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I’m sitting here on SYL drinking my coffee in the morning fog…. not me, it’s actually foggy outside on our last day of provisioning / sail prep as we leave for the Bahamas tomorrow (when the morning fog lifts) My senses are actually on a keen edge I have things on land that must be […]

OK…. so lots to say here! Linda decided she wanted to go sailing again so we started getting SYL ready for a 2019 Bahama trip. At about the halfway mark on SYLs refit Linda had another thought…. let’s sell out this time! So…. we stopped working on the boat and began house renovations. (That was […]

Well, I’m on the Bayou but definitely not in Louisiana. After my Diamond Green Diesel job finished, a good friend wanted me come to Texas and do a job with him.  This chemical plant makes chicken feed and the base ingredient for carpet (AcryloNitrile)   It doesn’t smell as bad as a crude oil refinery but […]

Excitedly bobbing toward that first sandy beach of the trip in your dinghy…. super excited as you leave the mother ship for the first time (this trip) to walk the “remote beaches of the world”…  You can see it with your own eyeballs!  That special place you dreamed of, where it’s easy to imagine being the […]

My past two posts represent only a factual summary of recent life events.  Sometimes when things come at you quickly… facts are all you can share.  The further you get from the situation, the easier it becomes to share the emotions of it.  I’d like to take a moment to add some color commentary if you will….  do some […]

This has been a very active hurricane season on the Texas gulf coast.  As many of you know my son Jonathon lives on a boat and was currently in Puerto Rico when Maria came through!  Long story short Jono lost his home / boat to the 180 mph winds.  She was blown sideways into the […]

Life has been coming at us like bowling balls lately…  I’ll try to catch you up.  This whirlwind version will leave out many emotions and details, but you will get the gist of it. Houston and Beaumont got record rainfalls during Harvey, many areas got a full years rainfall in 3 days.  Houston’s heavier areas got […]

This historic event created by Hurricane Harvey is enormous.  It’s hard to wrap your head around it, 6 million people (just in Houston) are flooded, many of them tragically.  Being an old guy…. I have some human observations I’d like to share: I’ll be interested to see how many looters survive in Texas.  After Katrina the rats that feast on heartache swarmed New Orleans.  […]

Its been a long time since I posted…. what I’d like to advise is that people new to this site look at “older posts” and check out the real reason we started this website. Sailing the Bahamas in our Catamaran “Sea Yawl Later”. Some nice pictures in there… enjoy.

The boat project is going well, there are more hours involved in the re-purposing than I expected but it’s been fun.  Here you can see the box the mattress fits in.I have all the wood on the bottom and 5 coats of varnish laid down now.  Sanding between coats has my arms looking like Popeye […]