After slipping in the snow on the dock and severely injuring myself, the rest of the winter was spent mostly sitting in Patty O’s saloon watching the world go by. We have also been forced to listen to constant tirades of, “you should be recovering…
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For most people, at least in this part of the country, winter is a time of unpleasant weather coupled with lower temperatures. For most people who live aboard full time as we do, this usually means a trip to warmer waters. We are among the…
We were running out of food so after several weeks on a rented mooring at Block Island, we headed Patty O’, our 42-foot Huckins sedan cruiser, back to our boat yard.Once back in our slip, after fueling Patty O’ and Mustard, our 22-foot Century runabout,…
For a couple of weeks after we took delivery of our new washing machine, all I could think about was where we were going to mount it and how. I’d helped my friend Ritchie McGill install some kitchen cabinets he’d custom built on the third…
It’s been a quiet summer, so far, and we haven’t traveled very much. That’s mostly due to the price of fuel and COVID avoidance. The Blonde, my wife, has had her job as an architectural troubleshooter cut back to three days a week but it’s…
It’s been a quiet summer, so far, and we haven’t traveled very much. That’s mostly due to the price of fuel and COVID avoidance. The Blonde, my wife has had her job as an Architectural trouble shooter cut back to three days a week but…
With Mustard, our little twenty-foot runabout finally in the water and the Blonde, my wife, back at her office, things were relatively quiet around the boat yard. There’s a lot of talk on TV news and in the papers as to the number of hurricanes…
We spent a lovely, albeit chilly, weekend anchored up off Flat Hammock, a small islet off West Harbor on Fishers Island, N.Y. The Wind was blowing as well which added to the lower temperature. However we were comfortable, Patty O’, our forty two foot sedan…
The latter part of this past winter has fluttered around weather-wise, like an early autumn day rather than a late winter one. So much so that, unlike other years, we have been unable to take the short weekend trips we enjoy, due to the uncertainty…
There were times this past winter when we wondered if it was ever going to be over. But like every other year, it finally was. In as much as we’re still in isolation due to the pandemic, it’s not a really big deal. My wife,…