By Lily Fuchs Yesterday I did boat chores. I polished the stainless steel in the cockpit. Dad said I could either do school or boat chores. I said chores. So I helped him with the sail washing and cockpit polishing. We wash the sail by putting it on deck and scrubbing it fold-by-fold. My favorite […]
We awoke this morning to an ant invasion. There were easily a thousand ants busily streaming down one of the docklines, across the deck and right into the boat through the open hatches. We have been killing mercilessly but more emerge from little cracks in the woodwork as we get the exposed ones exterminated. We […]
Whenever you get an invite to visit a sailboat in some foreign harbor, you can expect “the list.” Boat parts are somewhat hard to ship overseas, get lost in transit and, after a long wait, subject to a lot of fees which can be avoided if someone packs them up with a couple of bikinis, […]
By Lily Fuchs 2/3/2015 The pic’s are of the jib and me climbing the jib. The jib is like a bigger version of the mainsail but in front. Dad has painted the gas tanks and I have to put FOXTROT, and pretty designs on it. I have been doing rainbow loom purses in my free […]
We have been home a month today and I have only a handful of pics to show for it. We have been busy though. Randall went with Jake and Danny to Taos to drop Jake off for his Western Walkabout. Lily and I stayed home and played at the pond with the rowdy crew who […]
Yesterday, we were hanging and waiting the shipment of our two new boat bikes. It gave Randall a chance to take the outboard apart and try to fix the reluctant pull cord. It took much longer than expected because the coil spring came flying out once the thing was apart. But two hours later, it […]
More to come. These are taking some time to upload and we are headed down to the French Quarter. Hopefully, can get some pics up tomorrow.
The oil pan on our diesel engine was badly rusted and had a couple of small holes on the side after the previous owner had a salt water cooling pump leak that ran down the side of the engine. I knew it needed replaced, but kept putting it off, thinking it might heal itself or […]
“Can I go fishing?” We hear this request daily. Lily would like to catch something, sure, but a fish-less stretch is not an entire loss. She likes casting and casting for 30 minutes is, by itself, sport enough. Occasionally she gets the plastic worm to sail where she wants it and a minute of success […]
Tristan Jones is a well known among sailors for his fascinating sea stories. He claimed to have logged more than 450,000 nautical miles on various boats. Biographers and readers have argued a bit over this number but I think it’s more controversial that we don’t have an accurate count of how many bowls of burgoo […]