This Rat Sailed

Hard to believe I'm saying this, but the weather was nice. Time to get this bimini project wrapped up. We start the day by re-drilling t...

On Monday I was able to go to a local boat supply store and pick up the extra gelcoat that I needed.  I don't know if I mentioned this a...

Some days on this project, I just don't feel like I'm making any progress.  Then other days I do.  Today was one of the latter.  Aft...

Work continues on the hardtop.  We patched the last two thin spots in the gelcoat, then found three more and patched them as well.  Apply ge...

In case you didn't figure out from the lack of posts the past few days, it has actually been nice here.  From Thanksgiving through yeste...

Looking back, if I had one thing I would change about this project, it would be shelter from the elements.  The weather has dogged me the en...

I'd love to be writing a blog post about eggs (or any other subject) but, alas, it is yet another post on our fiberglass bimini project....

I can't believe I'm still here in Virginia working on this hardtop project. I knew I was being optimistic with the original theory o...

Sorry for the sparseness of posts recently, but we have been pushing hard to try to get the hardtop bimini built and get out of Virginia bef...

My usual luck with weather returned yesterday.  I think the high may have been 62 degrees at sometime around 3pm and the gelcoat says don...

I read somewhere, don't recall where now, that if you want to work with fiberglass you should get up every morning and look into the mir...

No, I'm not heading away just yet. But I am getting a step closer as I checked the anchor roller repair off the list today. Where I last...

Weather, weather, weather...living on a boat is ALWAYS about the weather.  It doesn't matter if you have been sitting at a dock for a mo...

I don't know where I heard it, perhaps on a number of blogs I read, but the general idea is that cruising is filled with highs and lows ...