tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75005817442253715112024-03-20T03:02:49.048-07:00From OJ to the OceanThe rambling adventures of a boy, a girl, a large dog and their crazy life living aboard a 43 foot sailboat in New England.
"The usual chaos of living well..." Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-57487076268887271932014-12-08T12:13:00.000-08:002014-12-08T12:17:43.603-08:00Missing: The Crew of Zephyr <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, not really...but in terms of blogging, yes. So...where have we been? Think that Johnny Cash song "I've Been Everywhere" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've been to Boston, Eastie, Harwich, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">New Orleans,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">New Castle,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Waterbury, Duxbury, Provincetown, Plymouth, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Portsmouth, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Scituate, Osterville, Katy, Baton Rouge, Bar Harbor DC,Warren, Westport, Woods Hole, Annapolis and...now...good 'ole Kit-ry Maine! Home! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd love to say we'd sailed all those places,it would be quite incredible if we sailed to Katy, TX, but we did sail to a lot of them. This summer was full of change some good and welcome, some not so good. We enjoyed amazing times with family and friends and even had a 4th of July escape in our "Land Yacht" OJ to the Vermont mountains - thanks Hurricane Arthur. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or the many nights spent with a cockpit fulla friends, tunes on the stereo and laughs...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or our eventful summer cruise to Scituate - Provincetown - Duxbury and beyond where we lost the dinghy in a blow and got towed TWICE! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or our sail north to Portsmouth when we lost the dinghy - once and for all...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I will write all about these different summer adventures especially since my view out my window right now is of a frozen tundra, complete with ice caking all trees and my cockpit full of an 1" of ice. I like to relive our happy summer times to help me get through the endless Maine winters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Basically, the take-away is that in mid-September we sailed back north to Portsmouth/Kittery and we couldn't be happier with our decision. Overall, Boston just was not our cuppa tea. The marina we chose wasn't ideal for living aboard. The constant and vicious wakes from all the boat traffic made for a VERY uncomfortable and constant roll while in our slip. Zephyr would take the waves and wakes on her starboard beam and then would continue to violently roll back and forth for 4-5 minutes The commuter ferry boats start around 5am and from 4-6pm it was also VERY rolly, then on the weekends, it was virtually impossible to be aboard comfortably without getting tossed around the boat getting bruised up. It's probably a great marina for those weekend warriors but for us liveaboards who cook aboard, shower aboard and sleep aboard day in and day out it's just not doable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Add to that, that about 6 weeks into living in Boston, we also started getting very homesick for the lifestyle the Seacoast provides. We missed walking into town for dinner, we missed taking Toby to gorgeous Seapoint Beach on the Maine coast, we missed trees and trails and wild and natural spaces. We missed local foods, local beers, small markets, gastropubs, smoothie stores -- you know the yuppie stuff. Apparently, we're yuppies and we're just fine with that! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We missed the simple, quiet, relaxing lifestyle that the Seacoast provides. I mean there's a reason there's a mass exodus from Boston every weekend in the summer to Portsmouth & Kittery- it's vacationland! </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Seacoast is where we called home for 8 years and there is something quite wonderful about the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">people</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and the life we've built here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once we thought of going into another winter aboard, we couldn't imagine not having the great community of friends (more like family) we made at Badgers Island Marina. That sealed the deal to head north (but really though - who winters in Maine!?) The decision to move home was not a hard one to make, even with the commute Tim now has. It came down to where did we want to be when we weren't working? Where did want to wake up on a Saturday morning? Who'd we want to surround ourselves with to survive another harsh, cold New England winter? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Living on a boat isn't the easiest lifestyle choice and so it becomes really important that the world outside the boat is comfortable, easy and relaxing. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If we'd cast of our lines for points far south and were leaving on our cruising adventure I think it would've been a different tale but because we're still tethered to land for work, family commitments, life, we just simply wanted to be 'home'. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Until we are cruising full-time and have the ability to sail onto a new port whenever we want, it's vital that we like the port we're in. It's no different than picking the neighborhood where you're going to buy a house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And really...Let's face it the Farrells are just not city folks! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we're the prodigal Seacoasters whom have returned. The summer away gave us great clarity in what it is we want in the next steps of our life and it helped to solidify for us where we're meant to be. It helped to clear our vision so we could reimagine what the next phase might look like and gave us a chance to really take an honest look at our feelings, hold them out in front of ourselves and explore them, own them. It gives us a chance to slow down, take a deep, long breath and realize - we've got it real good. It's time to soak it all in rather than just keep planning and dreaming away today. So that's what we're doing soaking it all in, feeling very grateful we have a lifestyle that allows us to try on new things and return if they don't fit, grateful we have family and friends who support all our choices and grateful we have eachother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we bought Zephyr we didn't fully inspect the chain, rope and anchor system as good as we should have. Last spring as we were prepping we pulled all the chain and rope out along the dock and our boat neighbor, a licensed captain, alerted us to some serious corrosion on the links of the chain - AKA NOT SAFE! We knew then that we'd have to upgrade the chain ($$$) and most likely the anchor as it was quite clearly undersized (35# for 43' boat). So this spring's big project was a full upgrade. First we bought new chain. Now, for a second, imagine logistics involved in buying and moving aboard 150 feet of 3/8ths inch chain...imagine...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luckily, there's a fantastic place in Portsmouth for ALL THINGS steel, chain, shackle, chainplates and more - Fastener Warehouse. We wanted BBB 3/8ths chain, the good stuff, and we went with our little Jetta Wagon to go pick it up - laughable. Lucky for us and our struts they only had 100' and we wanted 150' so they had to order it and deliver it to the marina - the Jetta thanked us! I can only imagine loading and unloading 150' of chain! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The half barrel of chain arrived unfortunately at low tide. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do the math - 300 lbs. of chain + a steep graded ramp = yea, not ideal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The delivery guy at first thought he could do it, looking at me and saying, "You game to anchor me down?" Response: "NO!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Delivery Guy: "What's the worst that could happen, it will just fly down and off the dock."<br />Me: "Ummmm...Yea, let's not lose $800 of chain to the bottom of the river. Let's wait 6 hours!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So we had the chain and we had the rope, now we could do the next phase of the project- marking it all so when we deploy the anchor we know how much we're putting out. When anchoring there's a ratio that you use depending upon the depth of the water you're in - typically it's 7:1, then you add the freeboard or height of your boat from the surface of the water, the ground type, the winds, the forecasted winds, the tide differential and you get the amount of chain/rode to deploy to have the proper scope and angle on your anchor for it to dig in deep. The more chain you have the more weight you have along the bottom of the ocean and more secure you will be, hence the 150' of chain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did HOURS of research on the best way to mark your anchor chain and rode, HOURS. The advice and methods are innumerable - everyone's got a way, some super complicated, some super easy. I took to my ever reliable and fantastic womens' sailing Facebook group, Women Who Sail to ask. These ladies are the BOMB they are women all over the world living on boats, sailing across oceans, raising boat babies, generally rocking at life! The advice was awesome and so were the anecdotes - disagreements among husband and wife on the method, painted feet, highly technical methods that were forgotten and more. Over 30 responses! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First we painted links and rope yellow. We used bright yellow rustoleum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One Yellow Painted Link = 100's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2 Painted Links = 200's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3 Painted Links = 300's </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Had to be sure not to get the dock yellow - though we did leave a small mark on the concrete, Jill & Tim's mark at Badgers Island Marina for life! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Then came the multi-colored zip ties. We used pink, orange, yellow, green, blue (in rainbow order). Here's the method we used:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Pink Ties starting at 25-feet, then at 50 feet, then at 75. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Orange ties at 100, 125, 150, 175</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Yellow ties at 200, 225, 250, 275</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Green ties at 300, 325, 350, 375</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And at 10 feet we did an array of all colors so that we have a signal when the anchor has freed itself from the bottom and then we know as we're pulling it up that the boat is free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our fantastic boat neighbor Captain Tim helped us splice the rode to the chain, this is a VERY important part of the system, weak splices = boats adrift! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weather for this project was less than desirable, we were FREEZING with cold, raw rain and a frigid Maine April seabreeze, it was one of those many times when we say, "this life aboard sure isn't all Jimmy Buffett songs & margaritas!" </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9kCf-nJNKzeDKuO1yEoSbeJ_qEau4HlAp_bbO0yrfVesSgL0gwEeePDUNZIwWPyExAlEde7lDfeF_0mOxUeQ0D3S3lwoVck2NShTkKC4QLYxl0bEVn8804RFDzMoKLYdIsusaAnTT3W8/s1600/mantus-65lb-galvanized-steel-anchor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9kCf-nJNKzeDKuO1yEoSbeJ_qEau4HlAp_bbO0yrfVesSgL0gwEeePDUNZIwWPyExAlEde7lDfeF_0mOxUeQ0D3S3lwoVck2NShTkKC4QLYxl0bEVn8804RFDzMoKLYdIsusaAnTT3W8/s1600/mantus-65lb-galvanized-steel-anchor.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have been offered a sponsorship by <a href="http://mantusanchors.com/" target="_blank">Mantus Anchors</a> - a fantastic new anchor manufacturer, cruisers who developed this state of the art anchor that sets the first time, every time. So we'll be ordering a brand spanking new 65 lb. galvanized steel anchor to add to this sweet new ground tackle system we have now. We're going to have it in time for our Summer 2014 cruise to the Cape and Islands - hello gunkholing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ground tackle system is SO important for any cruising sailboat, it means freedom and safety! In a couple years when we're anchored off a deserted island in the Bahamas we'll think of the cold, bitter Maine afternoon that we did our anchor chain marking project and laugh -and maybe we'll sip a margarita too! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saying goodbye to great winter boat neighbors aboard "House Cat", Celie and Jennings, they're anchored up in Great Bay this summer! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't believe we haven't updated this blog since the end of March, and here it is mid-June! It's 70 outside, the sun is shining and I'm listening to the sounds of a rocking concert across the harbor in the Seaport. Yup - that's right, we're living it up in the big city, Boston - East Boston to be exact. We're at the Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina in the Jeffries Point neighborhood of "Eastie". We are right across the harbor from the Seaport District and the World Trade Center. We've been here exactly one month today. We have lots to share about our projects and prep this spring and then our trip south from Portsmouth to Boston, but for now I'll share a little slice of life from this first month here in Boston. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The transition has been a bit tough, not going to lie, the change from the quiet, quaint, forested lands of New Hampshire and Maine to the constant hustle and bustle and WAVY, ROCKY waters of Boston Harbor has taken some getting used to. The marina is a bit more 'industrial' and with not so many luxuries but the view is quiet something! The whole city skyline is laid out before us. Not to mention the entire city is at our fingertips, the T into downtown is a 10-minute walk and the city water taxis pick up right on our pier! There's a funky, fun place called KO Pies right inside the Shipyard that serves authentic Australian pies and Harpoon on tap. It's a lot of fun and only a 3 minute walk from the deck of our boat. