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Six Years On the Boat and Still Afloat

The last six years on the boat have been great for us. In 2006 we sold our house and sold, gave away and then stored what remained of our stuff and moved onto our boat which at the time was a 44 Defever. In the Fall of that year we fell in love with an…

Six Years On the Boat and Still Afloat

The last six years on the boat have been great for us. In 2006 we sold our house and sold, gave away and then stored what remained of our stuff and moved onto our boat which at the time was a 44 Defever. In the Fall of that year we fell in love with an…

Water Maker Rebuild

Technorati Tags: nordhavn,watermaker When we bought Discovery it had a water maker that was constructed out of Village Marine (VM) parts. It’s what they sell as a ‘bare bones’ system. They sell you all the parts in a box and you install it to fit…

Water Maker Rebuild

Technorati Tags: nordhavn,watermaker When we bought Discovery it had a water maker that was constructed out of Village Marine (VM) parts. It’s what they sell as a ‘bare bones’ system. They sell you all the parts in a box and you install it to fit…

Stuck in Ensenada Waiting for Good Weather

Wave height predictions for the northern Baja coast for Christmas week from Buoyweather.com. We’re still in Ensenada, waiting for a weather window so we can head south. Our original plan was to leave December 8th, then there was a family health scar…

Stuck in Ensenada Waiting for Good Weather

Wave height predictions for the northern Baja coast for Christmas week from Buoyweather.com. We’re still in Ensenada, waiting for a weather window so we can head south. Our original plan was to leave December 8th, then there was a family health scar…

San Diego Trip Rant

Last Saturday we had to go to our mail box in San Diego to pick up some new credit cards that we needed. We had already dropped off our car in Tucson so we had to get up and back by taxi, bus, foot, and trolley. This is our story. 7 AM. Taxi ride from …

San Diego Trip Rant

Last Saturday we had to go to our mail box in San Diego to pick up some new credit cards that we needed. We had already dropped off our car in Tucson so we had to get up and back by taxi, bus, foot, and trolley. This is our story. 7 AM. Taxi rid…

Summer Projects

  Some projects came to us, we didn’t have to go looking for them. Our hot water tank stopped working after 15 years of service and was beyond repair, so that became the top priority for that week. A new tank was located in San Diego and after …

Summer Projects

  Some projects came to us, we didn’t have to go looking for them. Our hot water tank stopped working after 15 years of service and was beyond repair, so that became the top priority for that week. A new tank was located in San Diego and after …