Bubba the Pirate

I can still feel the undulating rhythm; the random thud into the trough of a wave.  Standing at the forestay, tiller tied amidship, Saraso...

Not the Heinz 57 variety, but a good old fashioned bring you up to speed "catch up."  Rather than continue the slog to provide c...

The road undulates over the hills. Pastures, farms and patches of forest alternately flys by just over the ditch on either side of the hi...

Back in 2006, I was working with a Life Coach on my career options. She was very good and we dug deep. Despite working on a career transit...

I'm starting to think that they built this boat without even considering that someday someone would take it apart. All the deck hardwar...

Whoever thought that my Trucker Tools would come in handy while working on the boat? The Rub Rail and the Toe Rail have been removed from th...

I haven't been on an assembly line in a long time. This week I set up to epoxy coat each side of the backing plate parts I had made. Th...

In the last couple weeks, I decided to bite the bullet and get new ports. I knew I had to, really. In an effort to hit a price point in th...

Some days you just have to take the good with the bad and keeping going. Besides, its still April. I shouldn't even be able to work on...

A new year begins! Another belated post, but two weeks ago, it was a beautiful sunny day. I went running down to Douglas and uncovered my ...

This is a belated Year End Wrap for 2009. The most important event of the year was the moving of the boat. I'm saying "the boat...

Thanks for stopping by. Content is not yet flowing. I've been blogging at Sailorbum.blogspot.com. In building a potential future br...

In Trucking, as in Sailing, Fearless and Stupid are first cousins. ~ Cap'n Bubba

I have made another change. I switched companies and am driving for a regional carrier. The deal is that I'll be out 5 days and back for...

The same night that storms raged across Michigan, including the one that tossed a baby out with the rain water, Dad and I were driving up to...

Well, I hit the wall in Bay City trying to find work to fill in the Boat Refit. It was spooky the way the economy in Michigan $%^&-can...

Monday and Tuesday, I was on my belly reaching as far as I could, forward and aft, scooping black mayonaise out of the bilges. The PO had an...

I have been in Bay City for a week or so. The place I found is an big old house near downtown with an interesting cast of characters. I'...

Sometimes, even for an atheist, the universe seems to be sending a message. Either that or you just need to be good where ever you go. I had...

After a long drive last night, I made it to Bay City. It was a psychological victory to just put my head down and keep going. It wasn't ...

Damn, April Snow! I went to the store Monday with no socks in my shoes; I got the last six snaps on my tonneau cover snapped again; and I ...

This morning, the beginning of the first week of my new adventure, birds were singing and the sun was up. It was an awakening of a new sort....

My last day in the rat race was friday! It took three guys and four parties to get rid of me. Last Saturday night, Junior and the Igniters...

I never really gave up on getting back on the water. I have plotted and planned, wished and dreamed, fixed and schemed for many years. L...