The crew had a bit of excitement when a large Nordhavn pulled down the narrow fairway and into to a slip just down from Red Head.
Dee Dee and Dora made sure they knew who owned the dock.
My Personal Favorite Blog Entry
I loved writing this blog. It was personally enlightening. It may have provided a little bit of entertainment to you, but it showed me that I could regain my creativity. It was gone for decades thanks to a really bad tenth grade Engl…
