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I know this is against the norm in the blogging world but, I try to keep the site clean and easy to read for our reader’s enjoyment. For this reason, I opted to keep comments to one page. We would love to hear from you. Do not let my wacky thought process deter you from expressing your feelings regarding our postings or another items of interest you want to share.
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Mark and Cindy
Merry Belated Christmas and Happy New Year to you Both!
Mark, on the loosing bolts on the hatch, Add a bit of nail polish to the threads and tighten, then a bit more to the bolt and nut where they join. The nail polish is a alternative to thread locker I have used in the past. I does a good job – not sure how it will hold up in the salt air. I have enjoyed your adventures (by your most excellent blog) and have been extremely impress with all the projects! Smooth sailing and great luck fishing. Just remember a bad day of fishing is better that a good day at work! Thom
Oh mighty wise one. Do you really think we have nail polish aboard 🙂
Merry Christmas Mark and Cindy – we have been following your blog and progress. We recently returned from a trip to Cuba, and are now in the throws of a significant re-fit. I would be interested in how your trip to the Chesapeake compared to the Bahamas – we have done the Bahamas and are planning to set off again sometime in 2016. Depending on the date, we may head north, or simply hang out until later in the year and go straight to the Bahamas
Lovely photos like that keep me going! Merry Christmas!
Thank you Melissa! We have fun taking photos. Writing “Merry Christmas” in the sand was harder than we thought. It kept getting washed away before we could get it finished and take the photo. 🙂 It was a fun day.
It is always great to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by the blog.
Merry Christmas to you as well.
Merry Christmas Mark! We have enjoyed your sailing stories this year! My 4 year old twins are very entertained by your journey and have actually shown some of your pictures for “show and tell” at their school. They have told the other kids you are a true “pirate”, ha ha. Let us know if you find any gold coins out there. Safe travels and keep us posted on your adventure. – Toby
Hi Toby, Great to hear from you. No gold coins, yet. We are glad we can contribute to your kids education 🙂
Do left over laundry tokens count? They are gold. 🙂
Had to laugh out loud about your fishing story. Mike grew up lake fishing. Around here, people fish for things like salmon and halibut. He’s never caught any. I’ve bought him books, we’ve dragged lines behind the boat, nothing. The fish shun him. He did catch a dogfish this summer, and that was exciting. And a couple of rockfish, which are dead easy to catch. Sure hope his luck changes when we are too far from costco to make a run.
Yay! a new post from Cream Puff in my mail box this morning. I so love reading about your adventures and seeing the beautiful images. Glad the passage to the Bahamas went safely.
Thanks for the comment Kathy. You made our day.
Mark and Cindy
ps – we love the new look of your web site 🙂
Honestly I am so impressed with you two! I recently deployed the old cockpit canvas on Galapagos to weather the rainy season and realized that half of the snaps are missing. The other half are falling out.. Mike put his foot through the canvas early on when we owned the boat and that repair is failing. Believe me, we need new canvas. But I cannot wrap my head around making it myself. I used to sew a lot but I look at that kind of project now and it just makes me tired to think about it. You guys did an awesome job.
Thanks Melissa. We owe a lot of the project planning to SailRite and their tutorial videos. The sewing machine is a tank and will easily sew through 10 layers of canvas. It handled this project with ease.
Wow!! I am so impressed with your canvas work! It looks incredible. I think you guys could turn professional and put that sewing machine to work doing projects for other cruisers 🙂
Hi Ellen,
Thanks for the kind words.
If we factor in the time it took us to make this and we did this “professionally” for a living, we could make as much as 10 cents an hour.
Had a good chuckle from your post about wine. Here in the great north there are similar variations in buying alcohol from province to province but if you ever make it to Quebec where we live you can buy your beer and wine (not necessarily the good stuff) at any corner conveninece store any day of the week. Raising a glass to your health.
Cheers!
Well done on fixing the engine – very impressive! I’ve started to stock up on food this month too. I’ve got cans everywhere! It’s costing a bit of money now, but means we won’t have to shell so much out on groceries once we’re in the Bahamas.
Ah yes. Stock up on food now so you will have more money for rum later 🙂