Prop Nuts

We Almost Lost Our Prop!

Note to self:  Don’t let the dinghy painter get tangled in the prop. It seems like a pretty basic premise, and yet, that’s exactly what we did.  What started as a quick little sail out to Middle River for the weekend, turned into yet another project to fix.  As we were trying to anchor in […]

Alternator

First Overnight Anchorage and Alternator Autopsy

First Overnight Anchorage A couple of months ago we finally got to take SVRO out for an overnight trip.  We left Friday after work and headed south along the San Joaquin River.  The wind was blowing maybe 3 knots so we weren’t able to sail, but the motor was running fine.  Our batteries were at […]

spearfishing

Spearguns and Spearfishing

A couple of weeks ago Rich finally got to do one of his favorite things – spearfishing.  My cousin won a dive trip with Guardian Charters in San Diego and invited Rich to go with him.  I convinced Rich to take his GoPro so I would have some video to edit.  He’s never dived with […]

No work

Work has come to a screeching halt lately. My sister and her family came to visit on Saturday so Rich and I spent Saturday morning cleaning up the boat. We hadn’t cleaned the outside of the boat since…it rained last? Shameful.

Weekend Update

This past weekend was the 4th of July.  As usual, we didn’t do too much.  Friday morning we took Fat Suki to Korth’s Pirate Lair for breakfast.  Surprisingly it only took us about 20 minutes to get there and we got up to 17 kph.  Way faster than we thought our little dink could go.

Treasure Hunt

One of the big differences between living in a house and living on a boat is where stuff is stored.  In a house it all makes perfect sense.  Clothes are stored in the bedroom closet; bath towels are stored in the linen closet; and food is stored in the kitchen.  It sounds pretty logical, right? […]

White Trash Bimini redux.

As you may have seen from previous pictures of our boat, we have an interesting way of keeping the rain off of Ramble On.  $25 tarps from Lowe’s, a couple of 10′ lengths of PVC pipe, a shit-load of bungee cords, and a handful of zip-ties.  Hey man, we live in the Delta and it […]

Making the step up

Jeni and I don’t have kids.  At least not in the traditional, “all-American, buy a minivan, ballet, soccer, baseball practice, work ’til we’re 65 to pay off  their college, vote everyone else a tax increase, do it all for the children” sense of the term.  That’s probably one of the biggest reasons that we’re able to attempt something […]

Sextant is Not a Dirty Word

In today’s world of electronic gadgets and do-dads, I think very few, if any, people rely on the sextant for navigation.  If there are any hardcore, back-to-basics, navigators out there that truly do use the sextant, good on ya.