Month: September 2021

Time to start exploring! After making it under the Golden Gate Bridge we went to Sausalito. It looked like a nice town but there was no time to explore. We washed the boat, refilled fuel and water, did laundry, and went out to eat (woohoo!)! We found a really nice Indian fusion restaurant. The owner …

Let’s just jump into the deep end! No time to warm up or practice. Let’s get in and go off shore. The boat was put in the water Thursday, Woohoo! Oh, it did not go smoothly, as you would expect by our history. We went into the water at 08:02am, had a leak in the …

The stern tube fabrication was finally completed on Wednesday and it does look lovely! Inside the stern tube goes the cutlass bearing. A tubular piece with rubber bumpers inside that support the shaft to keep it centered. It did not fit. It became a Goldilocks situation! The smaller one was too loose, the next size …