Ships Log

January 31, 2021

After the recent autopilot replacement, there was a hole in the dashboard left by the removal of an obsolete panel. To fill that hole…

January 28, 2021

The heater in the pilothouse has been really rusty and has never worked since we purchased the boat. Today I was able to replace…

January 24, 2021

While our mechanic has the engines torn apart replacing all the things that have been neglected by the previous owners, we have our own…

January 21, 2021

For months, docking has been challenging. We don’t like to leave the pilothouse doors open when we are underway due to having dogs onboard,…

January 18, 2021

Even though many of the original incandescent lights had been converted to LED lighting, they had not been done very well, and they still…

January 11, 2021

Once we get this all cleaned up and finished, that wraps up our initial Simrad upgrade. Which included the new NMEA2000 connected VHF radio,…

January 6, 2021

The Off Leash 2020 crew shirts arrived today. The shirt company that I picked this year did a much better job than the company…

January 3, 2021

Since winter in the Pacific Northwest is not the optimal boating time, with wind gusts yesterday to 59mph, it is a better time to…

December 31, 2020

Many aspects of 2020 were very unprecedented, and there were some big challenges for the world, and for us personally as well, but overall…

December 5, 2020

An important part of boating is having the appropriate boat music. Being the off season, I figured it was time to build a new…

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