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our dock, F-Dock is almost entirely sailboats and a few young liveaboards! We're all the way at the end on the right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Shipyard is part of <a href="http://www.harborarts.org/" target="_blank">Harbor Arts Shipyard Gallery</a> so throughout the piers and buildings are fantastic works of murals, sculptures, installations and more. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My two loves on our new dock </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great view for walking Big Guy </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've been trying to fall into our groove here in Boston but with the onset of summer weather life's been busy with F-U-N! We </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">have also been spending a lot of time at the Cape House getting that <a href="http://www.vrbo.com/578879" target="_blank">place ready to rent for the summer</a>. The couple of weekends we've spent in Boston have been great fun! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tim's brother Andrew and a bunch of his good buddies all live around the corner from the marina so, needless to say, this first month has included A LOT of boat drinks! Bridget from NYC even came aboard for a few and crazy thunderstorm!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are definitely liking the array of options in front of us for going out - the options for live music especially, but also for going out to eat - innumerable cuisine types from every culture, loads of delicious Latino food in Eastie. On a Tuesday we were able to go to a really cool club in Cambridge and catch a nationally touring bluegrass band that we love - <a href="http://www.chathamcountyline.com/" target="_blank">Chatham County Line</a>. Great craft beer line up, delicious food and incredible music. It was AWESOME! And on a Tuesday! Certainly not something we could do in Portsmouth! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The highlight of the past month by far was definitely this past weekend - we finally got off the dock and went sailing! Woo Hoo! On Sunday morning we hit up The Green Bean Food Truck that parks every Sunday morning in the Shipyard - bombing breakfast sandwiches & iced coffee. Crowds of folks show up in the Shipyard - Dogs Welcome - and chow down while overlooking the harbor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After that we welcomed Andrew and his bright, short-shorts called Chubbies aboard and prepped the boat to cast off. It was GORGEOUS out, 80 degrees, full sun and a light breeze. After talking to our next door boat neighbor we set our sights on Great Brewster Island, part of the <a href="http://www.bostonharborislands.org/" target="_blank">Boston Harbor Islands National Park</a>. He raved about its seclusion, easy anchoring and breezes. We haven't yet upgraded our anchor, though we very much upgraded our chain and rode - keep posted for another post on that topic - so we thought, well, we can at least try a "lunch hook". </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great crew - brings mimosas & steaktips & a mean Farmers Tan, thanks Dupree!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wasn't kidding about the short-shorts - long live Chubbies!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As we got out to the outer harbor the winds picked up nicely and we were making 6.5 knots on a close hauled sail - very nice! The temperature was at least 15 degrees cooler out there and it felt amazing! Zephyr was loving it! We approached Great Brewster Island and pulled in close to shore and Andrew and I started to deploy our anchor, she set in, we all took a visual spot on shore and made sure the boat wasn't moving and then we set about CHILL-LAX-IN! We grilled up steak tip sandwiches, I cast off the fishing pole to troll for stripers we jammed out to the Dead and enjoyed the solitude and sun. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toby LOVED roaming around while at anchor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toby loves to sail, motoring not as much.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our windlass which brings up the anchor had a bit of a snafu since we've upgraded our chain to a 3/8ths size it was jamming up the windlass. Lucky for us Andrew has been hitting the gym and was able to haul the anchor by hand! We 'weighed anchor' and set sail back towards the city. It was a nice, peaceful downwind sail at about 3.5 knots, not bad. We even had a wing-on-wing sail set up going on for a bit. We had bluegrass tunes spinning and soaked up the late day sun, feeling quite good about our first anchoring success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is until we were very closely buzzed by 747 transatlantic jet! WHOA! That was close and very loud! Poor Toby was shaking for the next 1/2 hour...sorry Boo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Relatively smooth docking - still have things to learn - and then some cold beers at the KO Pie Shop as the sun set. All in all it was a FANTASTIC Sunday! We can't wait to get back out there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are still finding our comfort zone here in Boston and find there are moments of homesickness for the fabulous Seacoast we left and all the awesome friends and boat neighbors we left, but so far, we've been enjoying the newness, the change and the challenges. Life's richness is found in moments of change and challenge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well we narrowly escaped a late season Nor'Easter yesterday and though it was QUITE a bumpy, rolly night aboard we were so thankful for NO SNOW! Winds topped out with 55+mph gusts in the middle of the night but our crew was safe and feeling quite secure. So much has changed in a year, we've all become a lot braver and more comfortable with the sounds and feelings of big winds. Not too complacent because aboard a boat, complacency leads to disasters but we were aware and alert, and secure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All that being said this NEVER ENDING winter is carrying on - we've come up with a new vocabulary to describe our exhaustion, frustration and outright hatred for winter. We are hoping the temps will finally get above 45 (they haven't since October) this weekend so we can start to prep for <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2014/03/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.html" target="_blank">our move south</a>. We're hoping to <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/04/hatching-from-bubble.html" target="_blank">burst forth from the bubble</a> next weekend and get to work on prepping the engine, rigging the sails, <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/04/spring-cleaning.html" target="_blank">scrubbing the decks</a> and on and on. We're hosting our own 'Fare the Well' party under <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/02/life-under-bubble.html" target="_blank">the bubble</a> this Saturday so we can say goodbye to our fabulous Portsmouth friends. We're planning a make-your-own <a href="http://www.islands.com/article/painkiller-drink-recipe" target="_blank">painkiller</a> bar, chowder in the crockpit & many great friends packed under the bubble. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year's Bubble Party - we topped out at 20 people under the bubble! </td></tr>
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We've also been checking some things off our to-do/improvement lists. Winter is a great time to accomplish those projects in the cabin, our living space because the decks and rigging are inaccessible due to the bubble. We had a few major things we wanted done this year mostly involving bathrooms and plumbing. Tim admitted that he never realized just how much plumbing he'd be doing living on a boat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First up...<b>Aft Bathroom Improvements</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The aft head is right off of our bedroom and it's the main spot we use. I'd wanted to improve it since we moved aboard, make it a bit more personal and 'spa-like'. This was the first "improvement" project that we've done that was simply aesthetic. Up till now we'd done a lot of maintenance, upgrades, updates and necessities, this bathroom project was our first beautification project. I was the project lead and I had a very specific inspiration in mind. So here's the before...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First we installed a bead board headliner on the ceiling</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was a big change for Tim who's typically the project lead on things, this was my job, start to finish and my vision. In order to paint we had to do a lot of wall prep. The walls were originally plastic and used to wick off water since there was a handheld shower attached to the sink. We have built a full shower in the front head(see next story) so we disconnected the shower operation in the aft bathroom. There was sanding, two coats of primer and then finally the paint. I'm not the most thorough or patient painter, lucky for me Tim is. He was just short of a pushy superintendent making sure I did everything perfectly, blue taped impeccably, didn't have any 'holidays'. Needless to say, there were some tense words while I crammed into a bathroom with a wet paintbrush and there may have been a schmear or two on someone, including a furry someone's tail. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Found these great turquoise Ball jars & used plumbers' clamps to mount to the wall </td></tr>
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a TP holder! Hadn't had any TP holder before<br />
so dry TP is quite awesome - it's the little things!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another pet peeve since we moved aboard was our kitchen (galley) sink. It was another sink with 2 separate handles rather than one mixer. This led to water waste and often scalded hands from the hot water running before the pump turned on to pump cooler water. The mixer is key! One thing we learned...faucets AREN'T CHEAP! We couldn't believe how expensive these things are. Though the interactions with staff at Home Depot or Lowe's is always interesting when they ask where we live! We know new galley faucet isn't exactly important for sailing performance but it is something that makes living aboard so much better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>And last plumping improvement...AN ONBOARD SHOWER! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since we've moved aboard we've packed up all our stuff into bags and trekked up the docks to the marina shower facilities. Though it hasn't been awful on those 2 degree mornings with slushy snow it's not the best. When we decided to build an on board shower we wanted to build something a bit more substantial than the typical boat shower which normally involves a hose with a small shower head coming out from the bathroom sink - so you shower over the toilet and soak the entire head. Though not terrible, for living aboard full-time we really thought we'd like to have something a bit more like a shower in a house. The more we can make living on the boat comfortable and soothing the less likely we'll grow frustrated and move onto terra firma and the shower was a serious part of that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The project started in October when we pulled out the forward bathroom's toilet, opening up more floor space for the shower stall and then the project doubled and then tripled in size. We ended up plumbing a full mixing valve with full shower controls. We had to buy a specially designed shower curtain tracking system and upgrade the sump pump (the drain that you push to function once you're done showering). We joke that this shower is approaching $1,000 in parts! But boy does it feel amazing to shower in your own home! To roll out of bed without having to put on boots, coats, hats, scarfs, to walk up to the shower is a thing of glory. Now, don't fool yourselves, it's not some luxurious spa like experience - it's still a "Navy Shower". Water on to wet yourself, water off, lather up, water on to rinse off, water off and you're done! Water conservation is still vital aboard the boat and only something that we have to get better at as we set off to go cruising. But you realize that you don't need a 45 minute shower to feel fresh and clean, 5 minutes is plenty. Just another awesome life lesson living aboard a boat teaches you - you CAN live with less - in this case, water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So now, the winter of cabin projects starts to come to an end the spring of sailing projects starts back up! There's NEVER an end to the work on a boat but we LOVE it that way! Constant challenge, continuous improvements and lots of satisfaction in our abilities. Next blog post - our Spring to-do list! Until then...it's time to celebrate! </span><br />
