Monthly Archives: February 2014

Mr. Fixit’s Update

By B.J. | Published February 22, 2014

Progress is being made on our repairs, but not fast enough. We’d planned to be in Costa Rica some time ago.  Will was scheduled to spend a couple of weeks interning at Robert H. Perry Yacht Design (and see Bob’s blog in the blog roll) so we booked a flight Read On..

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The “All is Lost” Drinking Game

By B.J. | Published February 13, 2014

Sailors are used to sailing being represented badly in films and on television. Whether it is little things like a Viagra ad with a sailboat that is obviously being towed with the sails on the wrong side of the boat or John Candy’s huge boxer shorts being used as a Read On..

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The Week of Broken Things

By B.J. | Published February 13, 2014

This is the week we discovered a few more major things were broken and needed to be dealt with. And we also paid the price for not addressing some of these things the second we noticed them, and for not being aggressive enough checking things out before we left. If Read On..

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Remote Blogging Update

By B.J. | Published February 7, 2014

My apologies for dropping of on the blog updates for a couple of days, but the internet seems to have disappeared. Oh it’s still there I am sure, I can see it on my phone that I finally coughed up for a data plan last month. But an iPhone keyboard Read On..

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Mi Español es Muy Pequeño

By B.J. | Published February 4, 2014

Communicating in Panama has been the biggest challenge here, at least for me it is what I’ve struggled with more than anything else. “Mi Español es Muy Pequeño” or “My Spanish is really small” may be the most helpful phrase I’ve learned to date.  It at least gets me a Read On..

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Generator Blues, the Refrain

By B.J. | Published February 3, 2014

Well my Gen’rator ain’t working, and I ain’t got me no power No, no my Gen’rator ain’t working, and I ain’t got me no power We done fixed the Stator and its makin’ juice But the heat exchanger’s broken, ready to cut it loose ‘Cause it’s leaking sea water and Read On..

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