Today I shrink wrapped the tender. As we get to the end of the short Pacific Northwest summer, and enter the 9 months of rainy season, it is time to start wrapping things up for the season. I guess I should point out some terminology we use. Our dinghy is the 11 ft inflatable that
After our weekend at Roche Harbor, we spent 3 nights at Rosario on a family trip. This was our 37th, 38th and 39th nights on the boat. We had a great time with family that was staying in a house nearby. The drawback is really a couple of things with Rosario. Other than the actual
For our 34th, 35th and 36th nights on our boat, we were at Roche Harbor for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of Labor Day weekend. What a great time, the staff at Roche are mostly top notch and really know about hospitality and taking care of the guests. Hear are a few photos from the
Our 2 nights in La Conner make the 32nd and 33rd nights we have stayed on the boat. Satire: It turns out I did not have to replace that broken autopilot computer, pump and rudder feedback with the fancy new Simrad equipment. Marcia had her own plans. Autopilot by Izzy and Braya: We had a
After the replacement of the Neutral Safety Switch last week we had a great weekend trip to Roche Harbor. Replacing the neutral safety switch was perhaps the easiest repair. Prior to replacing this little switch we had a hard time getting our port engine to start unless it was lined up just perfectly. Here are
We have added padded flooring on the tender. Looking good and feeling good on bare feet. Here are some pictures of what it looked like before, and partially done. The front area which was plywood has been replaced with Starboard and is much stronger and better looking now.
2 nights at Sucia Island, and 1 night at Stuart island makes 29 nights that we have stayed on the boat so far. We started out Thursday evening heading to Sucia Island with calm weather, then Friday the storm picked up with 30 mph winds, and then calm again on Saturday with sunshine, then Sunday
Tonight we were able to get the name branding on the side of the boat. We used our vinyl cutter to cut out a gray vinyl name and a black vinyl name, combined them to look like a shadow, and placed it on the side of the boat. Here is the original look, we peeled
For my birthday the boys got me some new charts for the Simrad. Something I did not even know was available. The charts are really nice as they add much more detail and contour lines. They just pop into the Simrad and you get a second option for how the charts look. I am pleased
This weekend we had our first outing of the year on the boat, 2 nights at Echo Bay at Sucia Island. Not counting the test drives with the mechanic, this is trip #13, also known as Season 2, Episode 1. This was the 25th and 26th nights that we have stayed on the boat. Being
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