Thistle just celebrated her 28th birthday and the plastic in the hatches and portlights was really showing its age, so when we were in Ca...

We put Thistle on the hard November 26th, emptied the fridge, cleaned her up, made lists of things to bring back from California, and flew h...

Ta-Dah! The galley project is finished. On the left is the Vitrifrigo DW70 freezer with a cupboard below for its small Danfoss compressor ...

Here 's a photo of the boat during the installation of the new refrigeration system - and this is why you can't live aboard during a...

This will be a long post detailing a long project. If you want to replace your refrigeration I would recommend you first empty all the galle...

Some of our boat projects are messy interior things which would have made living aboard difficult, so we asked around (through Women Who Sai...

We've got the boat yard blues.... You may wonder what we've been doing in the three weeks since we've been back to the boat....

Yesterday there were whitecaps in the harbor even though the wind was coming from the NNE and the breakwater offers protection from that...

In our last post we told you about being towed into the Connecticut River. We are happy to report that the Drive Saver has been replaced! Af...

Here is the new shaft seal above the old one. The new seal is a traditional type that uses four rings of oakum (flax impregnated with wa...

Soooooooo, when we were coming up the Chesapeake towards Washington DC, the dripless shaft seal wasn't dripping, it was gushing! A l...