Mother Nature has been kind to us here in southern Ontario because we have experienced the warmest spring in years. The ice has been out of the bay for a while now which meant any work the marina needed to do to get the docks ready could be done sooner ensuring that we could be …
Hello 2021!!!!
Although not a lot has been done since December I thought it was about time to get back to the blog in case you were wondering if I had given up on it. I'm still waiting for updates (and photos) from the marina on the progress of the bodywork and, by my calculations, their time …
Goodbye 2020!!!!
I can't remember how many times I told my children to not wish away their lives when they were growing up. Something to do with Harry Potter/Percy Jackson/NHL was usually coming out in 3 or 4 months or in the summer of the following year so I would hear the inevitable "I can't wait until …
Becky Is Out Of The Water!
It has been a full month since my last post and so I thought it was about time to update the blog. Our boat finally came out of the water this past week and is now in the shop at the marina ready for her complete makeover. We have decided to put off installing bow …
They (whoever "they" are) say that slow and steady wins the race. If that's true I think we have a good shot at winning this one. We haven't done a lot in the way of work on the boat in a long time but that is going to change. It has to or else this …
Canadian Yachting Magazine
This is going to be a very short post ... no photos ... just a story about how our little boat project made it into Canada's boating magazine. If you have been following the blog you will know that we have had a lot of help from someone that I met through the blog. I …
Captain Larry
Over the last year we hit a lot of milestones like not having the boat sink when she was in the water and finding out that the engines actually worked but this past weekend was, I think, the best one of all. Our father was able to make the trip up to Wiarton. We had …
Super Angela!
It became very apparent recently that our already too short boating season was coming to an end. The fact that we weren't being harassed by mosquitoes was the first indication. The fact that Leanne put a sweatshirt on was the second. The temperature dipped at night to the low teens and the sun started setting …
“Family Ties” Untied!!
I am very happy to say that 370 days after taking possession of our boat she finally left the marina .... under it's own power ... with me in control ... and without loss of life or property. It was a great moment. Our friend Jeff made the trip from Goderich for this auspicious occasion …
We Have Ignition…
I know... I know... It has been a while. It's not like I don't have anything to say. It's more likely that I keep planning on writing it tomorrow night...and then tomorrow night... and so on. Eventually you end up finally getting to it a month later. For this post I will let the photos …
1987 Sea Ray Renovation 