Author Archives: Dave
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We’re set for a November departure, weather permitting on or before the sixth. We are still plugging along installing, wiring, plumbing, cleaning, buying. I am wiring the gps into the vhf and ssb radios as I mentioned before. I did a rough install just to make sure all worked well then I did a proper … Continue reading
Quick update
A lot has happened in the last few months! Both of us have been working full time, I’m done now (working for money) and Tanya has a few weeks left. We sold my car yesterday which is a huge step toward our goal. We’ll keep one car for our inevitable return. The boat is coming … Continue reading
Back At It
We are both working full time now so my goal of updating the website once a month is no longer. We are still working hard to get the boat ready for our departure but nothing very exciting, it’s all rather mundane. Our foot-operated galley water pump had been leaking and finally broke so I pulled … Continue reading
$500 Spray Paint
The $500 can of spray paint, I’ll get to that later. So I have been working on refinishing the V-berth and it seems to be coming along nicely. I removed the compartment doors and drawers, brought them home, cleaned, sanded and applied a couple coats of polyurethane. The pictures do not do justice; they came out … Continue reading
More Progress
Here we are in another month already; it’s amazing how time flies. We are both working, Tanya full time, me part time. We are making great progress filling the cruising kitty, the boat to-do list is getting shorter and shorter and we still have several months until our departure. Our latest batch of projects…I removed … Continue reading