A note about surveys
I'll expand on this another time, but I'm learning something valuable: the quality of a boat survey differs from surveyor to surveyor. As I keep encountering ...

Letting Go of the Holding Tank
My almost worst-case scenario came to pass. "Oh, and I need to show you something," the repair tech said. Up the stairs we climbed to access ...

Keel Repair Progress
Work continues on the damaged keel. As a reminder, the keel kissed a rock in the Victoria, B.C. harbor in 2019. This was not the first ...

Update on Boat Repairs
Keel and bottom paint A few days later finds the boat mostly bottom painted. The keel remains unpainted because additional work is going to be required ...

Haulout Day: The Big Reveal
Today was the big reveal! Today was the day to pull Swoose out of the water so that the keel could be repaired and the bottom ...
Note about toilet and coolant hose!
I can't say often enough how happy we are to have a working toilet and a working engine! Yesterday, we motored over to the pump-out station ...