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-73298913951571962842014-03-07T14:23:00.000-08:002014-03-07T14:24:58.440-08:00Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ushering in of spring not only brings about changes in the natural world around us - like snow melting (thank goodness) and leaves popping, but for us it's also time to change from a floating, stationary, plastic wrapped condo to a cruising sailboat! There's a lot to do to get Zephyr ready for her sailing season but this year, there's even more to the story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Zephyr and her crew are moving! Not just out the river and around the bend to New Castle <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/05/preparing-to-move.html" target="_blank">like last year</a> but we're moving to Boston! Tim was offered an opportunity of a lifetime to join a fantastic construction management firm in Newton - it was an offer that just could not be turned down. We did A LOT of himming and hawing and chatting and sighing but after all the numbers were crunched and the pros and cons were laid out the decision was quite clear. The biggest challenge to the decision was -- "is this a means to the dream or a potential dead end to the dream?". </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHuwpudXiF5lyvvPKRAHCpGuV4hWPfhkSWlMr58yZdB3YgZTMgvIbhvOJ1dWq-zYKIY19EPxxUUIWk9HVpH5GoQOm2GVUFyDCrNVipVL141x6FD7kSUZvdv47zAHsog9Bq7B13VzED5w-/s1600/bob3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHuwpudXiF5lyvvPKRAHCpGuV4hWPfhkSWlMr58yZdB3YgZTMgvIbhvOJ1dWq-zYKIY19EPxxUUIWk9HVpH5GoQOm2GVUFyDCrNVipVL141x6FD7kSUZvdv47zAHsog9Bq7B13VzED5w-/s1600/bob3.jpg" height="258" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The dream is to take off to the Bahamas and the Caribbean while we're young and able bodied - i.e. in the next 3-4 years - and live the cruising lifestyle for as long as our love of it and the fun persists. Like my mom's bumper sticker once said, "if it's not fun, why do it?"</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> When we bought the boat in September 2012 we'd thought we could cast off in 2 years, Fall 2014 is what we'd always told ourselves. The inimitable Bob Bitchin (right) from <a href="http://cruisingoutpost.com/" target="_blank">Cruisers Outpost </a>(previously Latitudes & Attitudes) the magazine for and by cruising sailors once wrote an editorial about setting the date. He wrote that if you have a dream to set off into the sunset aboard your boat you have to move from the "some day" mentality to the "I will" mentality. It's important to set the date, that date might change, it might stretch out but the key is to plan the date, to move from dreaming to planning. Just dreaming will never help you attain the lifestyle you seek. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Listen to Bob talk about this shift in mentality on his podcast - </span><a href="http://cruisingoutpost.com/2012/08/to-go-or-not-to-go/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">check it out</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> - it's quite inspiring</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, as we grappled with this decision to move to Boston, this move to a 'corporate job' with 'perks' and 'benefits' and the hustle and </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>expense</i></b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> of big city living we questioned whether this was going to lead us to the dream or cloud our vision. Did we really want to push our departure off at least 2 more years, maybe more? Was this the next step to the dream or should we hang up our bowlines and move to land to focus on careers? Could Jill really survive 2 more winters aboard in New England, really? How do we balance the natural, societal inclination to embrace success of career advancement with the atypical desire to leave it all behind to follow dreams? Were we the type to live to work or work to live? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The whole process has allowed for a great opportunity</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for self-assessment and moments of true clarity. It's quite easy to fall into the path of making good money, buying more things, needing more money, etc. etc. And we wanted to be sure we were self-aware enough to at least know that could be a pitfall. But what it's ended up doing is given us a great chance to recommit to our dream and more importantly, to actively make that shift from dreaming to planning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The thing is for the last year or so we'd been feeling that since we bought the boat not that much had changed. We haven't really felt like were making headway on our goals or plans, we were in the same city, with the same jobs and same friends, but instead of living in our old duplex we were now just living on a boat. We were comfortable and content, which we realize now was leading to complacency. We were not feeling like the trajectory we were on, <i>especially</i> with our current incomes were moving us along the plan to fix up, save up and cast off. So, enter this opportunity for Tim and the need to shake up pretty much everything. That's the thing about shaking things up - it's only then that you can really start to instill change in habits. It's when you're most uncomfortable that that you are really starting anew. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, that's what we're doing - shaking it all up, recommitting to the plan (this time with far better financial prospects), pushing the date out to Fall 2016 and putting pen to paper on real goals month-to-month, sacrifices to make, projects to do and overall refilling our tanks with dream gasoline. Please don't think this was all rainbows and butterflies as I've written - it's actually been pretty downright challenging and emotional, but I think that too is a sign of just how committed to our plan we really are. If the decision to accept the job, move our lives, give up our sweet little Seaside city was easy then we'd know where our hearts were at but we understand this is a means to an end. Not to mention, the job, it's FANTASTIC! A phenomenal opportunity for Tim - dude's got his own extension! The positives of this career move for Tim cannot be understated, he's a very, very happy camper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our new home for the next two years will be Boston Harbor. So on/around May 1st we'll cast off lines and head south to Boston. This summer we'll be living at the <a href="http://www.bhsmarina.com/" target="_blank">Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina</a> in East Boston. The view of downtown Boston cannot be beat! Plus Andrew (Dupree), Tim's brother and a few other friends live around the corner. Jill's closer to her family on the South Shore. The water taxi stops at the marina and can bring us to the entire waterfront! The T is only 6 minutes away and the marina itself is a wonderful space with good people and lots of areas to soak up the view. Who's interested in watching the 4th of July fireworks over the Boston skyline from the cockpit of Zephyr?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we've got 8 more weeks to enjoy this wonderful little city of Portsmouth that we've called home for the last 7 years. It's going to be very hard to leave this place and the people we've come to love but we don't doubt that they understand this is for us to follow our dreams and we hope they'll still be around to hang with even if we are an hour south! The vacillations of mood that inevitably accompany big changes in life will no doubt continue for us but we'll try and remember...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As winter rolls on we did get a small glimpse of spring this past weekend which just whet our appetite for warmer days and sailing! We cranked up Mr. Perkins (our diesel engine) and he started right up! After months of dormancy, he was a total rock star and cranked up and purred like a lion (not as quiet as a kitten, let's be honest, it's an old diesel). Just the smell of the diesel and the grumbling of the engine in our home reminded us that this isn't just a floating apartment, but it's a vehicle to freedom and following our dreams. It feels so good to have had even the littlest promise of warmer weather and open waters. Not going to lie - this winter has been a tough one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, in keeping with our escapism, we thought we'd write the second part of our summer cruise in Casco Bay. <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2014/02/reliving-our-summer-cruise-part-1.html" target="_blank">Last we wrote</a>, we were moored in Cape Porpoise Harbor and were about to celebrate Tim's 34th birthday. We set off heading north with Chebeague Island as our destination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We cast off the mooring, the sun was shining, sky was blue, fog had lifted and it was a perfect breeze to unfurl ALL THREE sails. Though we don't have a lot of experience sailing ketch rigged boats we started very quickly realizing how great it is. There's a lot more options for sail configurations dependent upon the wind direction and strength. The mizzen sail is aft of the cockpit and that allows for a lot more stability on the back side of the sailboat giving the boat a better ability to hold a line. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One fun thing we did to pass the time was to read all about the travels of Captain Cook. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Latitudes-Boldly-Captain-Before/dp/0312422601" target="_blank">This book</a> is a modern day reliving of Cook's voyage with fantastic glimpses into Cook's original logs and travels. Juxtapose to our travels through Casco Bay this was a cool way to have your mind engaged while we sailed. Highly recommend this book! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We reserved a mooring off the <a href="http://www.chebeagueislandinn.com/" target="_blank">Chebeague Island Inn</a>, a classic 1920's hotel with grand porch up on the bluff overlooking Casco Bay. It was perfection AND the mooring was free for Inn dinner guests! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before dinner we took a swim, diving off the boat and had some birthday cake that I baked while underway - my first underway baking experience!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We got all "dolled up" -- as best we can from a boat -- and made our way up to celebrate Tim's birthday dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dinner of lobsters, mussels, steak and wine finished with some birthday cake in the cockpit! Quite a perfect 34th birthday for Tim, and to think his 33rd birthday was celebrated aboard a <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/08/its-all-happening.html" target="_blank">training sailboat outside Newport</a> - think we might be on the right track! </span></div>
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-26758413963875642532014-02-06T11:50:00.001-08:002014-02-06T11:57:40.957-08:00Reliving Our Summer Cruise: Part 1<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So after another foot+ of snow fell on us yesterday and I'm battling another winter cold I thought it was a prime time to finally blog about our amazing 2-week summer cruise. I've been saving the pics and the stories until I needed to relive them and since my <a href="http://www.webmd.com/depression/tc/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad-topic-overview" target="_blank">SAD</a> and cabin fever has set in in a big way I think now's the perfect time. Since there's a lot to share I'll split it into a few blog posts...today's: preparations and casting off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first step in planning a two-week cruise is mapping out the route. We looked at our charts, did some online charting and chatting with friends and fellow boaters and laid out our route. As is the reality in all sailing adventures, plans are like sand at low tide - ever changing. Weather, boat issues and winds determine more of your plans than anything else. But, we planned to cast off on Sunday, July 28th, we'd planned to sail east to the Isle of Shoals for an overnight just to kick off the trip and then point north into Maine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, first we had to provision the boat. I'd done A LOT of reading of other bloggers provisioning lists, <a href="http://theboatgalley.com/cruisers-cookbook/" target="_blank">The Boat Galley cookbook</a>'s list and about a million other lists and created our </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4-page master spreadsheet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsYGg5rNi_-gnZQeSQDMxxlpaNYHr_6GG3Z9jMKJU1nic-i6nWDl4KAzO7ttOlQ66i1Tbl9JiTz3qQAF90eKOIFtc1Wt5TJJyCNrPiOEMfudVOt3gKrnkiwk6wTDDQq0685PAJG9l39lfK/s1600/Provisioning+List+-+Casco+Cruise_Page_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsYGg5rNi_-gnZQeSQDMxxlpaNYHr_6GG3Z9jMKJU1nic-i6nWDl4KAzO7ttOlQ66i1Tbl9JiTz3qQAF90eKOIFtc1Wt5TJJyCNrPiOEMfudVOt3gKrnkiwk6wTDDQq0685PAJG9l39lfK/s1600/Provisioning+List+-+Casco+Cruise_Page_4.jpg" height="200" width="154" /></a> Seeing that over 6 months later we're still eating some of the provisions, I think it might have been overkill. Oh well, you can never have enough cans of black beans! The pink section of the spreadsheet - "Ditch Kit" is what we had put aside in case you know, we had to ditch out on the boat! It's important to have some non-perishable snacks and lots of water on hand just in case the worst happens. It was a lot of fun to plan out what we might eat day in and day out but the reality is that it's not like we were in some remote anchorage with no shore side services most of the spots we planned on staying at had restaurants and bars right on the water that we could dinghy into. Lesson learned, less provisions, more beer money! :)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's a lot of food! Miraculously we stored it all away safely, this boat has LOTS of great storage. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hammock fulla snacks. My co-worker Phil gifted us this hammock from his<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next morning we cast off the lines and headed to the Wentworth Fuel dock, well almost, as we approached the dock we stupidly went to the inside of the red nun and OOPS - we ran aground! Yup, about 10 feet off the fuel dock we were stuck. The saying goes that any boater that tells you they've never run aground is lying. So here was our first and most likely not our last experience. Spencer, the Wentworth Manager hauled us off the mud with the launch. They told us, "If this is the worst thing that happens on your 2-weeks, you're be doing great!" With red faces and a bit humbled we passed the breakwater and set off from Little Harbor at 11:15am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We made way at about 2 knots until we reached Gerrish Island and then decided to turn on the "iron genoa" so we could ensure we'd make it to Cape Porpoise, Kennebunkport in time for happy hour - priorities. We connected with the Harbormaster to see about any free moorings and there was one! We were in luck and it was FREE! Baird #47, my lucky number! We hooked the mooring at 4:30 and within 5 minutes of settling the VERY thick, pea soup fog rolled in and blanketed us. We couldn't even see the harbor channel we'd just passed through! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zephyr moored next to a lobster dock as we dinghy into shore, there were other boats around us, but the fog was so thick you couldn't see them!