Nugland

Meinke Marina West in Curtice, Ohio, to be exact. I nailed down slip B-106, which seems like a nice one. It includes water and electricity for a whopping $675.00 a year. Hauling the boat off the Brownell trailer (and onto these blocks) set me back all of $108.

Now I have to get the paint removed, then paint it afresh… Continue reading

And headed for Curtice, Ohio. We’ll meet up with it in a few hours… Continue reading

We’ve been buying up a bunch of odds and ends that happen to celebrate various centennials. A little cutesy, yeah, but it has provided some amusement. Here‘s a link to pictures of most of the stuff. Enjoy?… Continue reading

I was able to complete my CG-1258 and include notarized copies of CG-1270 and CG-1340 (and a $92 check). On their way to the Coast Guard now.

(Dang, I own a boat.)… Continue reading | 1 Comment

I own that. It’ll be here (well, in Ohio) on the 29th… Continue reading | 1 Comment

We mixed up and fried some onion bhajis on Sunday. Wow, were they tasty… Continue reading

I’ve been scoping out kerosene stoves for eventual use on a sailboat, and I keep coming across various BTU ratings for them.

A little investigation reveals that the unit they are really talking about is “BTUs per hour”. A single BTU, according to Wikipedia:

A BTU is defined as the amount of heat required to… Continue reading