San Juan Islands / May 31, 2022

Stuart Island day 2

Today was a mid week work day, so I spent most of the first half of the day working. Then once I was done with work, Marcia, the dogs and I went for a short hike on Stuart Island. Here are some photos from the eastern loop in the state park. The photo above looking

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4788 / May 30, 2022

Visiting the Mausoleum At Roche Harbor

The McMillin Family Mausoleum as built by John S. McMillin as a memorial for his family, and for the things in which he believed. It incorporates symbols from Masonry, the Bible, and the Sigma Chi fraternity, all of which were important to him. He also incorporates his on views of family unity. The structure is

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Dingy / May 28, 2022

English Camp and Then the Orca Show

Today while staying at Roche Harbor we went for a tender trip. Note the dinghy is the 11ft inflatable RHIB that can load on top of the boat, the tender is our 16.5 foot fiberglass hull boat that we bring along, or that the boys bring along. We started out with a short trip around

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4788 / May 27, 2022

Roche Harbor – Memorial Day Weekend 2022

The rain stopped during the night and it has been dry this today so far. Not particularly sunny, but at least dry. Feeling like the small boat in between 2 larger boats. You never realize how tall a Nordhaven boat is until it is blocking your satellite reception. We ended up migrating the Starlink to

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San Juan Islands / May 27, 2022

Roche Harbor – again

We are back at Roche Harbor again, this us usually where we end up on Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends. Those weekends bookend the summer. However we haven’t quite hit summer yet, the rain today looks more like November than May. There is a reason that we keep coming back to Roche, many reasons,

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Solar / May 22, 2022

Solar Panels Back On For The Season

Today with some help from George, we reinstalled 6 of our 8 solar panels for the season. We remove them each winter to keep them from getting destroyed. Where we keep the boat in the winter we have shore power, but where we keep the boat in the summer we do not have any shore

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Wireless Internet / May 21, 2022

Starlink Internet now on the boat

Today I installed the Starlink internet from SpaceX on the boat. and I am getting between 180mb to 250mb download speeds and about 30mb to 35mb upload speeds. Not bad for the floating office. The first thing I tried was WiFi calling utilizing the Starlink wifi. The call was crystal clear with no noticeable latency.

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4788 / May 17, 2022

Starlink Internet For The Boat

Well, I finally made it past the waiting list to get Starlink Internet on the boat. This is the Elon Musk / SpaceX  low orbit satellite project to bring faster internet without the latency issues that older satellite internet providers had. Early last week I got the notice that I was no longer on the

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4788 / May 15, 2022

Installing the hard top – Part 1

Part 1 of installing the hardtop on our 4788 is the front half as shown below. When we purchased the boat 2 years ago we thought we would easily just get new canvas for the boat since the canvas was pretty worn out. After pricing the canvas and pricing the hard top we decided to

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