ROAM is at the Deltaville Boat Yard, getting some needed TLC. We’ve been in “maintentance mode” now for over two months and we’re ready to get back in “cruising mode” again. We’re tired, but we’ve accomplished much during our time here and Roam is much better for the effort. Here’s a list of what we’ve…
We returned from the Bahamas in early May so that we could give Roam a good Spa Treatment before we headed north for the summer. The first stop was in Palm Beach to haul her out of the water for bottom paint and to repair some damage to the port stabilizer which occurred during the…
We were were anxious to get away from Florida, but not because we don’t like Florida. We were rushing to push off because we have noticed that it is too easy to get stuck at the dock, fixing “JUST ONE LAST THING!” It is especially dangerous if you’re having a vendor do work for you….
We’ve been through this before. You buy a boat (new or used – it doesn’t matter) and you spend the first two to twelve months (sometimes longer!) fixing broken gadgets, adding new thingies, and making it a comfortable space for you to be in. In 30+ years of owning multiple boats, I’ve never been able…
The last few months have been a whirlwind of activity. I could write a book, but instead, I’ll provide a very quick summary: August 2019: Accepted a contract for the sale of our 47 foot Nordhavn, which we had cruised to Texas for the summer. September 2019: After looking at boats in Seattle and Alaska,…
We recently upgraded Roam to include autostart on our generator. This means that if the batteries ever get low, the generator will come on automatically to charge the batteries and then shut down when the batteries are fully charged. That’s a huge deal on a boat like ours because the 1800 amp/hr battery bank usually…
To be honest, on our last boat (a 40 foot Manta sailing catamaran called Double Wide) I never did a shakedown sail before any of our extended cruises. We just fixed what we knew was broken (if we thought it was important), loaded the boat with groceries, and set out for new adventures. But ROAM,…
August 27 We left Stuart and the slimy green, and dangerously toxic, water surrounding Sunset Bay Marina (not the marina’s fault – I blame “Big Sugar” for the serious pollution of Lake Okeechobee and the St. Lucie River). We managed to shimmy past the shoaling at “The Crossroads” which is where the ICW and the…
On Monday, July 11, we took Roam down to West Palm Beach to be pulled out of the water at Seminole Marine for a bottom job and to do a couple of other projects. We were pulled before lunch and quickly realized why Seminole Marine was had so few boats in the yard — it is…
We will be leaving for Texas tomorrow (5/30), so we need to wrap up a few things before we go. The bottom paint is really tired, so I wanted to get the boat out of the nasty, slimy river water that slips past us here at Sunset Bay Marina in Stuart so that I could…
