This weekend was Matt’s birthday. We went out to dinner Friday with his family then went to the yacht club and hung out with our friends for a bit, then spent the night on the boat. Saturday we were race committee for the John Pitcher …
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The End of February
This will be one of those rare Friday nights we spend at home! It is supposed to be close to freezing tonight and might even snow (hasn’t snowed at sea level here since 1976!) so we decided to stay home and maybe do some house cleaning and laundr…
President’s Day Weekend
First of all, I heard on the news today that the holiday is officially WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY and NOT President’s Day at all! Wikipedia agrees.In any case, we took advantage of the three day weekend to take the boat to Treasure Island. We ha…
Project Update…
This past weekend we finally took apart and fixed our automatic bilge pump. This is an extremely important piece of safety equipment. This bilge pump has a float switch so if water is somehow rising in the bilge the float switch will be tri…
Photos
This is Matt and our friend Joe having a very important logistical discussion before we headed off to Sausalito for New Year’s weekend. This is the boat at the slip we were in at the marina in Sausalito. It was a bit of a tight s…
First Club Cruise Out of the Year
Yesterday, Sunday January 23, 2011, was our first club cruise out of the year. The first Saturday after the third Tuesday is our “Commodore’s Ball” where we have our official “change of watch” from the old board to the new board, then the next da…
New Shower Faucet and Sprayer
We forget to take our camera to the boat so we’ll have to post pictures later. One of the things we’ve wanted to do on the boat was change out the shower head (it is a handheld sprayer) and faucet (to go from two handles to one). I ordered …
Dinghy / Trawler / PGII??
In answer to a question in a comment:Pineapple Girl II is the trawler, an Overseas PT 35. This is the boat pictured in the upper left of the blog. Here is a shot of the name on the transom and another of the sundeck as seen from the flybrid…
Project Weekend
We had a great weekend of getting projects done on the boat.The biggest project was the new VHF. The new VHF integrates with the GPS and knows where we are, it shows the location of nearby boats with AIS transmitters. It has a remote microp…
New Years in Sausalito
We headed up to Schoonmakers Marina in Sausalito on Friday the 31st for New Years. On the way up I made a Chipotle Remoulade sauce and got the flank steak marinated with rosemary and garlic. When we got up there we headed toward our as…
