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Posts from ‘July, 2010’

Tricks of the trade

I had totally forgotten this little trick after storing my cans in a regular old cupboard the past few years. In a standard household cabinet, you only need to look at the label on the can to know what delicious bits are stored inside. So easy, huh? Not so on a boat. On Wondertime, like [...]

Liveaboards

It’s official! We are liveaboards again. Truthfully, I was really nervous about how this was all going to work out but after four days of being on Wondertime full-time, I can say that my worries have not come to pass. The boat’s lockers are swallowing all our stuff, with plenty of room to spare. The [...]

Stuff it.

Day and night, for weeks on end we’ve been sorting, tossing, packing, stacking, moving, cleaning, selling, giving away, organizing, and analyzing each and every item we own. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Or maybe it’s not. It sure feels like that’s what we’ve been doing. We have lived on land for three [...]

Dodger…check!

One thing that has been glaringly missing from Wondertime all this time is a nice sturdy dodger, both to shield us from rain and spray but also to have some shade from the bright sun we eventually hope to see. Our dock neighbor recently had a dodger built by Randy’s Boat Tops of Olympia and [...]