Tag Archives: Boatswain’s Bag

FINALLY! After, er, a while, we have a dodger. Well, we have the top of a dodger. HB spent a Very Long Time working on the dodger (canvas spray hood over the companionway) while we were moored in Christmas Cove.  … Continue reading →

Water is a bit of a scarce resource, here in the islands. Typically you can expect to pay for any water you take on–at Soper’s Hole we paid 25c per gallon. So it makes a lot of sense to have … Continue reading →

HB’s been bugging me to write something for the blog, so here’s a quick word about what we’ve been working on while in Bermuda. The water tank vent problem is fixed. I added about four feet of hose, which I … Continue reading →

IT’S sleeting outside right now. In October. Blech. On the positive side, we got a bunch of stuff done in preparation for the trip south. I wired the radar, GPS and depth sounder, which all works and is marvelous. The … Continue reading →

FIRST, because there are minors reading this (not miners, though: wireless is shite underground), I have to apologise abjectly because I said a Bad Word last post. Kids, using language like that is huge and genius not big and not … Continue reading →

YESTERDAY, Becca hauled me up the mizzen mast in the bosun’s chair, in the rain, to install the new Garmin radome. The radome is the disc-shaped object halfway up the mast that actually does the radaring: it contains the hilariously … Continue reading →

I’M running low on post titles about working on the boat in preparation for the voyage south, clearly. As yesterday was stressful, today was progressful (not a word, Firefox’s squiggly red line assures me – should be). The weather is … Continue reading →

THE Picaroon was splashed this afternoon, and we are tied up to the work dock awaiting the Mike the Mechanic to install the new engine mounts, and other things. The to-do list is getting steadily smaller, although not fast enough … Continue reading →

TOO busy to post to the blog until today, in fact. Today we got an unwelcome break caused by inclement weather, so here’s your update. The damage from the rock in Oyster Bay was minor–a few mm of glass ground … Continue reading →

1000 miles and we’re ten yards from where we started. This afternoon Mike the Mechanic from Port Annapolis Marina came out to the Picaroon where she was anchored in Back Creek to look at the engine. The good news is … Continue reading →