Not even a scratch. Although a dumpster did pass by within inches, we’re told. A picture is worth a thousand words. Cummings Beach.Cummings ParkDrift Away survives. Irene sped up to 25 MPH, which had her past u…
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This couldn’t look worse.
Hurricane Irene is forecast to make landfall at or near Stamford Connecticut right at high tide, which is about a foot and a half higher than normal because of the new moon. The hurricane computer models show it pretty much clobbering us here in …
It’s looking worser and worser.
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday Irene was forecast to nail Cape Cod. While Irene is still a long way off, the computer model tracks are starting to converge in my area. This ain’t looking good for folks in North Carolina who will be among the …
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
The latest on Hurricane Irene from the U.S. Navy is that it’s going to brush the Outter Banks and then slam into New England. They’re saying the bulls eye is Mystic, which is about 90 miles east of us, but of course between now and then any…
One month to go. Work work work.
The clock is ticking and the project list isn’t getting shorter fast enough.The latest project was to remove the goofy spinning windshield wiper thing from the center window in the helm station. Drift Away has only moved about 15 miles in t…
Trawler Trash?
I subscribe to many cruising blogs and live vicariously through others. I just read an interesting blog by one of my favorites, Dick and Libby’s Tarwathie Cruising Log. Dick wrote about “Cruisers as Travelers” and a Wikipedia search turned …
Homemade LED light fixture
Sunday was a very dreary and rainy day. New York City got an amazing 7.7″ of rain. Despite my best efforts to carefully seal the new foredeck hatch and two side deck port lights, they leaked like crazy. The plywood t…
A Very Sad Day on Drift Away
Smudge, the 20 year old, old lady cat died last night. For the equivalent of a 140 year old woman, she was in remarkably good shape until just a few months ago. Her kidneys started to fail, and her thyroid was so messed up that she at…
Round and round we go
If you recall my previous blog, I mentioned removing the center window on Drift Away and bringing it to a Norwalk Repair Place that does things like repairing hatches and port lights. They called today to tell me that they can’t do the job….
Spending Money Like a Drunken Sailor
The money taps are open and boat projects are well underway. We’re figuring on a departure date of somewhere around September 19th so we can hit slack tide at Hell Gate in the afternoon, so that gives us only five weeks to get ship shape.&n…
