There comes a time in nearly every boat owners life that they must confront. What should we do with the teak? You can ask 100 sailors what they would do, and get 100 different answers. Answers range from emphatically saying “NO TEAK!” to “You have to lovingly touch up the varnish weekly, its a meditative thing”. Well, we didn’t go […]
There are times that it seems like we are stuck in a loop (cue Westworld theme). During these times I have found that if you look for the small things you might find that life is better than it feels. This week was a good example of that. While it may seem like we were just stuck on the boat […]
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 […]
Were still working our Firefly issues, so this will probably be another data filled quest to find a solution. Since last week we’ve really just been spending a lot of time testing and running “Restore Charges.” Brent has been in contact with his supplier of the batteries, so all we can really do is wait them to respond, and collect […]
We’ve discovered a problem. It seems our batteries have died somehow. “But Justin, didn’t you just spend a whole bunch of time and money replacing them?” “Why yes dear reader, we did.” That’s the most troubling part. The batteries and whole charging system is brand new. Its a head scratcher for sure. So lets dig into it. WARNING: Lots of […]
When we first bought Nymeria, we were given a several sails. We had the main sail and jib that were in the boat, but also a spare main, a storm trisail, a spare jib, a small staysail, and an asymmetrical spinnaker. For us new boat owners this was a bit overwhelming. Why so many, what are they all for? Our […]
Somewhere in the ditch coming home from the Harvest Moon Regatta, we started having some “engine” troubles. The engine temperature was fluctuating. Turns out the engine itself was fine, but the gauge wast working. This started a fairly typical rabbit hole of a repair. We decided to replace at least the temperature gauge and sender so that we could be […]
Feels like we are on an up-slope. Last we updated here, we were struggling with a seemingly endless projects that were either not started or partially complete Including this post it seems, as I wrote this back in July). Unfortunately, that’s boat life. We knew that before we started, but it is tough to really deal with while it is […]
Hard to believe that it has been since November of 2018 that we checked in and wrote on our blog. I have never really kept a diary or any type of travel journal in the past making the blog something that does not cross my mind unless it pops up on my Todoist app or Justin mentions it. And to […]
First, we need to apologize for not updating everyone to exactly what is going on. We did many things over the summer, some very fun, others not so fun. If you look at our position now, compared to the beginning of the summer… well, were in exactly the same place. We unfortunately ran into some engine troubles early in the […]
