Keeping water out of your boat has a lot to do with how well you have bedded the hardware and ports. Read 5 ways to use Butyl Tape to serve this purpose. We use it extensively with great results.
Site Seeing in Destin Florida with the Grand Squids
We decided it would be a nice thing to do over spring break to take the girls for a little bit of a vacation. We opted for a trip to …
Visiting Melbourne Australia
It has been busy for me at work and traveling lately. The latest of this proof is last week when I posted about a trip that had come up for …
Rigid vs Flexible hose for Drains
There are many debate amount boaters and do it yourself lovers of good old boats. One that I have heard many times has to do with plumbing and whether or …
The Crew Checks out a local Cemetery
One of the things we like most about this adventure of Semi Cruising / Living aboard / Still working, is that we don’t typically stay in one place long enough …
Leaking Temporary Port Repair
If you recall, I had put in a temporary Lexan port when the port window cracked. I decided to make a temporary repair because we had intended to replace the …
Serious Flooding in Louisiana, Evacuating the kiddo’s from the boat
This week I was out of town for work and Deb was telling me that the weather forecast was calling for 11 inches of rain. Our biggest concern was whether …
Organizing the Galley & Making Smoothies
This week was all about getting the galley a little bit more organized. Our Grandkids, Chasity and McKinlee came to live with us, and this meant that we needed to …
The Plan B – the “Oh Crap, we have a problem at sea” repair manual
OK, seriously tongue in cheek here, but when in an emergency and at sea, there is a sad amount of truth to the concept of fix it quick, keep it …
The Crew of DreamChaser go to a day of MardiGras parades
I feel like we haven’t been doing any boat projects lately. It is just travel, fun, travel, fun, work, travel, fun, repeat. Not complaining, please understand, but as I put …