Author Archives: Mark
Please Cancel Our Mail, Forever
There was a great Seinfeld episode (Season 9 – Episode 5) where Kramer tries to cancel his mail, forever. Here’s a clip certain to bring a smile to your face: (click here or below) I have just gone through a similar experience. Our friends often ask us how we will get our mail once […]
Big News – We’re Both Unemployed!
Today is a very special day. Cindy sold her company and we have just returned from the closing. I’m sure Cindy will add to this later, but knowing her as I do, she will not pat herself on the back. She started her company from scratch with nothing more than an idea. The first day […]
Charleston, SC
We just took a little side trip by car (not that there is anything wrong with that) to Charleston, South Carolina. For some fun pictures and a walking tour, please click here
Our Boat Stinks!
Peeeeee-yew! That’s what our neighbors are saying about Cream Puff. We have a pet Osprey who enjoys using the very top of our mizzen mast (rear shorter mast) as a dining room table. Ospreys eat fish. They are messy eaters. All the lovely parts of the fish the osprey doesn’t eat, like the guts, head […]
Taking Out The Trash
We are systematically looking at every item in our house and making a tough assessment. We ask ourselves, do we: Take it to the boat? Put it in a storage unit? Donate it to charity? Put it in the trash? For the past 2 weeks, we worked on the last item: trash. It is […]
Downsizing
The pictures pretty much say it all…..
Time to Change the Batteries
When away from the dock, our on-board systems are powered by a series of batteries. The systems include are our refrigeration/freezers, fresh water pressure pump, lighting, bilge pumps, navigation equipment, auto pilot, lights, fans and so forth. Cindy and I tend to be little energy hogs. At any given time, we will have a couple […]
Hallelujah
The final chapter of the Geeky stuff: The Signal Side-Band radio (SSB) is working ~ I think. I spent some time last week getting the SSB working. Ed, my H.A.M. friend, gave me a bunch of stuff. He also gave me awesome advice. Ed is retired Coast Guard and rebuilds vintage aircraft radios for […]
Cover Girl
Cream Puff has made her super model cover debut No one is more surprised than me about the number of readers our blog attracts. We have about 2,000 people per month check us out from all over the world and over 100 subscribers have updates delivered directly into their email in boxes. I guess […]
All Is Lost
So, I watched the movie. Cindy didn’t want to watch it. Cindy, as it turns out, is the smarter one. What do I have in common with Robert Redford? We both lost something. He lost his boat and I lost one hundred and six minutes of my life. Cindy’s decision not to watch was […]
New Neighbors
Well, the rent in our neighborhood just went up. Check out our new neighbors. This is truly well into the yacht classification. This 145 foot Christensen yacht is new to the current owner. The original owner kept the yacht on the East coast of Florida. The new owner is a St. Petersburg local resident. The […]
Hmm! Not What I Expected
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you already know I have been selling our home wares on eBay and Craigslist in preparation for our move aboard Cream Puff. As I get money in my PayPal account, I purchase something on the wish list for Cream Puff. So far ~ knock on […]
What Are The Odds?
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Bogart’s famous line from Casablanca: “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine” Of all the stores in all the towns and all the cards on all the shelves in all the world, what are the odds Cindy and I would pick […]
Big Bend Power Station
We took a little side trip this week to Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach, Florida. Why on earth would we go to a power station you may ask? Well, it was a cold day and the Tampa Bay water is below 68 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the location of a power station using […]
SSB Radio
Have I told you lately how much I hate my SSB radio? This continues to be the project from hell. I have just spent the last 6 days installing the final components during which my body was upside-down, pretzelized, compacted, stretched and turned inside out. I am now convince to be capable of installing electronic […]
