Yesterday I got a call from some folks to go help move a couple of sailboats here in the marina. None of this was related to the pending sale, their leases were up and the slips they were using were to be utilized for some charters that the slip owner does every year for boy [...]
I know. After seeing what happened over at Simple Life Afloat, you are thinking that the pending sale of the marina and probable eviction of my poor old fritter ass is a tradgedisastopocolypse. It ain’t. I put myself in this position with the combined effects of all the decisions I have made over the years. [...]
Capt. Fritter
Well, when in doubt, go with those who know what you are doing. A trip to West Marine, actually a couple as the store on Stock Island didn’t have what I needed exactly, and about $60 later and I have a sealed off hole in the bulkhead. I decided to quit fooling around and picked [...]
My cunning plan to downsize into another boat has gone to the bottom faster than the Titanic. I won’t be getting rid of the current vessel anytime soon it looks like. Admittedly, there were just too many variables to make it all happen, but the bottom line is I was trying to do this from [...]
…You best make sure your dock lines are snug. We had quite the weather system move through the Key’s yesterday. From late morning to sunset the islands got anywhere from 4 to 7 inches of rain, depending on which weather bunny you believe. Wind gusts hit nearly 60 mph in some places and there was [...]
But most of the time they stay just out reach, thumbing their nose at you and laughing at your miserable loser of a life. Case in point: I mentioned many a time that the ideal boat for me and the furballs to live on would be a Gemini catamaran. Stable, shallow draft, roomy inside, an [...]
It’s hard to believe that just a week and half ago I was still running the space heater in the evenings just to take the chill out of the boat cabin. Now, the highs for the days are in the low 80’s and it’s time to start thinking about getting the boat ready for summer. [...]
I still have a lot of plans for fixing up and repairing the Fritter, it’s simply a severe lack of funding that is preventing me from getting anything done. Until I get some serious extra cash rolling in, nothing is going to happen to this boat, but that doesn’t stop me from scheming and planning. [...]
Plumbing on a small sailboat like the Fritter is pretty simple stuff. Usually a big water tank in the bow with a fill fitting on the deck. Then water hose running aft to the galley sink and the head. Depending on how fancy the boat, water is pumped either by hand or by electric pump. [...]