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Good Luck / Bad Luck

The Good Luck thing that happened was… we went to the boat Sunday to make sure she was still floating and it just so happened some friends on our dock had their diver out cleaning their bottom and replacing their zincs so he kindly got the line off o…

Christmas on the boat

We went down to the boat Thursday afternoon and stayed there until this morning.  We completed a few small projects.  We replaced the burned out light bulb in the small halogen light over the galley sink and BOY what a difference that makes.&…

Year in Review

As the year winds down and we plan our trip to Sausalito for New Year’s weekend (on Pineapple Girl, of course), I have been reflecting on 2010. What a year it has been…Most of the first half of the year was consumed with getting Tiki J ready for…

Boating Updates

We spent Thursday through Sunday on the boat.  We had to work on Friday but I had a work party Thursday night 10 minutes from the boat so we decided to stay on the boat.  Saturday we got one of our friends to come by and give us some pointers…

ARGH

totally off topic. Matt was taking our Honda to get a hitch put on it so we can tow our dinghy.  Now we have to get a friend to bring his truck to the marina so we can launch / retrieve it… so anyway, Matt stopped at a red light and the unl…

Thanksgiving at Angel Island

Santa paid a visit to our bowturkey is in the oven!  A five pound breast with ribs, with an herb rub (thank you Paula Deen / Food Network for the GREAT recipe).The mooring field in Ayala Cove as viewed from the top of the island. That is us on the…

Holding Tank Photos

First, we had to empty the old holding tank.  To do that we had to go to the pump out station.  To do THAT we had to get the dredger to move so we could GET to the pump out station.  We couldn’t get them on the VHF so we drove over there…

Holding Tank Installed

We managed to (mostly) complete the project on Saturday!  the only thing left to do is hook the macerator back up.  This isn’t a high priority for us so for now the outlet for the macerator is capped off.  I took a bunch of photos. …

Big Day Tomorrow!

Tomorrow we are ripping out our 9 gallon holding tank and beginning the process of replacing it with a 30 gallon holding tank.  I HOPE we will be able to finish the project tomorrow but since this IS a boat project, I don’t want to get to wrapped …

Ayala Cove

I need to catch up on my blogging!  On Saturday, October 23rd we took the boat up to Ayala Cove on Angel Island.  It had been raining on Friday and the weekend forecast was iffy but we were bound and determined to go on our trip.  We had…