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  • Dumping 6300 lbs of memories

    Dumping 6300 lbs of memories

    75:00:00 left: come get your personal goody bag! We’ve got 6300 lbs of STUFF to share. We’re in Rockville now until Sunday sorting, gifting, selling, and donating our entire worldly goods. Come visit! It’ll be like an Open House where …

  • 76 days and we have to have crotch straps?

    76 days and we have to have crotch straps?

    Although we had 16 life vests, the safety concious folks running the ARC Bahamas require auto inflatable life vests with built in crotch straps! Don found a sale that just expired at Spinlock, and they honored it two days late …

  • 77 days and we’ll have a screened in porch

    Thanks to some help from Ryan, Amanda and Tom, new management at Yacht Canvas Inc. we’ve ordered stuff to make a no seem netting wrap around the entire cockpit seating area. Now to cut and sew it all… Also got some Textaline for a sun shade on a separate track (flexirail) so we don’t have to swap the no seem net out for the sun shade (thanks @talipreuss) Will it get done in time?

  • 78 days left and Baby’s got a clean bottom!

    78 days left and Baby’s got a clean bottom!

    So the countdown before leaving for the Bahamas has started. Seriously! Our boat has a nice clean new bottom, with two coats of some new paint that should work better in the Caribbean than here in Annapolis (Seahawk biocop TF). …

  • And the MVP is…. 

    And the MVP is…. 

    When you have a stiff seacock, your reverse cycle doesn’t heat, and your cockpit drain puddles, who ya gonna call? Yes, compressed air has many many uses…

  • Winter is so over!

    Winter is so over!

    After being in a bubble for 3 months, the boat wrap is off, supplemental heaters are unplugged, and we’re a boat again!