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It’s official, as of today we are living aboard! In the last four days we have stayed in four different states, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland, but last night we were on the boat! We are still cleaning up some loose ends in the VA house but should be done and completely out today! … Continue reading »

We haven’t dropped off the edge of the earth, we were moving. We’re back in VA moving out of the house and onto the boat. We’ll be back into boat mode in the next couple of days!

We have been talking with Dan from Canvas Creations, http://www.canvascreationsinc.com/, in Annapolis for almost a year regarding our dodger and bimini. We have opted for a hard dodger made of fiberglass and stainless steel rather than the traditional cloth dodger. Dan has been great to work with and after our 24 day delay, today he took the measurements … Continue reading »

Now that the boat is secured in a civilized and safe environment we have had to focus on a few home repairs. We had to fix the back storm door handle, the kitchen window crank, the spare bedroom window, the front bay windows and a broken roof rafter. All mundane non noteworthy stuff but it had … Continue reading »

The boat went in the water last Friday, weather forecast for Monday was terrible but turned out to be perfect. Monday afternoon the Marina started back pedaling on our plan to step the masts Tuesday, I had enough. Long story short I held my ground and the masts went on today! It was a truly … Continue reading »