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It’s a long story, but the bottom line is that I needed to order a new data and power cable for our Simrad AIS transponder.  I hooked up the power cable yesterday.  I didn’t hook up the data cable to the chartplotter because, well, I’m not su…

I had posted earlier that Drift Away is now in Annapolis.   That is not quite correct.  We are in the Maritime Republic of Eastport, and independent micro-nation.  The bridge over Spa Creek that connects Eastport and Annapolis was c…

A brunette goes to the doctor and as she touches each part of her body with her finger she says, “Doctor it hurts everywhere. My leg hurts, my arm hurts, my neck hurts, and even my head hurts!” The docters asks, “Did you dye your hair?”Yes,I did,” she…

Yesterday, Pam and I hied ourselves to Sears and bought a new refrigerator.   We briefly considered buying a marine unit that runs on both 12 volt and 110 volt, but balked because of its lofty $1,800 price tag.   We decided a small …

I installed two Filter Boss systems on Drift Away when we were having all those fuel issues a few weeks ago.  This is a very cool and ingenious system.   If a filter starts to clog, a pressure sensor sends an alarm to the helm station an…

We’re sitting here in Mears Marina in Annapolis.  It’s been raining for the past two days. So what do liveaboards do?  We don’t work, so every day is a Saturday, and when it rains, it’s a rainy Saturday.  Unlike living in a house, there’…

I must be the world’s biggest optimist.  We left Stamford, Connecticut in the middle of September.  The plan was to cruise up the Hudson to Castleton for our wedding in Saratoga Springs on October 1st and then beat feet to Annapolis, arr…

Yesterday was a beautiful day here on the Chesapeake Bay.  The only downside was the considerable wind blowing out in the bay, but we we’re snug at Worton Creek Marina.    This is a pretty desolate place with no town within walking …

We left Summit North Marina on the C&D Canal yesterday.  I’ve often said that we don’t have a boat, we have an apartment that floats.  As liveaboards, we have a lot of shi…. uh… stuff that can fly around unless we secure it, and secur…

It’s not often that I write, but at dinner tonight, I realized something. I’m not the norm. Let me explain, I was married for 20 years and did the whole wife and mom thing…. but I was always yearning for “somethng”. I was the stay at home mom, take t…