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Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 21:30 
We're starting a new sailing message board. It's in its infancy. We'd love to have new sailors or wannabe-sailors or we're-going-to-be-sailors soon. Come check it out www.thekeel.com. We'd love to have you!
Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 19:59 
Some pictures from Saturday. We took advantage of the new green space in between our marina and The Wharf and spread out the main sail. Then we went through looking for rips, tears and wear. It was so exciting afterwards to bend it on (put it on the mast.)
You can see the rest of the photos in the slideshow linked in the post below.
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 18:22 Today we motored over to Driscoll's Boatyard and met Fritz from Pacific Offshore Rigging. He took care of our mast after the last shop banged it up pretty bad. After the nightmare that Koehler put us through, working with Fritz was like a dream.
I feel like Pinocchio. "Look Geppetto, I'm a real boy!" Only it's a real boat now. :) The wonderful folks at Pacific Offshore Rigging are coming back on Monday to finish stuff up and we could possibly be sailing this beautiful boat by next weekend.
The 19 month long mast saga has finally come to end. If you're ever looking at getting work done on your mast, or your wooden boat, feel free to contact us for details on our pretty awful experience with Koehler and our incredibly wonderful experience with Fritz from Pacific Offshore Rigging. We'd be happy to talk to you in detail about both.
To view all the pics from today, check out my Picasa album linked below. The pics look great in full-screen slideshow.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 16:59 I've really been enjoying both of these blogs lately: Ceilydh Sets Sail and Zach Aboard. The blog authors are friends of each other and both live on their boats.
The crew on Ceilydh are currently cruising and it's fun to read up on their adventures. This recent post on how to distinguish between a homeless person and a cruiser made me think of the post I wrote about cute, functional sailing/live aboard clothes for women. As the blog mentions, it is so easy to let yourself go as a cruiser/live aboard.
Cindy writes about her adventures living aboard with her son and husband on Zach Aboard. Eric and I plan to live aboard with our future children, so I'm always fascinated to read about her daily life doing it (the crew of Ceilydh also cruise with their daughter.) Cindy recently wrote a guest post about cleaning on a sailboat on www.domesticdork.com. If you're interested in yet another view of what it's like to live aboard, I'd suggest checking out her post here.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 11:05 Very hot:
We bought this little pot two days and I had it resting on the stove top as I baked at pizza at 425 degrees. My eyes almost poppped out when the glass cracked all at once. It would have been funny if I was really angry and it happened, like I had super powers or something.
This gets me thinking. Somewhere deep in the back of my head I know I'll be cruising someday in some very hot areas of the world. There is no way I'm going to want to use this stove or oven while I'm there. During the winter it is wonderful because it makes the boat toasty, but during the summer, it can make it dreadful in the cabin.
Has anyone ever had any luck with a solar oven? I'm wondering if we could attach one to the transom for outdoor cooking in the tropics. Or maybe we won't cook at all. Maybe we'll just live off of gazpacho and melons.
