Sailboat Cruising, I’ve got to keep learning!
Since me and my family live three hours from the ocean, I’m obviously not on my boat as often as I want to be, but I want to keep learning as much as possible on technical sailboat cruising subjects. These are often the ones that involve expensive specialty experts; who are more than happy to […]
Houseboat or something larger- Do it while you can!
Freshwater houseboat or something larger- Jessica made a comment on the blog about owning a fishing skiff for freshwater, but her husband always wanting “a houseboat or something larger”. Hope you don’t mind, Jessica, but your comment motivated me to re-read a few buy the right boat articles I have here at the house, and I wanted […]
Boat Challenges
Been awhile since I’ve been on here, but for good reason, I’ve been working on the boat. The challenges I’m having with the boat are NOT mutually exclusive to a Hunter, but they do seem to be coming on fairly quickly. I can’t blame the surveyor, I won’t blame the surveyor, but I’m a bit […]
2000 Hunter 460
So,,,in mid January we closed on a 2000 Hunter 460, AWB (another white boat) but ours! After all the years of looking and dreaming about buying a boat, it was almost anti-climatic since it was so hectic getting things together to close, re-name and move the boat to the new slip that I was overwhelmed […]
Sailboat Survey Redux
We found out for ourselves how important boat survey’s are,,,worlds most expensive two hour sailboat ride!