Or More Antigua Passage Notes. Decades ago, during one of my very first offshore passages, slogging down the east coast of New England, a familiar Old Salt in a nearby sailing vessel often used the term rock and roll to describe our condition over the radio. He'd say with a twangy drawl, We loooove rock …
Category: upgrades & installs
How We Got Here (part 2 of 2)
In the first part I described how we started this adventure, and not in the sense of casting off, but how it really started. We left off at the point of changing our anticipated date of departure, but had yet to tell everyone in our lives... Sailor Kelly works At Fayaway’s taffrail We were living …
Gobs of Water, Water Everywhere!
Or Zen Update Readers may recall an earlier post about our Zen30 watermaker. A few days ago we took another mid-week sojourn over to one of our favorite local “hangouts”, Isles of Shoals. We had a couple things in mind: foremost, just to get away for a couple days; and second, to complete a project …
Smuttynose and Weather
Map borrowed from Wikipedia; Isles of Shoals is actually part of Kittery, Maine We spent a couple nights aboard Fayaway at the Isles of Shoals last week, for our first time away from Newburyport since splashdown only a few weeks before. We had been out day sailing, and had participated in several club races this …
Shower and Scribbles
Imagine being at anchor, floating easily at a pleasant watery location, not having run the engine for a few days - ah, quiet and tranquil. Imagine also now one of those cooler mornings when the engine-heated water tank has run out of hot (or warm) water. And now you'd enjoy a hot (or at least …
Same-Year Boat Work?!
It was the last week of April, during a discussion with the yard manager, I asked if we could have help modifying the anchor rollor / stem head of Fayaway. We got a great deal last year on a new Rocna anchor, but realized it did not fit well into our existing bow roller. (The …
Shakedown Has Begun
With or without water, we decided to get started. At this time we're without. Lack of it is not stopping us. Fayaway has new equipment that needs water to operate, but plenty more that doesn't. Fayaway has a spankin' new bottom! While we await our new stem-head fitting, we got started with some equipment testing …
Thirteen Ways To Gain Power
We purchased Fayaway in a relatively unadulterated state. She had very few accessories. No autopilot, windlass, sailing instruments (wind, speed, direction), canvas, and not even a cooking stove. Just the bare necessities, and yet two items were quickly removed upon her acquisition: central air conditioning and a dorm-type (110V) refrigerator. She was a dock queen …
Martha’s Vineyard Doesn’t Stink
Herman Melville entered Edgartown Harbor in 1841, after a long voyage aboard the whaling ship Acushnet. Moby Dick was later published in 1851. I'll bet you think this post is about the island southeast of Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts. Or maybe from the first sentence perhaps a brief discourse of Herman Melville? Of course, I'd be …
Salon Table
When we purchased Fayaway, she contained a recently updated salon table which was not what the original builder (Henry Wauquiez) had intended. While it was in nice condition, it used a single pedestal base, simply screwed (x6) to the sole. When at dock the table fit the purpose well, allowed easy access, and looked quite …
