Busy, busy, busy! With a flurry of activity, too much to do and too little time, we have finally started the engines on SL and are preparing to head out in an hour or so from West Palm Beach to New Jersey. Four days is the estimated trip time and the seas aren’t predicted to…
After four years, thousands of miles, twelve countries, and countless memories, we are leaving SL to pursue our next adventure, whatever and wherever that may be. One last trip to deliver her to NY and we turn her over to her new crew. So, thanks big, blue gal for the ride. We’ll be posting our…
On the aft deck we have a fantastic door for loading things including some things by crane if we must. It is great for loading all the toys I need to drag out and put back on daily basis like bikes, snorkel gear, swimming rafts, kayaks, paddle boards, power cords, swimming ladders and other assorted…
(Picture: Scooter in the Abyss, Rhonda and Cam assess the scooter recovery operation in Cephalonia, Greece) I really hate it when I can’t say “I told you so,” like in this case… BOSS: “I would like you to go buy two new Vespa Scooters with all the gear, and not those gutless little 150 cc…
Okay already, by popular demand (one person asked if we were still blogging) I vow to give you all the complete details of our last days in the Med. By our calculations we have 77 days left. Of course this is “shipping” so as we used say when I was a broker “AGWOG” (all going…
Fall has arrived here in Genoa and to be honest I don’t think we were prepared. One day we are out in shorts and T-shirt, the next the temperature has plummeted to 10c, it is blowing 50 km/h, and the rain is pouring down. Those who love Vancouver think this is normal, for those of…
You know that the inside of a cylinder block should not look like this. Our starboard generator was feeling a little sad and it is no wonder. Constantly flooded over the years (design flaw in exhaust system) she was finally sick enough to bring in the generator doctor. Cylinder 4 – full of water, Cylinder…
We left Genoa this morning after a month of boat projects and waiting for the owner to return. Not sure where we are going to end up but I promise to make the journey a good one. Arrived Portofino this afternoon. In general according to my Italian Waters Pilot “It has been said that while anyone…
We are finally getting this blog going again thanks to the hard work of Matthew, mechanical engineer, WordPress guru, and patient dedicated worker…Thanks Matthew. If you need Matthew’s details let me know, he needs a mechanical engineering job in Calgary but if you don’t have that available at the moment but need work done on…
Make lemonade or here in Italy make “limoncello”and lemonade. Roo has become brew master of the house which is good for me…96 proof after 5:00 pm and treat the hangover with pure lemonade by 8:00 pm. A couple of Tum’s some Advil and morning comes all too quickly.
