Turtle

Is no news good news? The ELCI breaker hasn’t tripped in over a year. I have done exactly nothing that may have affected it. Since […]

Our AGM house bank is almost five years old and we’re starting to see signs of lower capacity. On a recent overnight, we used 39% […]

Again, a pretty uneventful trip this year. The XO had to work on the 25th and 26th, so we went and dropped off a car […]

This is not a boating post – other than it takes place on an island. If you came for riveting pictures of Turtle’s bilge, there’s […]

“It all started with the pigeons…” my wife will say sadly to the police officer, as they bundle me into the back of a white […]

The Starlink just stopped working. The app said there was a cable failure between the dish and the router. This is a very short run […]

We’ve had two sets of gelcoat issues on Turtle. First, we’ve had a number of chips and holes, primarily along raised edges. These happened during […]

We spent 11 days exploring the Canadian Gulf and San Juan Islands this summer. There were many firsts on this trip – first time visiting […]

The FCI water maker high pressure pump needed an oil change at 50 hours. We were just short of 50 hours, but I wanted to […]

I still have never changed the oil in our trusty dinghy Mack. The logistics of getting it out of the outboard without a spill have […]