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We decided to dinghy into shore to walk Big Guy and explore the town a bit, maybe grab a happy hour drink or two. The harbor is so quintessentially Maine from the briny lobster docks to the fisherman's co-op to the dinghy dock full of old steel dinks. We wandered around Cape Porpoise which is gorgeous and decided to play fetch with Toby in a lot behind the local grocery. Well, Toby found the real treat behind the lot -- a mud pit. He came out and looked like a black lab. Our first night of the cruise and we've got a stinky, smelly, filthy dog on our hands - sweet! The local church's hose was a God send - literally. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cape Porpoise is so quintessentially Maine, worth a trip! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(And I was right, reliving this fantastic trip has totally helped get me out of my mid-winter funk and gets me excited for next summer, so stay tuned for more!)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From here on out we've got to haul the 1,000+ foot hose down to the docks to fill our water tanks, an unenviable task in the frigid cold & Ice...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the fun of summer - bug spray, sunscreen & fishing lures being stowed - sad day!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This week or next "</span><a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/02/life-under-bubble.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Bubble</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">" will be brought into creation yet again. The weather lately has been down right miserable and we never thought we'd say this, but we're sort of excited to get the protection The Bubble provides. Of course we'll also start the countdown until we <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/04/hatching-from-bubble.html" target="_blank">hatch from the bubble</a> in Spring. The winds have been relentless and the recent snap of bitter cold weather has us wishing for the greenhouse effect the shrinkwrap provides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This year we're a bit wiser and we'd like to think better prepared for the onslaught of the Maine winter. With advice from our boat neighbors we've turned the boat around so she's stern-to the dock and this has helped tremendously with the rocking and rolling we get on the river. She's taking the waves on her bow and therefore cutting through them rather than having them slapping her hull - i.e. quieter in the aft cabin. We've also made our bedroom into a spaceship by insulating all the walls with the silver Reflectix wrapping. We're hoping this will avoid another "hair freezing to the wall" incident like we had last year! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One lesson learned already...Don't store ALL of your wool sweaters in a musty, moldy trunk! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We had dreamed of adding a wood stove or more permanent heater this year but then we said, that's not getting us closer to our dream of the Bahamas! We made a pact that we're only adding things that we KNOW we'll need/use when we're in the tropics or sailing, because let's face it living aboard in New England winters is NOT the end game here! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another smart addition we made this year is a dehumidifier. It's been a game-changer in the <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/10/youll-learn.html" target="_blank">battle with condensation</a>. We got the 30-pint and it seems to keep up pretty good with the moisture. The amount of water we get from it every day and a half is quite amazing - no wonder our skin feels so moist! </span></div>
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So we're decking our halls for Christmas, finishing up the last of the winter preparation projects and hunkering down for our 2nd winter aboard in Maine. This year promises to be so much better not only because of our new knowledge but because there are A LOT more boat neighbors on the docks this year! Other cool folks "living the dream" like us - kindred spirits! More life on the docks will definitely help the dark, cold months go by faster! Plus the awesomely gorgeous <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/01/reasons-why-wednesday-front-row-seat.html" target="_blank">new Memorial Bridge</a> is built so we can walk into downtown Portsmouth in about 6 minutes. The walk across the river is gorgeous and we're really loving living "downtown", not to mention living without relentless construction noise above our boat is quite lovely! So here's to winter - and to dreaming of moving to the Bahamas...some day! </div>
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-66996472327243053052013-10-02T10:47:00.002-07:002013-10-02T10:53:19.576-07:00Change for Change Sake<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are quickly realizing that this life afloat breeds indecision. Not sure if it's the fact that as sailors we're ruled by the vacillations of weather, the constant up and down of tides and the highs and lows of waves. Or if not having a lease or mortgage encourages shallow, if any roots, but either way we're in a constant state of up and down, high and low, back and forth. When all it takes is to untie a few lines and kick up an engine in order to move your home the options begin to feel endless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were told a while back by a seasoned sailing cruising that you live in 6-month horizons. There's little if any long-term planning when it comes to boats and travel. And life as a liveaboard here New England, this couldn't be more true. Here in the Portsmouth region options are limited for marinas to live at and this only adds to the 6-month horizon lifestyle. Not to mention that for 6 months of year you're the envy of many and for the other six your the crazy friend/son/daughter/sibling living on a boat! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As Summer of 2013 folds into Fall 2013 the changes around us are palpable. The marina goes from bustling with action to silent. The dockside cafe closes. The marina staff hours cut back. The parking lot empties. The slips around us start to clear out. And the sense that it's time to move on becomes stronger and stronger. Couple that with the natural transition occurring in the environment during autumn in New England plus a natural propensity for change and a couple of gypsy souls and you've got the recipe for a tumultuous few weeks. Welcome to the crew of the Zephyr's last month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We started out in mid-August looking at liveaboard marinas in Boston. Thoughts of big city living and change drove us to explore this option. But then logistics of costs, cars, lifestyle and our love of open spaces (especially Toby's) stopped making sense. We then headed north, though not in support of our end goal of heading to points south where the latitudes get smaller we'd always been drawn to the city of Portland, Maine. The music, the food scene, a few very rad friends, the familiar but difference to Portsmouth. We checked out the one marina of liveaboards in the Old Port. It was a GORGEOUS late-August day, the stuff of summer dreams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Minds whirled all of September - Portland or Kittery? Kittery or Boston? Winter rental on land (for a very brief second)? We came to a decision - Portland. We tried that decision on, felt it out for a while. Just like trying on clothes I've always 'tried on decisions'. When I was deciding on where to go college I was at a fancy cocktail party for my dad's work in NYC. Every person who asked where I was going I'd respond with a different school - St. Michaels, Trinity, Fairfield, Loyola New Orleans - just to see how it felt to say and also what their reaction was. New Orleans always, always got the best reaction, obviously! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we told our friends and families we were moving to Portland. Always incredibly supportive they were happy and sad at the same time. And all the while the decision was still not 'fitting right' entirely for either of us. We were feeling overwhelmed, stressed and there were a lot of 'heart hurts' as we thought about leaving this city we've called home for the last 7 years. Not to mention the marina in Portland was not responding to our request for a rental agreement so nothing was falling into place. Add to that our good friends and fellow liveaboards, Justin and Kim made the decision to stay aboard their boat in Kittery for the winter - neighbor friends on the dock! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As all our awesome Portsmouth friends gathered to celebrate Jill's birthday on Monday night the decision became clear - we are staying. Changing for the sake of change when nothing else is really drawing you to change is not the healthiest way to live. Last year was our first winter aboard, everything was a lesson, everything was new, this year we have the opportunity to learn from our mistakes, improve upon on lives and if we go and mix that all up by moving we may lose that clarity. Our end goal is not to move north it's to move to points south and the decision to stay will help us stay on target to do that. Eyes on the prize as my mom always tells us. So, we'll be in Kittery, Maine again this winter and this time without the incessant construction noise from the Memorial Bridge - we can walk downtown! </span></div>
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-23690339284647736892013-09-07T11:47:00.000-07:002013-10-02T10:48:52.456-07:00One Year In - 10 Things We've Learned<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it was exactly one year ago today that we moved aboard Zephyr and set sail from Portland!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The lessons we've learned, the experiences we've had are too many to name and we're so incredibly grateful for it all. We thought we'd put our 3 heads together and come up with the biggest lessons learned in this first year of living our dream. Next week we'll each write our own personal lists of personal lessons learned, so stay tuned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. <b>You can live with a lot less</b> - when we moved aboard from the Dupe we were quite cutthroat about <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/09/turmoil-tumult-elation.html" target="_blank">purging our worldly possessions</a>. At the time it was very emotional to give up our 'stuff' and we definitely weren't sure we'd be 'OK' without it. The emotions were high as we bid adieu to our bed, couch, books, most of our wardrobes, kitchen stuff, etc. Now a year later we rarely even miss those things. Sure we're doing laundry A LOT more because we both only have enough clothes to get us through a week and when it comes to dressy occasions we definitely have to 'recycle' a lot. Jill, being a girl, struggles with this a tad more than Tim but there's also a great sense of peace coming from the simplicity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. <b>Tim can't cook in a Galley </b>- When Tim attempts to cook in the tiny galley that is our kitchen the word 'shit show' is an understatement. The crashing, banging, expletives and "angry Tim" episodes abound. The galley is a practice is patience, planning and patience. Your counter top is also the access to your fridge. Your fridge is a deep pit with bins barely balanced upon one another like a cruel game of tetris. Tim has taken on the role of grill master and Jill is galley wench. We eat pretty darn good aboard. Our favorite meals:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. <b>Two People and a Big Guy can Survive Aboard a Boat</b> - Patience. Communication. Sense of humor. Those are the keys to surviving in 500 sq. ft. with 2 people and a Big dog. There's no "I'm just going to sneak behind you" - there's no sneaking, there's slipping through, there's just moving out of each other's ways and waiting, maybe giving them a little sass about taking their sweet time... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. <b>We're not retired, nor rich </b>- Sailing off into the sunset for months (years) is our end goal since we're not retired or trust fund babies we're going to have to figure out how to do this while making an income. Plans are in the works in that regard. Doing all that we need/want to do to our boat is a work in progress, a LONG (maybe lifelong) work in progress. We aren't rich so most of the work we do is DIY. We don't have the budget to hire boat yards, or specialists so we do a lot a lot of Internet research, YouTube clips and message boards to learn how to do something. It's not a fast way of getting the all work done but it's what we got. Choosing to do this when we're young rather than retired requires a lot more patience and perseverance to see it through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. <b> You learn to love zippers, hatches and portholes </b>- Life on a boat is deeply embedded into the elements - the glorious and the not so lovely. As we've <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/10/reasons-why-wednesday-one-with-nature.html" target="_blank">written about before</a>, we are very closely connected to the weather around us. We live, breathe and soak up every ounce of the weather. When the morning sun shines and the breezes pick up we unzip the many zippers of our cockpit enclosure, when the evening dew sets in we zip them back up. When the rains start we run around madly closing hatches and fastening portholes and then as soon as the rain stops we open it all back up. We love being able to let the weather into our living space and when we want to be dry and warm, zipping it back out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9. <b>It's not all cocktails & hors d'oeuvres, but when it is it's awesome </b>- We've definitely become masters at the sundowners and Happy Hours. The boat is almost never without some nice cheese, crackers, salami and olives and of course copious amounts of rum. The thing about boating people that we've learned is they do know how to kick back and soak up the sunset. It's a daily ritual and we've taken to that habit quite nicely. Sure, there's days when there's work or errands or chores but the boat friends we've made over some cocktails and snacks are great. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">10. <b>Think things through </b>- whether it's how to bring the boat into the slip, how long a passage from one port to the other will take, how to cook a galley meal or how to get to something buried deep in a locker it's all about the forethought before acting. You have to step back before acting and think it through, think about your bail out if the docking goes wrong, think about what you'll need to cook the entire meal, plan out exactly which waypionts you'll hit on your passage. It's a practice in discipline and patience and one we're still working on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So there they are - a few of the overarching things we've learned as we've gone through this first year. We aren't going to sugarcoat and say it's all been delightful but we have had a lot of great times! When we moved aboard a year ago, we promised one another that we'd give it a year and if either one of us wanted off, we'd both bail. We're happy to report today that we're both still in it to win it! We're no where near close to giving up on this dream in fact we just keep pumping it with dream gasoline! Thanks for following along with us! </span></div>
Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-62129801149342470992013-07-19T10:10:00.002-07:002013-07-19T10:10:48.167-07:00Kicking off Summer Right!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, Summer 2013 certainly has been a BUSY time for the crew of the Zephyr, hence the total lack of blogging! So we figured we'd try and get caught up slowly but surely.We'll start with the highlight to our summer so far, the first day of summer, June 21st, overnight raft up at the <a href="http://www.portsmouthnh.com/thingstodo/todoDetail.cfm?TodoID=2&CategoryID=4" target="_blank">Isle of Shoals</a>. I've always loved the solstice, my mom would always remark that it's the longest day of the year and for me being someone who LOVES sunsets and twilight it's just about perfect. The Isle of Shoals is 6 miles off the coast of Portsmouth and it has a long and fascinating history which is definitely worth checking out if you're interested. We made the plan to meet up with our great friends Justin and Kim and raft up on their yacht club's mooring for the night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We provisioned, prepared, did our check lists and cast off at about 4pm. Winds were around 5-10 knots and the seas were relatively flat for the Gulf of Maine. We had a fantastic sail and we got to use Autopilot for the first time! What a fantastic little device that is! To be able to leave the helm and go forward or grab a drink or just lay back and enjoy the peace of lapping waves - WOW! We cruised at around 4.5 knots and soaked up the sweetness of our new life - feeling very, very grateful. We had the stereo up and the beers were cold. This was our first overnight trip since we brought the boat south from Portland in September. It was quite awesome not to worry about what to pack or if we had all that we needed - our boat is our house so we had it all! Quite an incredible feeling of freedom to know that all you need in this world - dog, husband, 'stuff' is all aboard and you're setting sail out on the water...the opportunities are endless, that feeling was like a drug for me and I can't wait to feel it again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was such a thrill to finally be approaching the Shoals this clump of land that we see all the time from the marina. There's this fantastic old grand hotel out on Star Island called the Oceanic Hotel, now part of the <a href="http://starisland.org/" target="_blank">Star Island Corporation </a>which is owned by the UU church. They host lots of retreats and camps throughout the summer out there and Gosport Harbor where the moorings are located overlooks this grand hotel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We arrived around 7pm, rafted up alongside LIB and the happiest of hours ensued aboard Zephyr with Kim and Justin. Toby got to have his first dinghy ride to take care of 'business' ashore. Toby was nervous but in the end he really liked taking an adventure with his papa. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The sunset was nothing short of phenomenal...the stuff of watercolor paintings. There was a gorgeous gaff-rigged, wooden sparred, schooner moored off our starboard side and once the sun began to sink behind her rig I was pinching myself that this was our life getting to witness this kind of beauty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the day turned into night we were 'boarded' by Pelicans. No, not the birds, but rather a few of the staff from the Star Island Hotel. They're called <a href="http://pelicansarepelicans.org/" target="_blank">Pelicans</a> because they work out on the island all summer and barely ever visit the mainland for 5-6 months. They are fantastically interesting people who were a pleasure to have aboard. The first Pelican, Keith, came aboard via row boat and came bearing gifts - a pitcher of Raspberry Lime Rickey from the Cafeteria & a bottle of Rum, our kind of boat guest! Then more Pelicans came via a little blue dory sailboat. Still more arrived in another row boat, at the height of the night our little raft up had 5 assorted boats tied to it.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The stars over the grand hotel, the cool summer breeze, the Super Moon, the sound of the waves crashing over the breakwater...absolutely awesome! To be able to experience all this a mere 3 hours from our slip at the Wentworth, even more incredible, and to to think, this is just the beginning for us and our adventures aboard Zephyr! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In fact, next weekend we depart for a <b><u>two-week cruise</u></b> up to Maine and Casco Bay. We are in the planning, charting, provisioning list making phase but we'll be sure to share our plans as they come together. Our first stop on Sunday, July 28th - The Isle of Shoals! Since sailing is inextricably linked to weather we're keeping our plans loose all we know is that we're going to shove off the dock and not return for two whole weeks! We can't wait! </span><br />
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-4295330394262408742013-06-03T10:52:00.000-07:002013-06-03T10:52:44.519-07:00The Usual Chaos of Living Well...<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Somehow we'd imagined our life aboard as being entirely different from land life, and though things are different, from the daily chores to the sounds and smells, life is still life. There's still a lot of life that goes on whether we're floating or still. That means life commitments, job commitments, house/boat guests, life events to celebrate...overall, time spent off the boat living life. One of our favorite quotes to describe our lifestyle is by poet Robert Lowell, "<i>The usual chaos of living well.</i>" And living well is exactly what we've been doing these past couple weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We haven't gotten as much time sailing as we'd like, no thanks to the torrential rains & 40 degree temps of Memorial Day weekend, we have been having a wonderful start to the summer. Full of laughs, visits and celebrations with old friends, happy hours with new friends, special times with family and adventures in OJ, the orange bus. If we can't be adventuring in our sailboat we can at least adventure in our other love, the VDub! There's just something about slow rolling around New England in a VW bus...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found enough sun to visit Seapoint Beach in Maine, Carrie's never been to Maine!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Meggie and Seth got married in Scituate on Memorial Day weekend. Fantastic catching up with Jill's old friends from high school & celebrating a wonderful couple! </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibBEGhYK8cDcaviZ2viHJxvBj3CIb6-vnIyP6wJGINdLYx51_0zEqil-GjtUOd2ziwN5QKpaVGD7UfTsUFFi_eUUGEi7wuePlD8LbyJE2JXijrKS10Zsk1bljPkd5Fkhf0UkrJuLAurKnC/s1600/IMG_1731.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Memorial Day Monday was spent 'straight chilling' on the bow. The sun was shining, the breezes blowing and we just laid about the boat doing nothing, answering to no one, enjoying the sweet life of living aboard.We hit some golf balls at the range, had some late afternoon beers at <a href="http://www.wentworthmarina.com/dockside_diner.asp" target="_blank">The Green Bean </a>with some boat neighbors and took a long walk with Toby at sunset. Perfect kick-off to summer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Following the cold and rainy Memorial Day, in classic New England style, the temps rose 50* in less than a week and ushered in HOT and HUMID weather! It was pushing 95 on Friday! Lo and behold we discovered that Zephyr has a working A/C system - WHAT?! So we may not have had central heat all winter but we'll take central A/C! We took a fantastic dip in the Wentworth pool and sipped on frozen pina coladas Friday afternoon before hosting some new boat neighbors and friends for happy hour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />The heat arrived just in time for a trip to Newport/Portsmouth, Rhode Island to celebrate Kate and Andrew's wedding. Tim grew up with Kate and her brother Tom was Tim's best man at our wedding. Rather than spend tons of money on a hotel we chose to get a campsite and park the bus for the night. The adventure to Rhode Island was a bit worrisome, you see, an air cooled bus + 95* heat + Boston traffic can make one very nervous...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But OJ rallied through and we made it just fine to our wonderful little patch of forest in Portsmouth, RI. Getting ready for a formal wedding out of the back of a VW bus at a campground is so much fun because of the sheer irony! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The wedding was GORGEOUS! In a mansion on the shore of Narragansett Bay. It brought back fond memories of <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/08/its-all-happening.html" target="_blank">our fantastic week sailing</a> those waters last summer and elicited more planning and scheming for future trips! The celebration was so full of happiness and love CONGRATS KATE & ANDREW! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate was a GORGEOUS bride - why she chose to include us 2 jamokes - not sure! :) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A flashback to another time at the Glen Manor House </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous tablescapes with a fantastic backdrop</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The adventure home in OJ had an additional two passengers/friends who ended up camping with us the night prior - I think they just wanted to experience the awesomeness that is rolling in OJ. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danielle, Matt & Toby Post-wedding snoozing in the back of the bus - Toby was all partied out!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So though we might not be getting as much sailing in as we'd thought we would we have been soaking up this special time with family and friends. In the not so distant future we'll be off cruising in the Caribbean and we won't have the opportunity to rejoice in all these special moments and celebrations and I know we'll be sad to miss them. So from now until we cast off the lines for good we'll be playing the balancing act that is life and loving every second of it, in other words, living very, very well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Cinco de Mayo we left Kittery, the whole marina gang came out to send us off & bid us farewell (till November). Our friends and boat neighbors from the houseboat "POUR HOUSE" Justin & Kim came aboard for the day, excited to get some time on the water as their sailboat "Lib" is still being commissioned for the spring. Our other boat neighbors Kristin and Bob from "Nautorious" were also moving over to the Wentworth the same time. Since you can only really operate on the river at slack tide we both cast off within 5 minutes of each other. </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As we motored down river Kristin, who is a fantastic photographer (check our <a href="http://www.kristinburchstedphotography.com/Site/Welcome.html" target="_blank">her website</a>), slowed their boat down a bit to take photos of us...how special it is to have these INCREDIBLE images of "Zephyr" - thank you Kristin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rather than go straight over to the Wentworth the weather and winds were perfect for a sail! So we shook out our Genoa (front sail) and our mizzen (back sail), our main sail is still at the sail loft being repaired from our </span><a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/09/reasons-why-wednesday-she-carried-us.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">maiden voyage debacle</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">. Zephyr felt GREAT, she's so wonderful under sail, handles so well, even in the 3-4 foot rollers in the Gulf of Maine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We followed along the coast of New Castle, Rye and into North Hampton just enjoying the calmness and serenity only found while under sail. The Gulf of Maine/Atlantic Ocean is still quite cold this time of year, only 48*, so when the winds shifted and started coming onshore it got a bit chilly for us. We tacked around and headed back towards the Wentworth preparing to celebrate Cinco de Mayo cockpit style. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Probably the best part of the day - our friend Justin created a <b><u>FANTASTIC</u></b> video clip of our voyage! We are so happy to have this great memento of our first voyage of our first summer owning Zephyr! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We came into our new slip at the Wentworth like pros, smooth and steady. We've already had our fair share of visitors - something about the Wentworth, people just LOVE to come visit! This weekend Jill's parents are coming and we're hoping to get out for a sail on Sunday and next weekend our good friend Carrie from Louisiana is coming to stay aboard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The sunsets are better in New Castle so Sundowners have become almost a daily necessity for us these days - Ah, summer is FINALLY here. We can't wait for many, many more sailing adventures, we've got plans scheming for a trip "Downeast" and to the Cape but for now, we're just soaking up the good life living the dream aboard. Cheers! </span></div>
