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...

I know it has once again been a while since I made a post.  Sorry, but it has been difficult to find time or the motivation.  Then when I h...

We departed Beaufort for an overnight sail to Southport just before 4 PM in order to make the Beaufort bridge opening (saving us a little ti...

This is certainly not the post I thought I would start writing just a few days after returning to the boat. Our brand new Smartplug ch...

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...

If you have been following along on my Facebook page, you already know we have made it far enough north to satisfy our insurance.  Unfortun...

We have decided to hang out in Southport until Memorial Day, mostly waiting for more favorable winds to continue our trek north (the winds b...

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...

As I'm sure you are aware, I am trying to move my boat from Brunswick Georgia up to the Chesapeake bay area before the end of the month....

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...

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...