We have a list of items that we MUST finish before we go cruising in the spring.  One of them was to get the name of our boat, on our boat. With the swim platform off and having access to a floating platform we thought this would be a good time to take care of […]

The new water lines are working great when we are connected to the city’s water pressure but I ran into a problem when we left the dock and switched the water system over to the pump that we have on board. The on board water pump takes water from our tanks and provides water pressure […]

Our boat is 34 years old which means that the water lines are also that old.  Most of them anyway.  We have city water attached to the boat.  If any of the old water lines were to break then a never ending supply of water would gush into our bilges. We have safety valves for […]

It’s so hard to believe that we’ve been back in Louisiana for a year already. We are docked in a small marina located on the Tchefuncte River in Madisonville, LA, just North of New Orleans. We have a lot of catching up to do on our blog, but for now we will share some highlights […]

For a very non imaginative reason we named our dinghy patches.  I think we have about 15 different sized, and colored, patches on her now and she seems to be able to hold air for just over 24 hours which we consider to be a vast improvement. Patches resides comfortably on top of the boat […]

7/11/2014 Sawmill Marina Madisonville, LA The boat work continues.  It has been just over a year since we purchased this boat and we knew we would have a two year refit before we could go cruising again. When you purchase a boat that is far below its book value, you have to expect that a […]

We pulled our boat out of its slip and made our way 500 yards down river to the Madisonville riverfront.  We wanted front row seats to the fireworks show and we ended up being waaaayyyyy closer to the action than we ever anticipated. The city moved the location of the pyrotechnic launching area to a […]

While Roxanne is finishing the post that basically catches our story up on where we are today, I thought I would put a few posts up on the website of what we have been up to lately. Living on a boat is always interesting.  My wife and I were enjoying a nice glass of merlot […]

Roxanne and I loaded up our meager belongings into our minivan in preparation to move aboard. Logan stayed in Louisiana with family and would join us once we made the boat livable. The new boat was docked in a slip at a boat yard in St. Petersburg, Florida. With its industrial nature the boat yard […]

Skeeter and I exited from the interstate and worked our way back towards my parent’s subdivision. Beautiful homes and perfectly manicured lawns lined the streets surely making it difficult for any judge to select a “yard of the month.” Mom busied herself in the kitchen tending to the last few items before supper time. Skeeter’s […]