Thursday, August 1 Day 28 This morning while the mooring field was calm, Phil winched Lorraine up the mast to put the windex on. Going up with the windex in a bucket, it caught on the inner stay right where it connects I to the mast. It was this close (see my fingers together?) to […]
Category Archives: SV Changes
When Phil built the hard Bimini, he put a 3/8″ high fiddle around the top of the Bimini, drilled a hole in each forward corner big enough to put a fitting in there with barbed narrow end that a 3/8″ clear tubing could be attached to under the Bimini. The tubing is long enough to […]
It’s interesting how quickly life can change on the boat, all dependent on the weather. . Tuesday evening I was working on sewing pillowcases from my left over Bahamian fabric. See below. About 11pm, Just after cleaning up and getting into the car to drive down to the dock, a BIG wind came and 1+ft […]
Back in March we wrote about adding the Solar Panels to the boat. How are they working you might ask? Great!!! While Changes was still on her cradle, Phil had them installed and connected to the Blue Sky Controller and the golf cart batteries. It was in no time the refrigerator was turned on with […]
First the Good: Finding people and asking people to sign the quilt was a lot of fun. It gave us an excuses to knock on the boats and bump into people all over the place, especially people who were from Ohio, and Midwest area of the United States and people that had C&C sailboats. Lorraine […]
In the fall of 2010, Phil and I left Grand River Yacht Club and started on our trip to the Bahamas via the Erie Canal and the Hudson River. Something not everyone knows about me is that I’ve been sewing and doing fiber crafts what seems all my life. As an adult, I got tired […]
For anyone that hasn’t been in Pipe Creek, Bahamas, Joe (the Mayor) and Carol on S/V Just Ducky have been there for several years. While there in 2011, I saw Joe put a white pad hanging from the toe rail out to protect his refrigerator from the heat of the sun on the topsides. I […]
On our last trip we only had one way to charge the batteries and that was using the 120 amp alternator on the main engine. We ran the boat engine for about 1 1/2 hours a day and our engine isn’t very quiet so wasn’t always pleasant to listen to. So to try to take […]
Travels with the Dolsens 