Monthly Archives: August 2010
Photo of the Day: Giant Seagull Terrorizes Maine
I was browsing through our Flickr albums looking for good pictures of the Goblin for her for-sale ad, when I found this old photo of a Herring Gull that HB took on our honeymoon in Maine. I thought it warranted … Continue reading
Tonnage: Now With Half the Calories!
WHEN I submitted our application for US Coast Guard documentation, I also submitted an application for ‘simplified measurement’. This will allow us to take advantage of new USCG rules on the calculation of the Picaroon’s tonnage. A vessel’s tonnage–not to … Continue reading
What She Looked Like 10 Years Ago
WHILE Philip’s journalistic integrity apparently prohibits him from posting pictures of the boat in anything but its current rather sad-looking state, I have no such compunctions. Philip and I first met Picaroon, nee Summerwind, in Ventura, CA in the year … Continue reading
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Leaving a Life
SIXTY-SIX days. Nine weekends. That’s how long we have to get everything in order. It’s terrifying. Philip and I have been wavering between, “No problem – we can do this!” and “OMG, OMG, what are we thinking??? There’s no way … Continue reading
Enter the Mizzen
WRITING this in Des Moines, Iowa, where HB and I are taking a vacation. On Monday, as well as getting the fifth coat of varnish on the mainmast, I started work on the mizzenmast. The yard boys hoist it off … Continue reading
Polishing Bronze
NO, no, I’m not that much of a masochist. I’m not planning on shinying up all the bronze hardware–that’s most definitely a fool’s errand. That said, it’s traditional that the ship’s bell be kept polished, and that, at least, I … Continue reading
Farewell Sail on the First Picaroon
ALAN–the old Picaroon’s new skipper–invited us (HB, cousin Stef, and me) for a farewell sail on the her today, so we could show him the finer details and pecularities of this particular vessel. Alan drove well, hardly hit anything he … Continue reading
So Long Old Boat
WE sold the old Picaroon! We’ll miss the old girl. She’s given us four years of great gunkholing on the Bay and hardly ever sank or crashed into anything ever. Happily, she’s now in the hands of a great guy … Continue reading
11 More to Go
MY teachers always told me I was lazy. They were wrong–well, at least they were right for the wrong reasons–the problem was I don’t work for other people. So it’s not really that out of character that I got up … Continue reading
New ‘How-to’
I spent an hour or so last night cleaning up the two winches I took off the mainmast. They were pretty gummed up but otherwise in good shape. Servicing winches is a task I actually rather enjoy, so I thought … Continue reading
