WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU
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.
- Thoughts on the cruising lifestyle?
- Do you have an favorite sailing destination or a place you think we should avoid?
- Send us your favorite recipe.
- Have you read any good books lately?
- What would you like to know about us?
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Mark and Cindy
A couple things of interest. First, on the generator story: Not your fault. I’m sorry, if a normal preventive maintenance function like checking the oil has the potential to cause that much mayhem, that’s a design flaw of the highest order. Onan should be mailing you random parts as gifts and begging you to keep your mouth shut! Bad On an! Bad designer! Down!! Stay…!
Also, the comment section being separate from the post is clean, yes… But on a mobile platform its really hard to use. I bet you miss a fair number of possible interactions from readers like me, who sometimes just can’t get it to function.
I love your blog, but it’s design is “blogger friendly” at the expence of reader friendliness, IMO.
And finally, we’re moving again! Eye is healing, and Sionna is running great. Warmer weather here we come! Thanks for blogging, see you soon!
Yeah. We’re a little challenged when it come to this fancy internet stuff. We thought we had a mobile version of the page that worked but I guess it is not working. Thanks for letting us know.
If it is easier for you, you can follow us on Facebook. Our Facebook page updates automatically with each blog post. https://www.facebook.com/svcreampuff
Glad you guys are moving again and the prop is stay on. Safe travels!
Mark
“Onan should be mailing you random parts as gifts”
Ha! That’ll happen when a flying pig lands on our rig with a fish in its mouth.
“Circus Act” – I laughed out loud in the middle of the cafe and everybody stared at me… Great term! That and “Cumpass Jack” – I’ll be borrowing that one too.
Sionna is docked in Charleston, South Carolina at the moment, waiting to see if the second attempt to repair my detached Retina is going to stick. And I’m with you, winter is catching up with us and we don’t like it! The sooner we get underway again the happpier we’ll be.
Loving folllowing your journey – come visit “‘Til the Butter Melts” (www.sionnablog.wordpress.com) if you’re not already, we’ve described some of our own Circus Acts for your reading pleasure! Hope we catch up with you some day!
We did check out the blog. Thanks for sharing. Best of luck with the surgery.
We hope to catch you one day soon at sunset in a nice cove sipping an adult appropriate beverage
Mark and Cindy
Hi Mark, I enjoyed your post about Captain Ray. I love hearing boating stories. Your experience with Barry reminded me of a quote from a Looper’s blog. (Sometimes you’re the show; and sometimes you’re the audience.”
Docking can be a breeze or it can be absolutely harrowing. My hubby has rescued a couple captains in our marina after several docking attempts left them rattled.
Hi Marie,
Yes, Captain Ray was quite a storyteller.
We too have had our share of questionable dockings. One time on Water-Melon, we hit the dock so hard it knocked the dock box over. Cindy coined a phrase, “stepping off the boat without having to activate an EPRIB isn’t all bad”.
Mark and Cindy,
I’ve been following your blog from the beginning and hope to one day be able to do something similar. Just by chance, I have some meetings this week in Tampa and if scheduling allows I would love to meet you and S/V Creampuff in person. If not, no big deal as I know it’s last minute (plus it seems kinda weird to be meeting strangers from the internet!).
Regardless – I enjoy your blog and your adventures. Keep it up!
PM Sent.
Mark and Cindy,
We have enjoyed reading the blog and look forward soon to chuckin’ it all away. We recently purchase a SM 215 through Joel. The boat is currently in Ft. Lauderdale, while we are out of state getting ready to go. This leaves me a lot of time thinking about what I’d like to do to the boat however, wisdom states that we should spend time on the boat before changing anything.
We’d love to chat with you sometime regarding and tap into your experience. Keep the posts coming.
Best Wishes,
Paul and Tanya
s/v Trillium SM215
Yey! Someone else taking the plunge 🙂
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That’s a sweet looking new ride!
Hi Mark,
I’ve enjoyed your blog. My sympathies on the project stalls. It is so frustrating not to be able to check a project off the list and have to look at it almost done every day.
I wanted to give you a heads up on another “feature” of the SHURFLO oil removal system. Ours has two stages of extraction tubing — a wider diameter hose at the pump and a thin, stiffer tube to snake into the oil pan. When you reverse the pump to empty the big white bucket, only use the wider diameter hose. The pump is very capable of blowing the thin tube out the end of the hose and spraying oil everywhere. You can imagine how I know that.
David,
Thanks for the heads up. However, I do not think this pump has a reverse. The bucket is emptied via a pour spout. Perhaps they have a couple of different models out there.
Mark
We’re here in New Bedford, MA, waiting for “your” storm to pass so we can continue south. Our first storm since moving aboard, so even if it’s not a big deal, it’s kind of a big deal!
Hi Keith and Nicki,
Good luck with Hermine. The current spaghetti models don’t have a clue about where this is going once it get to your area. Hopefully it will not impact you. We checked out your blog. Glad to see others taking the plunge into this wacky way of life. We hope to see you out here one day. Be sure to give us a shout when you see us on the horizon 🙂
Mark and Cindy
Oh, such a discouraging time! I hope Cindy will share your experiences with these manufacturers on the WWS Facebook page. We like to know which folks to avoid when purchasing products and these stories are unfortunately all too common in the marine world. I think Practical Sailor has an area in their publication for reporting both good and bad experiences as well. It’s the only kind of pressure that works to solve these ubiquitous issues. Hope you are surviving that killing heat. Soon it will be November. If a place could look hot in photos, that place does.
Hello Mark and Cindy,
We have enjoyed your blog, and your travels as we have followed along. It sure looks like you are having a great time, the Bahamas are really beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I have a few questions for you, it would be great to talk to you. If you can, please contact me and maybe we can set something up.
Thanks
Chris and Joyce
SV Saltrun
Chris and Joyce,
Sure thing. PM sent.
Mark & Cindy
Hey Mark – why second thoughts about Cuba? We have just recently returned from our second trip there. If you are considering going, why not enter our race from Pensacola to Havana – see http://www.pensacolahavanarace.com/ we are hopign to get some more “big boats”. Also, you don’t have to go to Hemingway – we bypassed it completely on our last trip (which was legal and under a USCG Permit). For more info on our trip see http://midnightsunii.blogspot.com/2016/06/our-time-in-cuba-los-morros-to-veradero.html
Hi Neil,
Thanks for the info. The Pensacola Havana race sounds like it would be fun but we hope to be in the Virgin Islands by April. We do not need a USCG Permit as we are flagged BVI. I’m not sure they would issue a permit for a foreign flagged boat.
We would really like to go to Cuba and haven’t completely ruled it out, yet. However, we also think there are other areas of the world that may be more welcoming and a lot less red tape. We’ll see how it pans out.
Thanks for the note.
We wish you fair seas and beam winds.
Mark and Cindy