A few months ago we started having some battery issues. Specifically, we no longer had anywhere near the capacity we should have. Our battery bank is rated at 465Ah, but we were only getting about 50. We’ve been working with Firefly directly as well as through their distributors and I’m happy to say that we have installed 4 brand new […]
Sailboat racing is an interesting sport. Things move really slowly, until they don’t. A few weeks ago, Shannon and I went out on Nemesis, a race boat that we often race on, for some spinnaker practice. This was in preparation for the Bay Cup I race, an annual two part race out in Galveston bay. We’ve done this race on […]
A boat by definition, is a hole in the water, into which money is thrown. This is the reason why we continue to live and work full time on Nymeria. Justin has worked remotely as a Software Engineer from our house in Durango, CO for a number of years before we decided to start traveling. He was used to getting […]
Of the many sails we have for Nymeria, one is a spinnaker. Its a very pretty, usually brightly colored giant downwind sail. We have never flown it. Honestly we are probably just scared, but also we have no experience with it. Its not a simple sail to fly like many of the other sails we have. This last weekend we […]
