Category Archives: broken things

Trip to St. Martin – Busted Backstay Edition

By B.J. | Published February 3, 2013

In hindsight we agreed that to date, it was the most terrifying thing we’ve dealt with on the boat so far. Something in fact that most people hope never to deal with. Everything started out according to plan. We took some Stugeron Thursday night and went to bed, no seasickness Read On..

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Frozen Out

By B.J. | Published December 27, 2012

The best best laid plans of mice and me oft go awry… Although I’ve not yet gotten the blog caught up with our physical location (I think I left you somewhere in the USVI National Park on St. John) we’ve been back in the British Virgin Islands for over a Read On..

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Rhymes with "Generator"

By B.J. | Published October 19, 2012

A larger and considerably cleaner generator than ours. So does anyone have a good phrase for me that rhymes with “Generator Oil Leak” because I’m thinking Bad Poetry in the Epic format may be the only way to make this entertaining. One of the reason that our blog posts have Read On..

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Cradle Cove, Islesboro

By B.J. | Published August 16, 2012

NEWSFLASH!  Maine…has fog.  Sometimes lots of it.  Pictures of it are, for the lack of a better description, Not Very Interesting.  Unless it is far off and doing cool things on the horizon, or rolling down upon you, which is does seem to do here. Really, there is fog coming. Read On..

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Cocked-up…

By B.J. | Published June 24, 2012

Or so say our friends across the pond when something is messed up a fair amount.  Bollocksed-up works too, but sadly there is nothing on the boat called a “Seabollocks” because it sounds like there should be. Getting the boat hauled on schedule and getting the bottom painted all proceeded Read On..

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Parts is Parts

By B.J. | Published November 24, 2011

One of the many items on the to-do list is to assemble a list of spares.  In some remote parts of the world, if you can believe this, Federal Express does not guarantee delivery by 10:00 a.m. next business day.  In fact I’ve experienced just that in the wilderness of Read On..

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Time & Sobriety

By B.J. | Published August 14, 2009

Both of which were apparently in short supply the Provincetown vacation…so I’m way behind on updates. What a nice vacation – great fun traveling with friends. Cuttyhunk was a pleasant stay for us, we got to walk around a bit and have a relaxing visit. Provincetown is, well altogether different. Read On..

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So other than that how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

By B.J. | Published July 7, 2009

Until some time this afternoon I was fairly convinced that we had utterly destroyed the spinnaker this past weekend. While there is little evidence to the contrary as far as my sail maker is concerned, we have set the cruising spinnaker on this boat and on our last boat several Read On..

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Some Proof that We Are Progressing

By B.J. | Published June 30, 2009

So if the equanimity with which one approaches impending disaster is an indicator of your maturity and skill, perhaps we are progressed from the clueless newbies of so many years ago that were baffled by something as simple as a blown fuse or burned out pump. Last weekend we were Read On..

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Evil Alternator: 2 Stubborn but Dense Boat Captain: ZERO

By B.J. | Published June 16, 2009

The reports of the submission of my alternator to my will have been greatly exaggerated. For a brief, glorious moment or three it charged my batteries. I was euphoric, I had not seen 30 Amps of current coming off my alternator since I don’t know when. Of course it was Read On..

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