We haven’t been totally neglectful Beach House but work has been interfering with our boat work a little. Our new projects for Marinalife are coming along nicely. We have quite a few Navigational Notices and Alerts posted that cover the eastern U.S. co…
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Plotting Your Course
In September of 1987, I sailed my 30-foot Hughes Columbia sailboat south to Little River, South Carolina. After a few days of waiting weather, I exited the Little River Inlet and pointed the bow towards Bermuda, some 1,000 miles away. To find that smal…
Calibrating Our Ford Lehman Tachometers In Four Easy Steps
The tachometers for our Ford Lehman 120 have been a question mark since we bought the boat. We have had no way to know how accurate they are, and our cruising RPMs help to determine how much fuel we burn per hour. With the price of fuel today, this is …
The Big Boat Cover-up
One of my pet peeves with businesses in the marine industry is not showing up for appointments when we need an estimate. I can’t count how many times we have called someone locally and said we were ready to spend some money, but needed to have them com…
Our New Outboard Lift and Back Saver
During our cruise along the south coast of Cuba several years ago, I did a really dumb thing. We were Med-moored to the dock at Santiago, next to our friend’s Vagabond 47 and there was a bit of swell running in the harbor. We both decided to set out an…
Is It Hard To Install A Single Side Band Radio?
First, a complete disclosure. I have installed a dozen or more SSB radios as a service technician over the years. But my first two installations were on our own boat and I started with no previous knowledge and only the manufacturers manual. To make ma…
Ongoing Boat Projects
If we seem to have fallen down on our projects, it only appears that way. Since we arrived in Fort Myers Beach, the work on the boat has been constant. That doesn’t mean we have not had time to walk on the beach, go for a swim in the Gulf, or sample th…
Possible GPS Outages
There has been a lot of discussion recently on how the U.S. government could possibly allow LightSquared, an independent 4G LTE provider, to put up 4,600 transcievers sending broadband data services in the L band with such power that could sign…
Ford Lehman Oil And Filter Change
After a 1,200-mile-plus cruise, engine maintenance is not a to do, it is rather a must do. We did take the opportunity to change oil and filters at the halfway mark, but a thorough change of all filters, as well as an oil change, was high on our list. …
Life’s A Beach
We have been here for a few weeks now and are getting settled in as well as learning the lay of the land. I don’t know how we manage it, but we often seem to settle in at a popular tourist location with all of the issues and interesting experiences tha…
