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Visit from Mom & Lisa and Teak Deck (Part 5)

My Mom came to visit us for a few days and we had a blast.  We got to meet her partner Lisa after having heard about her for some time …

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Great Family Stay-cation in the French Quarter, New Orleans

We have been working hard on the boat, spending lots and lots of time ripping up teak, sanding, epoxying, removing screws and repeating for another section.   Between all of …

Sailing to New Orleans – Part 6

In the last blog post we had made it to the Harvey lock and into the Mississippi River after dark. The idea of going through the ICW, and even more …

Sailing Kemah to New Orleans – Part 5

Houma was a great stop, we like the Marina because it has power, water, a pump out and even a play ground right there at the city park downtown next …

Sailing Kemah to New Orleans – Part 4

We left the Morgan City dock in the morning to get in line at the next set of locks.  Deb fixed a great breakfast again with eggs, potato and cheese …

Finally out on the water again !!!

We are going to sail our other boat Last Affair from Houston to New Orleans. We have the little ones on their first multi-day trip so will be taking it …

The Crew Checks out a local Cemetery

One of the things we like most about this adventure of Semi Cruising / Living aboard / Still working, is that we don’t typically stay in one place long enough …

The Crew of DreamChaser go to a day of MardiGras parades

I feel like we haven’t been doing any boat projects lately.  It is just travel, fun, travel, fun, work, travel, fun, repeat.  Not complaining, please understand, but as I put …

Merry Christmas – Enjoy a behind the scenes view on the making of MardiGras

We took a break from projects this week to do a bit of traveling for the Christmas Holiday to visit with our children and grandchildren as well as my mother, …

How to avoid a disastrous return to your boat (Preparing the boat for time away from her)

From time to time Deb and I leave the boat and travel, sometimes together and sometimes only one of us at a time.  As I think most readers of the …