Monthly Archives: September 2010
Belly Laugh First Thing this Morning
I was sitting on the porch this morning chatting with my next-door neighbor, who also owns a boat (albeit a stinkpot), about boat work. We were talking about how he’d found someone to work on their boat for the ridiculously … Continue reading
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Damp Day
IT’S still raining, so no varnishing or painting today. Instead, I reinstalled the battery boxes–with new hardware, thoroughly Tefgelled–and got the batteries in place ready to hook up. Should have house power soon, touch wood. The rain does have the … Continue reading
FAQs – PART III
THE final installment in the three-part FAQ series, in which our heroine, now hoarse and somewhat tired, answers the last of your questions about her forthcoming adventure. Nominations for more FAQs accepted in the comments section. How’d you think of … Continue reading
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FAQs – PART II
(CONTINUED) Wait! You’re not coming back? But what about your career? Well, there are a lot more things I want to do with this life. We both want to try living in other places — maybe England or France or … Continue reading
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FAQ’s — Part I
MORE and more, I feel like I’m having the same conversation over and over as folks ask us about our trip. So I thought it would be a good idea to do an FAQ “interview” about our adventure. So here … Continue reading
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All We Hear Is . . .
IT’S been raining for the past couple of days, so I took the opportunity to get some paperwork done. USCG documentation is already done, so that just left the ship’s station and operator’s licences for the VHF and SSB radio, … Continue reading
Criminal Battery
WELL, the new batteries arrived today. So, I tried to install them. Obviously, because this is a boat we are talking about, it wasn’t that simple. Firstly, there was the matter of lugging six new Deka Sea Mate AGMs, at … Continue reading
Stuff and Things
THINGS are gradually coming together. The house attracted a lot of interest as soon as it hit the rental market, and we accepted one of the applications we got on the first day it was posted. Most of the final … Continue reading
The House Is Officially on the Market
WELL, it’s official – our house is for rent. We have found a fantastic management company, NEST DC (I totally adore the co-owners Lisa and Jim!), and the listing is up on Craigslist. The basement nears completion – we just … Continue reading
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I Am Le Tired
THIS was going to be a quick update, but I realised this was as much time as I would get for a while. This week I’ve been working on the mizzen, the bowsprit, the toerail (thanks, Marco Crane, you lying … Continue reading
