Author: sailorphil

New paint and other upgrades. I am a sucker for punishment, but truthfully I just love working on boats and being in a boat yard, I complain about it a lot, but I think that is just so other people don’t think I am having too much fun! So I escaped Canada on January 25th, a day before the new… Continue reading "Painting, Again…"

Well Hello everyone, I am sorry that I do not update this more often. Michelle and I are anchored just off of Key West, riding out the Covid pandemic from here. We are very lucky that friends of ours here leased us a dingy dock prior to the shutdown, this allows us to legally go ashore and get groceries and… Continue reading "April 23, 2020"

Just like last season, we found ourselves doing some repairs in Miami, last season it was autopilot and fuel Injection Pump, this year we have a small leak we are fighting at the stern tube, the motor was out of alignment when we purchased the boat and it had apparently cracked the tube where it meets the hull, the leak… Continue reading "Miami again"

Hello Everyone It has been a while since I updated, although there are some new videos in the link above, a lot of videos were disallowed by Youtube as I had the radio on in the background, so some of those I had to put on the facebook page. After saying goodbye to Roy, who visited for a week, Roy… Continue reading "Now in Eluthera"

If you want to see my silly videos click the VIDEO button at the top of the page! Michelle and I are now in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It is raining again…. We are visiting our friend Ed, who we met in Key West a few years ago, his boat is at a pretty swanky marina here in Hilton Head,… Continue reading "Friends along the way"

Hello everyone, I haven’t typed much since we left Parry Sound on Labour Day.  Truthfully the days get taken up by repairing the boat and just trying to do everyday tasks like laundry, groceries ect…  When I do get some time at anchor to type or update the site, we do not have wifi access, half the time we do… Continue reading "The Journey so far…"