Bubba the Pirate

The Westsail Sistership next door They parked a nice looking Westsail 32 right next to Emma and me last week. Today a marine surveyor...

Aveling & Porter Steamroller Frank Perkins and Charles Chapman were working on a high speed, lightweight diesel engine at Aveling ...

My former self would just not understand. I used to be a Live Music Addict. My life was coordinated for maximum enjoyment of watching good...

Riverside Marina is really a boatyard. That sentence could have ended -- ‘really just a boatyard,’ but boatyards are important to sailors....

One day last week, I had gotten up early enough to make a big breakfast. Dispatch had flipped (flopped?) my schedule to afternoon. My ...

Man(!)  ...  it’s hard to break free of 'the system.' Just getting and maintaining a decent part-time job is not easy.  So it turns...

This strange afternoon on the road was the perfect sequel to my recent post: Five Crows, an Eagle, a Skunk and an Umbrella. I was having...

Moon over the boatyard. Long ago, I decided that I'm not interested in getting ahead, I just want to break even. It's a good thi...

Grandma and Granddad were teachers, and in retirement they spent their winters at an RV resort in Nokomis, FL. When they arrived, Grandma ...

Two posts ago, I described my travels to Annapolis for a couple seminars. I stayed at an AirBnB which was about 2.5 miles from where the s...

Based on my most recent overall plan, I hit the road really hard for the last 14 months. I was staying out in the truck three weeks at a t...

So … this weekend I learned the Rogerson Variation of the the McDonald Brummel splice for high modulus polyethylene fiber cordage! W...

Last month I was in town and cleaned any non-essential things out of my truck in anticipation of quitting. At the time, the gasket mate...

I might actually miss the ol' Mack.  In a few days, the next facet of my journey begins. I’m ending my Over-the-Road driving care...