It got pretty cold this week in Southern Louisiana. I guess I should say that it is all relative but it was down in the mid to high 30’s overnight. …
Making Yogurt on Board the boat
We are all fans of yogurt on the boat. We eat it as breakfast with fresh fruit, the kids have it as a mid day snack at times and we …
Be Nautical – How we whip the ends of a line
There is a great pleasure I get in doing something in a nautical way, or in a way that shows seamanship (keep snickering down please). This holds true with treating …
Splicing Anchor chain to Rope (3 strand in this case)
When we bought DreamChaser the anchor chain was connected to an “eye” screwed into the based on the Anchor Chain locker. The survey called out an error in this stating …
How to Varnish – (Part 1) Shooting just shy of perfection
Classic Sailboat = Varnish jobs. Period. End of Story. No way to Avoid it. But that is ok, if it were not something we anticipated we would have looked for …
Visit from Mom & Lisa and Teak Deck (Part 5)
My Mom came to visit us for a few days and we had a blast. We got to meet her partner Lisa after having heard about her for some time …
Great Family Stay-cation in the French Quarter, New Orleans
We have been working hard on the boat, spending lots and lots of time ripping up teak, sanding, epoxying, removing screws and repeating for another section. Between all of …
Teak Decks (Part 4) and a nice weekend Anchored out with friends
Sadly this week started like the last several and that meant I was covered in dust from sanding, chipping, pulling screws, pulling teak, and filling screw holes with epoxy. I …
The Teak Deck Project – (Part 3)
We have been continuing on with our teak deck project. It is a lot of work, it is not terribly hard work, it is more mentally challenging in that I …
The Teak Deck Project continues (Part 2)
You may recall from last weeks post, we started to remove the teak decks from our boat. (See that post here) After pulling the teak off a portion of the …