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-39725391673516755622013-05-08T11:03:00.000-07:002013-05-08T11:03:20.671-07:00Tight Spaces and Things That Stink Can anyone guess what this post is about? A few weeks back, well before our move to the <a href="http://www.wentworthmarina.com/" target="_blank">Wentworth Marina</a>, the aft head (toilet) stopped working. This project never made any "to do list" mostly out of denial, I suppose. There was an odor that required the port hole being left open most of the winter and the door to the head remaining shut. I had read about everyone's head being a bit funky and honestly thought this was something to accept...and oh god...this is boat life. This is the part the "smiling ear to ear" cruisers do not tell you.<br />
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We have a Jabsco Electric head on board. Besides its large power consumption (leading to yet another project) it is quite nice. No hand pumping, push a button and waalaaa it is gone..in theory. Basically the way it works is sea water comes in and is pumped into the head, you do your business, hit the button, and everything disappears. Yay! Okay well, it leaves via a macerator (large grinder), is pumped again, and then travels through something called a "joker valve" (yup...a joker valve) then through a vented loop and into the holding tank. </div>
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When I started the project we could flush, but the toilet filled with too much water. A few message boards and boat friends later we deemed the joker valve the culprit. I picked up the Jabsco repair kit for my model from West Marine and replaced all kinds of parts: joker valve, impeller, wearing plates, and gaskets. After pulling the pump out of the bottom of the toilet I quickly realized like everything else these things need maintenance too. It was loaded with "stuff" and clearly was not running well. I got it all back together knowing I nailed this project. AHHHHH! Nope...toilet still fills with water and now it will not flush. </div>
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I rather hastily pulled the thing apart again, rebuilt it and installed it to the same result. At least I knew what I was doing this time around. I saw nothing wrong with what I did and put it back together expecting a different result with a sinking feeling in my stomach. I think "they" call that insanity! </div>
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Day 2 - After an excellent dinner with friends, renewed energy and a clear head I set out to conquer this thing. After some basic troubleshooting I deemed I must have a clog in the discharge line. I split open the line and sure enough it was completely jammed with calcium deposits all the way through. I didn't waste anytime and began removing all kinds of panels, doors and hatches to gain access to the hoses. I ripped them all out and ran over to <a href="http://www.jacksonshardwareandmarine.com/" target="_blank">Jackson's Hardware</a> (best, friendliest place ever) and picked up some new lengths.<br />
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After struggling a bit to get them hooked up working under the sink and behind walls, the toilet once again flushed way better than it had, albeit a few leaks...which are now fixed. And it does not smell at all!!! However it still fills with way too much water...ahhhh. The problem still persists, but I know the fix. I need a loop on the water intake line from the ocean, as the toilet sits below the water line.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's all worth it!!! First time out this year! Kristin, our neighbor took a few glory shots of us headed out! Check out <a href="http://www.kristinburchstedphotography.com/Site/Welcome.html" target="_blank">Kristin's photography here!</a></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04556700969027681388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-59883498743286599352013-05-03T12:00:00.000-07:002013-05-03T12:00:33.786-07:00Preparing to Move<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So one of the best things about life aboard a boat - moving to new 'neighborhoods' now and again. When we're full time cruising in a few years this will be commonplace but until then we're in a seasonal switcheroo process here. This weekend we'll be moving from our winter marina in Kittery, Maine to our summer 'home', the Wentworth Marina in New Castle, New Hampshire. We spent last September and October at the Wentworth and we're REALLY excited to get back there in full season. Not to mention the tennis courts, pool & tiki bar and dockside restaurant - yea, it's high living! Plus, going sailing is a lot easier because we don't have the mighty Piscataqua with it's crazy current and tides to contend with. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We're going to miss Kittery - the great stores and restaurants and the wonderful community we came to love at the Marina. We are NOT going to miss the constant construction noise from the Memorial Bridge project or the boat wakes knocking our home around. Our boat neighbors who do the switcheroo as well say the Wentworth is like the country and Badgers Island is like the city...so, we're excited to get back to the country! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course in preparation to move there's a lot to be done. Sure, it's not like packing up a whole apartment or anything but it'll be the first time the boat's gone out since we moved her in the beginning of November. Though we don't have to 'recommission' the boat like most New England sailors are doing right now we do have a lot of systems that still need checking and double checking. Plus the ridiculous web of dock lines that have been built through the winter winds and storms will FINALLY be untangled and cast off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And as with everything so far since we bought this boat in September, we're learning so it's taking twice as long. On Wednesday after work we focused on our anchor. If all else fails (i.e. our engine dies, our sails won't go up) we have to have a functional anchor to toss to keep us from drifting away or ashore. Plus we plan on doing some overnights at anchor in the coming weeks. We hadn't yet pulled out all our anchor chain and rode (rope section) to see what we were working with. And we wanted to mark the anchor rode so that when we pay it out we know how much we're letting out. So armed with a tape measure and yellow paint we laid out the entire 300 feet of chain and rope along the docks and marked every 10 feet with bright yellow paint. As with almost all projects so far, we realize we need to buy new chain and rope - the salt corrodes. And our windlass, the mechanism on deck that winds the anchor chain back aboard, needs service and potentially more parts. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>B.O.A.T. = Break Out Another Thousand</i></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Ah, boat ownership...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Saturday we'll rig the boat which we're excited to do and to learn since the last time it was rigged it was done by the previous owner. Then on Sunday with our friends from the marina, at slack tide, we'll set off for a sail and end up back at our new summer home. We're marking the beginning of the season - HOORAY! As we get into this, our first season on the boat, we're expecting to learn A LOT more and inevitably have to fix/replace more things -- this will be our 'shakedown season'. The time to figure out what's working, what's needing fixing and what we'd like to upgrade. We'll get to really learn our boat and we couldn't be more excited! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though we are spending some (read: a lot) money and lots of manpower hours on fixing, tweeking or replacing things we both LOVE it - it's our boat, our investment, our home. Things that are being replaced are now things we know are new and when it breaks, we know how to fix or replace it. There's not a better feeling than having a problem, assessing the problem and then fixing the problem. Tim is masterful at this - he truly is a man of many, many talents. His ability to take something apart, learn how it works and fix it is remarkable. This dream of living aboard and cruising could never be reality without Tim's skills. Tim's patience while I VERY slowly learn things should also be commended. Unlike Tim, I'm a lot less practical in my skill set so it takes me a lot longer to understand the workings of something -- but my bartending and cooking skills are pretty key at the end of a long day working on the boat! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The crew of the Zephyr has hatched forth into Spring full of expectation and excitement! A couple weeks back with the help of our good friend Justin and Tim's brother Andrew we took to cutting back the plastic wrapping that had contained us all winter. It felt AMAZING to cut through the plastic with knives and rip away our shield. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toby was so happy to have the wind blowing through his hair again!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah, the sweet feeling of knifing through plastic to see the gorgeous blue sky again!<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were the first in the marina to hatch and though we knew it was a tad early in the season we couldn't help it - we were READY! We are so excited about our first spring/summer season aboard we couldn't take our winter protection anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When it was all ripped off the view of the bright blue sky was glorious! To sit below and look up and know what the weather is doing is a wonderful thing! And to be able to see this awesome, active, exciting harbor we live in again and not just hear grumbling engines or tug toots - we love it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're lucky enough on board Zephyr to have a fully enclosed cockpit which is a big reason why we were able to take the shrinkwrap off so early. The enclosure keeps the cockpit nice and warm from the sun and dry from the rain. It's become our main hang out spot and big plus - we can see the Sox game on the TV in the main salon from the cockpit couch! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, with the removal of the shrinkwrap and the return of water to the docks </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we mark</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> our emergence </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from our first winter aboard. We both can't fully believe we made it! There were times...boy were there times...but now we are realizing that this idea of living on a boat was a great idea! As we sit and have coffee with the sound of gulls and the salty breeze..we feel...</span><br />
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-29809698816277316792013-04-12T13:38:00.000-07:002013-04-12T13:38:24.982-07:00One Year Later<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, we've been on this blogging adventure for exactly one year! Our <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/04/and-so-it-begins.html" target="_blank">first post</a> was on April 9, 2012 and about a week later we had our <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/04/looking-at-high-hopes-with-high-hopes.html" target="_blank">first post about our boat search</a>. BOY have we come a long way in a year! To think about how much we didn't really know when we first looked at 'High Hopes' to what we know now with 'Zephyr'...it's incredible and definitely something to be quite proud of. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As we mentioned in our first post, this dream of boat living didn't just spring up last year, no, we'd been dreaming about this life long before that. Our first boat we ever even looked at was called 'Abode', a 1980, immaculate, 41' Morgan Out-Island. All of Jill's family, Jill & Tim all trucked up to Cummaquid on Cape Cod on Labor Day weekend 2010, 10 days short of Tim & Jill's wedding, to take a cruise and check out 'Abode'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The day was truly glorious! Jill's Dad and the owner, Steve, an old Tug Captain and all around pirate-esque type of guy, got along famously, talking boats, teak work & the Navy. Since we were 10 days from getting married our heads were somewhere else, not to mention Jill was still in grad school and our life wasn't at a place to be buying a boat...but as you can see from the five-mile smiles on our faces - we were enamored, the dream was sparked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now, here we are a little more than 2 years later, boat owners, full-time liveaboards, on the cusp of our first New England summer. We've dissected A LOT of our boat, <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/10/youll-learn.html" target="_blank">learned</a> so, so <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/09/reasons-why-wednesday-she-carried-us.html" target="_blank">much</a>, have so, so much still to learn but we also realize that if we hadn't just made this leap we'd never have known. Sometimes you just have take a leap of faith and trust that though it may at times (like when it's 3 degrees in Maine on a boat) seem like you made a mistake it's all part of the journey. It's all stories you can tell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life surprises me sometimes at how fast it really does move. I can tend to live in a day-by-day mentality, focusing on the short-term and never realize just how far we've truly come. It's important to reflect back on the accomplishments, screw ups, missteps and successes and celebrate them all because that is the beauty of being alive. As trite as it sounds, life is short, real short, and I think we need to celebrate every second we can and continue to evolve, challenge ourselves and the status quo, soak up what makes us truly happy, revel in simplicity, constantly learn new things and yes, sail uncharted waters (with a chartplotter, of course)! </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>"The best way to feel the ocean is dive right into the waves..."</i></b></span>
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-38612497182024580612013-04-03T09:56:00.000-07:002013-04-03T09:56:06.520-07:00Reason Why Wednesday: Why We Should Take The Shrink Wrap Off This Weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: large;">You may have read an <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/09/reasons-why-wednesday-she-carried-us.html" target="_blank">earlier blog</a> about our sail down from Portland when we first bought the boat. The little problem with our mainsail
