I guess boat manufacturers build boats to be used only in warm weather. That’s a valid assumption, I suppose, since only crazy people live on boats in the winter in Connecticut.I’ve decided that cold temperatures aren’t really the problem i…
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Hard Aground.
Well, maybe a better term would be “soft aground”. Its been REALLY windy here yesterday and last night with 20 to 30 mph winds out of the west and northwest. Some reports had gusts here in the Stamford area at 50 mph. …
Whoooooo weeeee its windy!
This 46′ trawler really rocks and rolls in a breeze. When its gusting in the 20s, like it is right now, it REALLY rocks and rolls!I usually spend Saturday mornings taking the two dogs to the off-leash dog park, but this morning I spen…
THIS is why we liveaboard
Its a 150 foot walk from the boat up to the showers every morning, and 150 feet back. Rain or shine, no matter how cold out. Is it worth it? You tell me.This is what greeted me yesterday morning on my return trip from the shower…
Monk Parakeets and Panko Chicken
Today was a good day to live aboard, even in Connecticut. First, it looks like the non-stop snow and cold is history, at least for the coming week. This morning, it was 25 degrees and quickly warmed to above freezing! A good day…
Finally! A warm, sunny Super Sunday!
Its funny. If its July and the temp hits 43 degrees, you’re freezing your butt off. But if its February 6th and you’ve been pummeled by cold and snow for the past two months, its downright balmy. Today was balmy! The day started like any other Sunday… get up, shower, drink too much coffee, and […]
Now its an ice storm!
Cripe, its one thing after another here. This is what I woke up to this morning, a half inch of ice coating everything. The docks looked slippery, but the ramp looked formidable. The big problem, besides not being able to get up the ramp to go to work, is how to get the dogs off […]
Record snow!
Living aboard is one thing if you’re someplace warm with waving palm trees. It’s quite another when one gets hit with snow storm after snow storm. Stamford is just a short distance from New York City. Since weather usually travels from west to east, what they get, we get. NYC usually gets about 20 inches […]
Ice 1, Chevy the dog 0
We’ve had some cold weather down here in CT. Nothing like upstate NY where I come from, for sure, but 4 degrees is pretty cold. The freezing point of seawater is around 28 degrees, depending on its salinity. We’d been pretty much ice free until yesterday when the ice froze to about 1/4″ or maybe […]
Living aboard with pets
I wasn’t sure what was going to happen moving aboard a boat. For Dave and myself it was going to be a challenge in and of itself. Moving aboard with two cats, a dog and a guinea pig, a challenge. We have a 19 year old half Himalayan cat named Smudge, a 6 year old […]
