This is a first, I’m actually writing this post while on the anchor. The last few months have sucked, to be honest. Both for the obvious reasons, and becasue we’ve not been out sailing as much as we want due to temperature, storms, and/or boat work. Now though, things are finally changing. The first cold front just came though bringing […]
What can I say, it’s been a bit tough to motivate to write for the blog lately. Usually it’s exciting to start writing about whatever adventure we just went on, or the new upgrade we just installed. Even though we’re still adventuring, and installing upgrades, the general mood on Nymeria has not been all that high. Infact, it’s been a […]
2020 is quite a year huh? Well, for us she just struck again. Last weekend I flew to Park City to say goodbye to Lopa. My dog that I have had for most of my adult life. Back in the fall of 2007, a few years after graduating college I had a steady job at the beginning of a career, […]
It seems to be a common thing around sailing communities to have some sort of Wednesday night racing. Here, they have a fairly large fleet of J22, Catalina 22, J24, new RS21 and many other smaller boats. Every Wednesday its likely to see 30-40 boats running up and down the lake. I’ve always wanted to join one of these races, […]
It appears that we are well into the hurricane season with Texas already being hit with Hurricane Hanna. Even though she was a Category 1 storm, she produced sustained winds of 90 mph, a sea-level rise of more than 6 feet and more than 15 inches of rain as she made landfall on Padre Island. With 2020 being a year […]
Growing up in Oklahoma meant that each spring I would be on the lookout for thunderstorms which might bring tornadoes. We would listen for the sirens and either head to the front porch to look around or head to a safe place and hunker down. Upon moving to Colorado, we would watch the weather hoping that a snow storm would […]
Last week, Justin wrote praising me in my efforts to tackle the winches. What he didn’t know was that I was saving the oldest and most complicated ones for last. This meant that I had to recruit him and others to help complete the job. The last and final winch had 2 seized screws. We called on our friend Blake […]
A few weeks ago Shannon started on a quest. A quest of nearly epic proportions. After noticing some resistance in our winches while sailing, she decided it was time for some winch maintenance. This is one of those boat chores that needs to be done, is fairly easy in concept, but in reality is an epic adventure. First was an […]
Last week we had the joy of selling the B*tch off to her new home. If you recall, she earned her name because she didn’t always want to run or keep water out. On Friday, Kraken Sailing delivered our new 10’9″ Aluminum hull Inmar dinghy with a new 15hp Tohatsu fuel injected outboard. She is already proving to have a […]
When we first bought Nymeria, we also bought another boat. It was an 8’6″ inflatable dinghy with a 4hp outboard. We got it used from our friend to use as our “car” on the water. We didn’t know what we were looking for in a dinghy so with this being really cheap, and since it was fully inflatable and could […]