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know we've written about the lovely world of mold, mildew and condensation <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/10/youll-learn.html" target="_blank">before</a> and though we've learned A LOT about the intricacies of it and read a lot of ways to control it the bottom line is, it's a constant and continuous battle, especially aboard in the winter. It's life. So part of our spring cleaning has been scrubbing and cleaning every single hatch, locker and dark, dingy corner of the boat including the deep, dark world of the bilge. Wiping out the mildew and moisture that has accumulated over the winter before the warmer temps can cause it to fester and grow - I know, gross, this is life aboard. I even remarked to Tim, "I think this is the 'reality' of boat life that everyone talks about, it's not all rum drinks and Buffett songs." But, it also feels REALLY good to get elbow deep in the muck and grime, bleach it and know you're helping eradicate the "boat smell" that we've been living with for the past 6 months. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we're learning a ton about what's where in the belly of the boat. Tracing wires and hoses and connections so we know which locker holds access to what and when it, be it the water system, the electric system or the waste system inevitably breaks, we know exactly where to go to fix it, this is priceless. We're even going to create a map of our lockers and systems for our "boat binder" documenting the entire running of the boat. I tell you this boat ownership is a constant lesson for us, we are ALWAYS learning something. </span></div>
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Tim has been practicing in the art of diesel engine mechanics and impressing the heck out of the rest of the crew! He's methodically learned and executed how to change the oil, change both the primary and secondary fuel filters, bleed the fuel lines and change the transmission fluid. Mr. Perkins, our engine, started right up after a long winter's nap and is now purring like a kitten! Our 4 legged crew member doesn't exactly 'love' when the engine is grumbling but the human crew LOVES the sound of a well maintained and running engine. Our main sail is at the sail loft being patched from our harrowing maiden voyage when she sustained some damage. Next weekend we'll finally hatch from the bubble and start rigging our sails back on! We're moving back to the Wentworth Marina on April 20th for the summer so we're planning our first sail of the season now! We both can't believe we actually made it through our first winter, it feels surreal that spring is actually here and we're prepping Zephyr for her first sailing season with us!</div>
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Last month's awesome <a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/02/spring-dreaming.html" target="_blank">spring improvement project</a> was the installation of a fantastic new stereo. We got a <a href="http://www.fusionelectronics.com/marine/products/head-units-200-series/ms-ra200" target="_blank">Fusion Marine Stereo MS-RA 200</a> with cockpit and main salon speakers. </span></div>
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Life aboard with constant music surrounding us is AWESOME! We wake up & make coffee to the sweet sounds of Willie Nelson, we cook dinner to slick sounds of Old Crow Medicine Show, we hang out to the groovy sounds of the Lumineers and yes, we drink boat drinks to the island tunes of Jimmy Buffett. The cockpit speakers were a GREAT idea now that it's nicer weather we're definitely spending a lot more time out there - there's not a lot better than laying out in the cockpit in the warm weather sipping on a rum and coke listening to Jimmy Buffett's "Son of a Son of a Sailor". </span></div>
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We are feeling quite excited and very grateful that we followed our guts last September when we bought Zephyr and persevered through the challenge of purging all our worldly goods, rallied through Nor'Easters and blizzards, overcame sub-zero walks to the showers because now we are the ones who we were envious of our whole lives - we're the ones down on the docks in the springtime, we're the ones sitting on our deck for happy hour, we're boat owners and we can only imagine it's only going to get better from here! HELLO SUMMER! </div>
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-89253875652698105802013-02-28T11:50:00.000-08:002013-02-28T11:54:25.837-08:00Spring Fever/Planning<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Despite having had the 3rd snowiest winter on record and what feels like the windiest EVER, our heads are drifting off towards spring. Perhaps it's just a form of escapism (delusion?) or perhaps it's because we're on the other side of winter. As Tim says, "it's not like it's November & we're staring down the barrel of a gun with winter approaching." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, what a winter it's been! Having never been a fan of winter since living down south for 5 of them, I'm 'sensitive' (Tim would say I'm miserable). But, I have to say I'm proud of myself for not leaving Tim, packing my things & bailing to a trailer in Miami! It's crossed my mind every now and then, especially when I'm walking up to the showers at the marina club house at 7am in sleety, snowy, awfulness. But it seems I can ALWAYS find something gorgeous about my surroundings, whether it's how the sun is coming up over the Navy Yard or a loon off our stern or a fresh, salty breeze filling my lungs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As we've </span><a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2012/10/reasons-why-wednesday-one-with-nature.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">written about before</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> we live & breathe the elements in our lifestyle and you just have to persevere through them. I recently read that life aboard in New England year-round is like a Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Thing is, we only got a small taste of what it's like in the best of times since we moved aboard in September. So when we're persevering though 30 mph winds and 6" of snow we aren't really able to think, "well, remember July? This is worth it to get to July." So needless to say here we are at the end of February and we're starting to daydream about life outside '<a href="http://fromojtotheocean.blogspot.com/2013/02/life-under-bubble.html" target="_blank">The Bubble</a>'. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This past weekend we attended the Boston Boat Show. It's perfectly timed for all boaters who are starting to dream about summer, who are sick to sh*t of winter and for us young boaters it also coincides with our tax refunds! Perfect! We wandered around, attended some seminars, chatted with some riggers, sailors and 'boat people'. We scoped out some new toys and tried to avert our eyes to the sleek, new, million + dollar Beneteau sailboats that we can only dream of affording. The booth that caught my eye was the <a href="http://www.ezhangchairs.com/" target="_blank">EZ Hang Chair</a> booth - imagine flocks of people lounging in hanging hammock and canvas chairs, complete with leg rests & cup holders. The photos of the chair mounted on the deck of a sailboat was all I needed to sell me. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHu2XGkcbU4zE2-PVu7iA7HwXheyW_u2MBgZ5pnJG3WXjpTmBBy9sWKvSHbL1C535clnyGec0kk2sAX5x3cPg6Bgqp7YzfshIEM77tHpEjRuMU2lHButIX0VgBgFH2vHHw8uph6V-gR9Xv/s1600/FUsionStereo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHu2XGkcbU4zE2-PVu7iA7HwXheyW_u2MBgZ5pnJG3WXjpTmBBy9sWKvSHbL1C535clnyGec0kk2sAX5x3cPg6Bgqp7YzfshIEM77tHpEjRuMU2lHButIX0VgBgFH2vHHw8uph6V-gR9Xv/s1600/FUsionStereo.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The other big Spring Fever project currently underway - a new stereo system for the boat. A stereo is something we'd wanted since the day we moved aboard but there were other more important (think: utilitarian) things we needed to install to make life aboard livable (i.e. water filter for drinking water). But when my brother Pete gave us a very generous gift card to Amazon we thought - let's splurge and get a sick stereo system complete with cockpit and main cabin speakers - I mean who are Jill & Tim without our music??? We got the top of the line in marine stereos a <a href="http://www.fusionelectronics.com/marine/products/head-units-200-series/ms-ra200" target="_blank">Fusion MS-RA200</a>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> This baby can link up to our VHF radio, it connects to NOAA Weather forecasts, it's got dual zones so we can rock out in the cockpit when someone else (Toby?) is sleeping below deck. Tim is like a kid in a candy store with a new electronic gadget to not just play with but also install (i.e. run wires around the boat, tie into electric panel, cut holes in the boat for the speakers, etc.). Tim plans on posting a blog post about how the install goes...good thing I'm away this weekend so it can be man-town electronic install time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So though we have A LOT more to do to get ready for sailing season, A LOT more. These couple things are helping us get over this last hump of the doldrums of winter. Thinking about hanging above the foredeck, cocktail in hand, stereo cranked, the sweet sounds of music floating around us might just get us through the inevitable next snowfall and wind storm. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>So hit me with music, hit me with music</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>- Bob Marley "Trenchtown Rock" </i></b></span>Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-5502191724838096022013-02-06T09:36:00.000-08:002013-02-06T09:36:00.816-08:00Life Under the Bubble<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Random Guy at the Bar: So you live aboard in the winter? in Maine?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Jill/Tim: Yup. Full Time. We're under the shrinkwrap.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Guy: Are you crazy?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>J/T: Yup!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life under the "bubble", as we lovingly refer to our shrink wrapped boat, is going well, we're 2+ months in. When we first started researching life aboard in New England in winter we read a lot about shrinkwrapping. The white vs. the clear, the pros and cons, the cost. It seemed most liveaboards use the clear shrinkwrap because it allows for more light, sun (i.e. warmth) and you don't feel quite so claustrophobic. The funny thing is it's not totally clear so you can't really see out. You can tell when it's gray or sunny but you can't see a boat going by or when your boat neighbor calls to you, you can't tell who it is. It's a rather an amusing and bizarre experience - life in a foggy bubble world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The marina we're at typically only installs white shrinkwrap but this year all of us who were spending the winter there requested clear. The marina guy said he "doesn't guarantee clear" but he'd do it to make his customers happy. So clear it was. Right after Thanksgiving the guy came to build the wooden frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After the frame was up we went to Habitat for Humanity to buy us a front door. Tim built a threshold over the toe rail of the boat and framed out the door. </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then came the team with the shrinkwrap...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Once they wrap her they use a propane heater blow torch to warm up the plastic so it'll shrink around the boat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Balancing on the seat of a little boat to work on her port side- risky business! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This winter has been particularly windy, exceptionally so, life under the bubble helps us keep out of the wind. It's nice when you come in our front door on a windy night and all of a sudden it's quiet and calm. The Bubble also helps with condensation issues and on sunny Saturdays it's about 80 degrees under there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just last week we suffered a bubble blow out, on a wicked windy day - not to be compared with a flip-flop blowout. One of the seams burst and then the wind got up under the bubble and caused it to rip open. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This Friday we're expecting A LOT of snow, some forecasts are calling for well over a foot, hooray (said very sarcastically). And though we do trust duct tape's strength we know it probably won't hold up to a foot+ of snow. So, lucky for us the marina guy is coming over this afternoon to properly patch our bubble blowout using the proper materials and tools and HOPEFULLY she'll hold until we <b><u>happily</u></b> hatch from our bubble in late March. </span><br />
