Oil on Troubled Waters ~ Part 2
Storm Tactics In part one “Oil On Troubled Waters” I pretty much convinced myself that “Colony II” should be kitted up to deploy storm oil before we venture offshore again. Maybe you’re feeling the same way? Ok, let’s do this then. Alas...
Oil On Troubled Waters ~ Storm Tactics
A highlight of being a liveaboard sailor is the dock chatter that comes your way some mornings. This morning, something along the lines of, “What the country needs now,” I said “is a little oil on the water,” got me a blank stare and an inquisitive tilt of head. ...
Launch the Long Boats
So it seems to me ~ Day 67 The voyage to nowhere has entered the doldrums of confused seas. That makes little sense, you say, doldrums and confused seas? Yeah, exactly. What started out for us to be a challenge, even a slightly heroic exercise in...
Voyage to Nowhere — Forced Change
Day 45 ~ Forced Change Things that force you to change. You wouldn’t do it otherwise, even though you might think “yeah I’m gonna do that,” but well you just don’t right now because you don’t have to. So yep, there can be an upside to bad...
Day 33 — Voyage to Nowhere — Storm Tactics
Well, it’s been about ten days since the last post and it seems the notion that people are getting antsy to get things back moving again has taken hold. This is a thing that happens when you’ve hove to in a storm for a while. When it’s bad and you’re in the middle of the fury, you’re glad as hell for the respite you’ve gained with the tactic. It’s really not great, but it’s way better than bashing downwind
Anchors Away
My name is Bill and I’m an Anchor-holic, or so I’ve been accused. I confess, not counting the little dinghy anchors, there are 10 aboard Colony II. “Ten!? … where do you put ten anchors?” a reasonable person could reasonably wonder. I can explain quite reasonably, mostly.
Day 23 — Voyage to Nowhere — Getting our Wits
Eighty degrees by 10 AM with a westerly breeze at 9 knots and a zero percent chance of rain; I think we’ll fly an imaginary spinnaker today and make good weather of it. Maybe that would be a good thing to get started on researching today, a real spinnaker. I’ve been intrigued with the idea for quite some time to give ol’ Colony II better light air
Day 20 — Voyage to Nowhere — Steering Clear
If this wasn’t a voyage to nowhere I’d have to crank up the diesel to make any miles. It’s almost a non-day, so far at least. Nothing seems to have made any progress. Not nothing altogether I suppose, I did manage to get a decent night’s sleep so that’s an unusual plus for me.
