Tag Archives: Boatswain’s Bag

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 →

HB and I did various small tasks today as allowed by the weather. A lot of the big jobs are awaiting the haul-out or parts. HB worked online, checking into entry requirements into the British Virgin Islands (I’d rather be … Continue reading →

IT is not warm here in Annapolis. In fact, the weather has been so far so wet and cold that those warm fuzzy feelings of being ‘home’ have mostly frozen and dropped off. Virgin Islands where are you? Well, we … Continue reading →

BACK aboard the Picaroon, the crew is taking the opportunity to get some work done. The Connecticut River is swollen and full of debris, so we won’t be sailing until Monday. Until then, the booms need a lick of paint, … Continue reading →

WENT for a quick sea trial on the Hudson to test the engine repairs: it works! The engineer took off the heat exchanger and gave it a proper cleaning with acid and stuff and now we don’t overheat. I actually … Continue reading →

FOR those of you not in the mid-Atlantic region this week, count yourself lucky. There’s a stinker of a heatwave rolling through at the moment; I gather Washington, DC is 110°F, and even Cape May, out on the Atlantic coast, … Continue reading →

YESTERDAY was a work day for the Picaroons. Well, maybe not the cats. It was perfect weather for working on deck: sunny, with a light breeze keeping everything cool and the bugs away. HB worked on the decks, which have … Continue reading →

IT is apparent that the engine troubles we have had haven’t been one problem we haven’t found so much as a series of things that each needs dealing with separately. As HB said in an earlier post, the engine overheated … Continue reading →

THE pulpit, bent by the collision with the dock, has been rebuilt and delivered. The fabricator retained the platform frame, which was undamaged and built a new pulpit on top of it. Shiny! I bought new side lights, which needed … Continue reading →

REPAIRING luxuries must be a good sign, right? It suggests that the more critical systems are starting to get to some semblance of repair. Tomorrow, I will begin installing the new water heater, which arrived today. Did we mention that … Continue reading →