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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-87977717315192158322013-01-17T09:41:00.002-08:002013-01-17T09:41:18.087-08:00Reasons Why Wednesday: A Front Row Seat for History in the Making!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An interesting part of living at Badger's Island Marina this winter is the fact that the bridge over the Piscataqua River that looms over the marina is gone. The Route 1 bridge, called the Memorial Bridge in honor of World War I was closed to all traffic Summer 2011. The Memorial Bridge was a lot more than a mode of transport over the river to most of us in Portsmouth. It was a symbol of our great seaside city, the city with 3 bridges. Our good friends even named their new yoga studio 3 Bridges Yoga. It was the backdrop of many a fantastic time at Harpoon Willy's and the Portsmouth Decks and summer concerts in Prescott Park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On my birthday 2011, the city even held a "Farewell Party" for the bridge with a beer garden, commemorative t-shirts and an AMAZING fireworks display over the bridge. The whole city came out to send the bridge off in style. The following April she was floated out by barge and people lined the shoreline to see her float by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fast forward to this fall and winter. We move into the Badger's Island Marina and have been lucky enough to witness the engineering miracle of building a new bridge in the 2nd fastest tidal current river in the world. Don't get me wrong, the pile driving at 2am did not make us feel 'lucky'. But to see the construction workers day in and day out through rain, sleet, snow, to see what one day was a wooden structure turn the next day into a concrete piling, is pretty neat. To know this structure will far outlive us and our kids and to know we lived there the one year it was gone and witnessed it being rebuilt is VERY cool. To walk down the middle of Route 1 because there's no traffic coming over the bridge and know that this time next year it will return to being a major American highway is a unique experience a once in a lifetime period of time to live where we are living. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At 9am Tuesday this week was first major event of the bridge rebuilding - the float-in of the southern span. We'd watched the span being built up river and it was very cool to see it all come together and then yesterday morning it was floated down river to be placed on the new concrete pilings. They had 40 minutes and 1/4 of an inch in which to operate. Tugs from Moran, the US Navy and the Coast Guard were all deployed out in the river. Once again the whole city lined the shoreline in Prescott Park, and lucky us, we made fresh coffee, walked to the end of our dock and had a front row seat for history in the making! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And just like that the skyline of Portsmouth is forever changed, again. Our view of Portsmouth is forever changed and we're all one step closer to once again being able to walk over the bridge into downtown Portsmouth. Life at the marina in the winter can be challenging but it's times like this that we feel privileged to be where we are - it's exactly where we are meant to be! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">**If you are geeky and fascinated by these engineering marvels like we are, check out the <a href="http://www.memorialbridgeproject.com/" target="_blank">Memorial Bridge Project Page</a> - lots of great info, photos & schematics of the future bridge**</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-30672223503321418102013-01-09T07:32:00.002-08:002013-01-09T07:32:26.424-08:00Who is Zephyr?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">OJ the orange VW bus was born on July 4th, 1975. We only know a small portion of her story that we learned when we bought her from the hippie in Maine. He bought her in California, drove her cross country, lived out of her in downtown Boston, drove her up to Rockland, Maine where he was a lobsterman. The day he sold her to us we bought him a Greyhound ticket south since he'd sold his home and was moving on to the next adventure. We love to think about all the adventures she's been on through her years. The families who camped in her in California in the 70's. The concerts she went to - did she get to see The Dead? The roads she traveled, the memories she made for people. We love building our memories upon the ones she already has. She shows her age sometimes, especially if we try and push her above 55 MPH. But we love her and we always 'pet' her dashboard when she gets us to our destination safely and without major incident. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we bought Zephyr we thought, "Well, she's younger than OJ!". Sure, it's only by 3 years and yes, it's still older than both of us but in the same way we love life moments in OJ, we felt we would love life moments in Zephyr. We know a lot more about Zephyr's past due to some very loving and meticulous past captains who kept copious notes and records. When we bought Zephyr we were gifted with 4 MASSIVE binders of maintenance notes, users manuals, ship's logs, past records, hand drawings of chain plates, detailed instructions of rigging - you name it, it's in there somewhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My favorite has been reading the past owners' cruising logs (green spiral book). Detailing where they sailed, who joined them, secret little general store where they ate breakfast, games they played aboard in the rain, swimming holes along the coast of Maine. It's both bittersweet and completely exciting knowing that we will get to do all that soon enough too! There's also great things to learn about Zephyr contained in those pages. What wind conditions she's her best at, what ground types her anchor holds the best in, anchorages she's the best suited for. We feel very grateful to have these records to learn from, it's like all her past captains knew that two young, new cruisers would one day have her and would desperately need these resources! Thanks to all who loved and owned Zephyr in the past! </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Designed by V.S. Lazzara; Berthed August 1, 1978 in Tampa Bay, FL (for more details on the history of Lazzara and the Gulfstar Yacht Company <a href="http://www.jordanyachts.com/archives/2645" target="_blank">check this out</a>).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First owner named her <i>Testa Rosa </i>and she sailed the waters of Florida Bay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At some point she was sold and renamed <i>Dulcinea </i>and hailed from Cape Coral, FL somehow she made her up to New England to Warwick, Rhode Island</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the survey Capt. Reed had done on her in 2000 when he purchased her</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Capt. Reed & his wife renamed her to <i>Summer Time </i>she was moored in Hyannisport, Cape Cod and sailed her extensively all around the Cape, Islands, Narragansett Bay and even in the annual Figawai Race from Hyannis to Nantucket. </span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entry of our boat on the Gulfstar Owner's Website.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In July, 2008 Burleigh and Deb Loveitt bought her in Newburyport, sailed her north to South Portland, renamed her Zephyr and enjoyed many wonderful years cruising all along the Maine coast. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And as you can read in past postings of this blog we found her in May of 2012 and purchased her in August of 2012. We are still deciding if we'll change her name or not, she's been very good to us as Zephyr and we know there are some serious things one must do in order to change a boat's name (think virgin & bow peeing). But the one name we keep coming back to is <i>Grateful </i>because that's the feeling we continuously find ourselves feeling. Grateful for the experience, grateful to the boat for being so stout and sound, grateful to past owners of our boat, grateful to the weather for not (YET) causing us any serious damage, grateful to Mother Ocean for her kindness thus far, grateful to our parents, family and friends for their support, grateful to our bodies and minds to be able to take on this huge life shift, grateful to be able to live in a society that allows us to follow our dreams...the thanks are endless. Oh, and we're also giant Grateful Dead fans! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So Zephyr's story continues with us and it's up to us to keep good records, logs and provide the fodder for many more stories. This is why buying something older is the best - your stories with that car, boat, house only serve to build upon the growing narrative of the story that was begun long ago by others. Boats especially have a soul to them and we're so grateful to share Zephyr's soul. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">Ol' Joe's got a Boston whaler</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">he bought in Key Biscayne</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">He swears since the day he's got her</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">she's been nothing but a pain</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">when the sun's at his back</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">and the winds in his face</span><br style="background-color: white; 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text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">in the middle of a hurricane</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">came out alive on the other side</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">that’s where "the other side" got its name</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">Boats</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">vessels of freedom</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">harbors of heeling</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">boats</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">twenty years of a landlocked job</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">was all that Tom could take</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">sitting at his desk</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">all alone and depressed</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">says this just cant be my fate</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">went home that night and told his wife</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">you can tell all of your friends</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">it's been real but it ain't been fun</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">gonna get us one of them</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">boats</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">vessels of freedom</span><br style="background-color: white; 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Jill, Tim and Toby Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03160785257837276300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500581744225371511.post-4662326211879000012013-01-04T06:00:00.000-08:002013-01-04T08:08:26.069-08:00Deep Freeze and The Deal With The Heat<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> By far one of the most common questions Jill and I get about life aboard is, "What's the deal with the heat?" This question comes from worried moms and dads, friends, boat neighbors, and even others who can not seem to mind their own business. It's okay though because we love telling just about anybody about our rag-tag-jury-rig of a heating system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Good news first because good news is better than bad news. We have air conditioning! This is very useful in this frozen wind swept river where waves crashed six feet high over the docks last week. I honestly wonder if we'll ever use it. It came with the boat and is part of a non-existent heat system that was supposedly part of the boat as well. The previous owner did mention he never used it. It is basically a heat pump manufactured by a now out of business, Eastern Marine Manufacturing. The heat is extracted out of the ocean water...I think. It's been a few months since I tried to fire that bad boy up and investigated any potential solutions. The bottom line is there no heat coil in the heat pump nor is it wired to the controls for heat. So bum deal there...but there is AC and we're able to run the fan on the system for air circulation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> With this great news...Jill and I started looking for alternate heat solutions throughout the fall. Apparently an Espar heater is like the Rolls Royce of heaters. Does anybody else have a Rolls Royce in their basement? Seriously? We got quotes starting at 8k and it just seemed liked a huge investment given our cruising plans (i.e. places where the bathing suits never come off and they put an umbrella in your drink) They are nice and they are the best...but just not in our budget...not this year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> We had an old Lasko electric heater from our old house. This got us through the fall pretty good on those cool nights, but knew it could not handle the deep freeze like we find ourselves here in January. Enter the world of balancing electric loads on the boat's 125v/30 amp shore power service. I could bore you all talking volts and amps...but here's the the quick version...volts is potential energy and amps is the energy being used. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <b> Okay folks...quick math...3 heaters x 12.5 amps = 37.5 amps</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we have 30 amps available to us...again good stuff here Jill and I are learning our first winter. After blowing a few breakers and talking to anyone who would talk to us, we got this all figured out. We can only run two heaters. We still needed to have power to run a the fridge, cell phone chargers, TV, computer, etc. Note, we actually have to unplug one heater to run the coffee pot in the morning...once cruising the coffee pot will most likely be deep sixed(sent overboard) in favor of something more efficient. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The heaters work well and surprisingly keep up with the demands of this harsh environment. We have one in the main salon/galley and one in the aft cabin. They switch between a heat and fan setting and have a heat selection dial for low-high settings. Do not let their size fool you, they crank some serious heat. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGyT8TRqAFTk_zZ6tsVg1JkVJf6ewbt2S1L4hS6flaOxxLEXf9KeWkHJoHNiIR3kom_CzX4X-eonqEabJ_j0C9o524Zdek15Nl_6O3wZ6uFNvpN97wGoX6YWyTNUt422IQput9M-VWKeS/s1600/IMAG0167.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGyT8TRqAFTk_zZ6tsVg1JkVJf6ewbt2S1L4hS6flaOxxLEXf9KeWkHJoHNiIR3kom_CzX4X-eonqEabJ_j0C9o524Zdek15Nl_6O3wZ6uFNvpN97wGoX6YWyTNUt422IQput9M-VWKeS/s320/IMAG0167.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Finally, we picked up a propane <a href="https://www.mrheater.com/product.aspx?catid=41&id=116" target="_blank">"Mr. Heater Big Buddy"</a>. Besides the heat, the surly looking camper on the box is the best part. We use this to help the electric heaters catch up and for heat during my nightmare scenario of the power going out. This is pretty new, so I will keep you posted on how it works out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> We miss our fireplace at the old Dupe, but our boat is warm and cozy even as we head through our first deep freeze aboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Does anybody know what the #1 most common question about living board is?</span></div>
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