This past weekend we headed up to Lindy’s family’s houses to unload the ol’ cars. Instead of having them sit around and depreciate, might as well get rid of them. We can always buy more later depending on future current circumstances. My bro in law, Timothy, wanted the awesome...
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Loadin’ the Holiday
After the full cleaning of Holiday and while we watch Hurricane Matthew march up the east coast (Note to self: if up the east coast this time next year, don’t come too far south before October 15th!), we began to load up with provisions. Our thinking is that we...
Recovering the V-Berth cusions
I decided to recover our V-berth cushions. This is where Zach and I will sleep, and the old cushion covers were starting to fall apart. I watched a YouTube video with very detailed, step-by-step instructions and followed them exactly. I bought upholstery fabric from a local marine surplus store for...
One last shake down cruise
So, we’ve spent the last few days removing every single thing from Holiday, opening every single locker, detail cleaning every single surface in the interior of the boat, and vacuuming/cleaning all the interior cushions. We got that done and began to reload Holiday with organizing her to be our...
Watching the tropics and some final prep
As we watch to see the track of Invest 97L and wait for it to go by, we’ve been passing the time tackling some final prep tasks. The above sign struck me as funny and oh so true! 🙂 First, down I went into my favorite cramped space…the engine...
Dinghy Cruisin’
Today we took our dinghy out for some fun and also to test run our recently serviced outboard. For cruisers, if your boat at anchor is your house, your dinghy serves as your car. Most anywhere you want to go (to town for site seeing, shopping, or a restaurant,...
A hard project completed!
Rewind a few days, I had cut the big hole in Holiday in preparation for installing the propane locker I built the week before. There were a few more tasks I needed to complete before wrestling the locker below and bolting it in place. First, I drilled yet another...
Back up the mast
With new wind indicator in hand, Lindy took me back up the mast to reinstall it. Feeling a little braver this time, I took a few more pictures. And the wind indicator worked…so that was good. Wind indicator doing it’s thing.