While there is always work to be done on Nymeria, and I would like to say we can do it ourselves, we often end up hiring a contractor to do the work for us. I can make a lot of excuses for this, but honestly the biggest is time. Since Shannon and I still…
Our New Year’s Resolution was to keep up a weekly blog schedule to document our adventures, both the celebrations and challenges. In doing so, we’ve written a lot about our recent adventures and the many upgrades/maintenance performed on Nymeria. What we haven’t done is give you all the details and specs on the boat…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
