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Labor Day 2011.  Finally got enough of the major chores done to take off for the weekend.  The Dalby’s joined us and we sailed from Whitehall Creek down to the Rhode River. The Rhode is only about 15 miles south of Annapolis, but it’s very different.  The shoreline is mostly Smithsonian Center environmental. The trip… Continue reading Shakedown cruise

Now the work starts.  As Lyn says all too often, we’re living “this old boat.” After we trucked our ‘new to us’ Pearson 422, Paperbird, to Annapolis from Houston, we splashed her on the Magothy river and started on the list.  And what a list it is… The good news is that we get to… Continue reading Rehab – and so it starts…

Once the search was on we had to get more specific about what we wanted to find.  A couple things stood out as preferences: – not filled up with electronics that were really great when installed a few years ago, but were essentially obsolete now.  You pay for them.  You’d like to replace them.  But… Continue reading The find

Some years ago, a friend told that the 1st step in going cruising was …  “sell your boat.”  We didn’t believe him.  Actually, we didn’t want to believe him.  But he was right.  Two reasons: 1 – you start saving money.  Without the ongoing expense of maintaining a boat, slip, etc, you start to build… Continue reading The Search