This Rat Sailed

The previous owner of my boat seemed to have a love affair with that clear household silicone and used it a great many places on the boat.  ...

Well, as I mentioned in my last post, I'm running out of things to try in fixing my deck light. Short of replacing the entire wire, the ...

I haven't done a lessons learned post in a while and, after seeing a post from my friends over at ZeroToCruising doing a play-by-play po...

Remember when I told you about having work done on the engines? I wouldn't blame you if you didn't as it has been a long time.  So, ...

While I've spent some time on boats, I've never lived on one parked at a marina for a couple months straight (our boat has been tied...

I know more than a couple of people that follow my blog are dreaming, thinking, or preparing to go cruising themselves.  In fact one of them...

It's not fun to wake up in the middle of the night to a water drop hitting your forehead, but that happened to me.  The hatch directly o...

In the process of shopping for our future home afloat, this is a very common question on my mind. Of course, the real question I grapple wit...

Continuing with the idea of occasionally posting "things we've learned thus far" here is a tip we figured out while looking at...

I wish I had more interesting things to write about right now...like all the tasks of refitting a boat...but alas we are still searching for...

So, when I left off we were at anchor, but not a comfortable anchor.  Even in this "protected" cove, the wind was coming over the ...

We heard back from the sailing school.  I got a 100 and a 95 on the first two tests and my wife got 99 and 91.  Since anything over 80 was p...