This Rat Sailed

Ice cream is often a special treat when you are on a boat.  No matter where you are, on a warm day it is nice to have a cool treat to enjoy....

If you follow my Facebook page, you know that I finally managed to take the boat out for a sail over the weekend.  But getting to that point...

People from my generation have probably heard the term "house call" but have never actually seen or had one.  It is a throwback to...

One of our goals moving aboard a boat is to live a little more in harmony with our environment and I have been making progress in that regar...

If you remember all the way back in June, I took our boat to a boat yard near Deltaville, VA, to get some work done while I went back to Col...

Since I'm fairly new to this whole cruising gig, I wasn't sure quite what to expect for this leg of our journey.  It was all ICW and...

The cooler temperatures that I've experienced in northern Florida and Southern Georgia since I moved aboard in December seems to have gi...

It has been cold and windy the last few days, so not getting a lot done outside the boat (where much of the remaining bigger work items are)...

So, here we are, our second attempt at a survey and sea trial on a boat that we think could be ours. We arrived in Ft. Lauderdale on what is...

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...