We take the dogs off the boat three times a day. Once in the morning for a potty break, once during the day for a two or three mile walk, and once in the evening for another potty break. We had an interesting thing ha…
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And The Weather Window Is Stuck Shut
We should have gone yesterday. The high winds never happened, at least in Annapolis, and the sea buoy I checked down the bay only showed a few gusts to 17 MPH. This is the NOAA forecast as of this morning…SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FR…
And The Weather Window Slams Shut
We had intended to get an early start and head south from Annapolis today. The weather forecast the evening before looked good, winds out of the south at 5 to 10 and waves one foot. This is the forecast this morning….SMALL CRAFT ADVI…
The Weather Window is Holding
Although it’s blowing like stink here in Annapolis today, tomorrow’s NOAA weather forecast is winds out of the south at 5 to 10, waves one foot. That’s well within our comfort zone, so tomorrow looks like the day we leave for points south. …
Weather Window
For my landlubber friends, a weather window is what cruisers wait for before making a passage. We look for weather that is good for our vessels. For Drift Away, it is our 15-3 rule. Winds no more than 15 MPH and waves 3 feet or less.&…
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to all, to all our friends and followers, and those who just googled us for the first time. I hope you got to spend some quality time with family.Pam and I rented a car and drove home to upstate New York for the holidays. &nb…
Don’t Give Put Bulls Cardboard Toys
I know it’s been a few days since I’ve posted anything here, but not much has been going on of interest. We’ve all been under the weather with colds and so just lollygagging around the boat. I love that word- lollygagging. It so…
Blue Moon, You Knew Just What I Was There For
Drift Away is fairly spacious for a boat, but it’s still a pretty small living space. Our main saloon (for my landlubber friends, it’s one of those nautical terms that no one understands but we use the word anyway. Sometimes it’s also…
25,000 hits? Really?
Our blog has been like the Seinfeld Show, mostly about nothing. We started it eleven months ago, right smack dab in the middle of the winter while living aboard Drift Away in Stamford Connecticut. We were getting record snowfalls and ice st…
Putting up the Storm Windows On Drift Away
Last summer, I ripped off the shrink plastic storm windows I had put on Drift Away to get through the winter in Stamford, Connecticut. Sadly, yesterday I put them back on. We plan on being in Annapolis until after Christmas, and it can get …
