This Rat Sailed

After building the hardtop for the boat, one of the next items needed was a replacement dodger.  For those that don't own a boat, the do...

The last few days I've been going back and forth on several design options for my hard top bimini replacement. I didn't realize that...

For the first time since we bought the boat over a year ago, our entire household is on the boat. The house back in Colorado has sold and ju...

I noticed on my trip down to Brunswick that my starboard engine was having some difficulty waking up in the morning. It would take an unusua...

Yep, another window post. This is taking a lot longer than I thought it would.  I know others that have said they have rebed windows in just...

...all the live-long day.  As I mentioned in my last post, my replacement acrylic windows arrived yesterday.  Also mentioned was the fact th...

The weather finally improved on Saturday and was supposed to be nice for several days, so it was time to get one of my bigger projects start...

Since the beginning of the year most of the "work" I've been doing on the boat falls under the category of learning.  I've...

Other than a very brief period during the sea trial, about a 1 minute stint in the ICW near Palm Coast, and our brief period before the engi...

I've mentioned several times in the past that I've met some pretty cool people since I've started living aboard. I've also m...

After spending the night at Palm Cove Marina in Jacksonville Beach, we get an early start so we can make it the rest of the way to Brunswick...

I'm still catching up on the posts...but at least heading in the right direction now. While my wife and I were both together on the bo...