This Rat Sailed

Well, this is certainly not a post I envisioned when I headed out to the boat to prepare for the trip to the Bahamas.  Up until recently I...

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...

Anyone who has ever installed fiberglass insulation has experienced the itchy nature of said material. Well, it has nothing on fiberglass du...

A week or two ago one of the blogs I regularly read did a monthly recap .  In the recap they had mentioned that they spent a couple days as...

Sorry Jimmy, I know that's not how the lyrics go...but we could really use some boat cards. Boat cards are like business cards for cr...

Coming back to the house in Colorado this time has been a very different experience than the previous trips. Yes, it was great to see my wif...

I've been writing a lot recently about the projects I've been working on because...well...that is what I've been up to task-wise...

A couple days ago it was a year since I first left Colorado to start living aboard and fixing up the boat. It started with a three day mara...

Since I got back to Colorado, I've had a few interesting losses. When I started this adventure, one of my hopes was that a more active...

For the next couple months my posts may be a bit more sporadic.  I have returned to Colorado to help my wife with our house.  We have lived ...

The islands outside of Brunswick are known as the Golden Isles and are a reasonably popular tourist and sightseeing destination in the area...

This is a term I've seen a couple other cruising blogs use and I think it is very appropriate. Via this blog I've met a number of pe...

Boy, so much has happened this past year...and for that fact, the past 5 days.  I packed up some stuff (and forgot a bunch of other stuff), ...

It's Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., and we have been busily preparing to take possession of our future home afloat. While I don't gen...

What is it they say about the best made plans?  Well, in the middle of my search  for a boat, life has thrown me a little curve ball.  A few...

Makes sense doesn't it?  If you are going to live surrounded by water, might make sense to know how to swim.  Of course, my wife and I k...

Among all the looking for a new boat, there was also an important step that I made a couple weeks ago.  I started getting rid of things sinc...

It was the last day of our charter of the Catalina 309 and the weather continues pretty much as it has the last couple days.  Moderately str...

It's nice to have some wind to sail...but this was getting a bit ridiculous. Hurricane Sandy was continuing to give us high winds, in th...

Well, if any post does it, this one might just get some comments.  Most of the people we've discussed our plan with thus far have been s...