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
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
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
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.
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
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
Today we passed the courtesy inspection that is done by the Coast Guard Auxiliary. As a free service the will do a courtesy inspection of your boat. To save time, I had most of the needed material out on the table to review when they arrived. This saved a ton of time not having to
This weekend we got away with a late start to one night on Sucia Island. We arrived on the island about 5pm to find the seasonal docks are now in place for the year. They take them out mid October to mid April. It was also a pleasant surprise to fine that there was plenty
Since our trip to Roche Harbor was extended by 2 nights due to it being too stormy to return home, today we start the return trip to Sandy Point. The Gale warning is gone and it looks like we have a nice 5 to 7 mph wind for the trip home. The unexpected extended trip
The owners manual is one of those items that is usually lost by the time the boat gets to 25 years old. There are some great diagrams in the 4788 manual like this one: There are 2 different versions of the manual, the manual and the manual with supplemental. I am just saving these here
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