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 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 …
What to do with a Teak Deck Sailor…. (Sung like drunken sailor) – Teak Decks (Part 1)
From the day we bought this boat almost 2 years ago now, we have contemplated, thought, discussed, debated, researched, and waffled on what we would do about the teak decks. …
How to replace a Perkins 4-108 starter in a Sailboat
This weeks blog is the continuation of the challenges we had last week with replacing the starter on our Perkins 4-108. We ended up getting the wrong one when we …
Starter Problems – Diagnosing and removing the Starter
In last weeks blog and youtube Video we talked about anchoring out with our friends at Brady Island. It was great fun, but as I think I mentioned in that …
Brady Island Anchorage and cruising the bayous in the dinghy
We were invited by friends and marina neighbors to go out and do a little swimming just behind Brady Island. We were all going to take the boats over and …
10 Tips from a 12 year old on Cruising with Kids
So many families that want to cruise and have kids think that it is not possible. We hope that it is and at some point we would like to be able …
Sailing to New Orleans – Part 6
In the last blog post we had made it to the Harvey lock and into the Mississippi River after dark. The idea of going through the ICW, and even more …