Peddock's Island

a view from afar

Now here is a fun post. When my Father and Grandfather were here a few weeks back we were out sailing in the harbor when our friends Jeff and Kristi spotted us on their way out of the harbor. They live on a big ol Irwin and were motoring out to the outer harbor so they could sail free of the islands and harbor traffic, but they had so much fun they spent two days out there before coming back home haha. In the meantime they snapped some photos as they were passing us.








Thanks Jeff and Kristi! Also, their liveaboard blog can be found at the right side of the page titled "As You Wish" (their boat's name).

a poor neglected blog this is...

Hehe, well, I guess I know some people who are much worse about updating regularly. I've been in northern New Hampshire for a couple weeks at an archaeology field school. That was awesome, but doesn't have much to do with boating/sailing.

In the meantime though, Jenny watched over Madrigal and over Willie. All three of them survived with flying colors.

The Fitz, on the other hand, I took across town to have hauled out on my last day before I went up north. Our friend Joanne helped with that since Jenny had to be at work that day. It is now dry docked at continental marine.

Here are some rather sad pictures for us, the end of the fitz as we knew it:










Those couple pics in the middle with the cityscape off the stern are by far the saddest.


Anyhow, I have happier things to post, but I'll pass on that for now. Jenny got a new video camera called a "flip". It takes an hour of digital video, pretty decent quality, and is only the size of a standard digital camera. It uploads very easily and is entirely USB based. So hopefully that will bring some fun video to our blog soon.

Cheers!
-Justin

a grand visit

Well, lots and lots and lots of things have been happening. First and most important is that my grandfather finally was able to come out here for a visit from Michigan. He'd never been on a plane before and though he hasn't seen the ocean since he was a kid in the 1940's he's always been very fond of all things oceanic and nautical. He spent lots of time on the great lakes in his boating heyday and I grew up fishing with him on little inland lakes. Him finally making it out here and getting a turn at the helm of a real ocean-going sailboat is a landmark occasion.

Other news is all pretty large as well.

1. We've fully moved aboard Madrigal!
2. The Fitz is being hauled out and drydocked this Friday at 3:00
3. There is a couple who is highly interested in purchasing the Fitz to live aboard in Boston harbor: a good way to see the boat go. It was good to us and we'll miss it.
4. Excluding the head and the trim which will hold up the headliner when we get it installed, all the interior woodwork on Madrigal has now been refinished.
5. We did our first overnighter sailing trip to Peddocks Island with a group of about 6 other boats from our marina. Tons of fun, but it was kinda rainy and we forgot to take pictures. oops. All went off pretty flawlessly though.

-Justin

tip top

It's late at night, so I'll be short with the words.

I went up the mast for the first time and placed a windvane on top to help us amateur sailors. Afterwards we cooked some flounder that a fellow liveaboard caught. Tasty.

Unfinished Business

Both Justin and I had 5 days off together, so we spent nearly all of that time working on Madrigal. We've gotten quite far in the sanding/refinishing of the main cabin...we're quite happy thus far.

Anyway, I took some pictures of it before we put the 3 coats of varnish on, so I figured I'd post those for now. I haven't taken any pictures of it since it's been varnished, but I'm sure in the next couple of days those will be up here too.







More soon!

-Jenny

vikingligr veldi

Those who know me, know that I listen to lots of so-called "viking metal" (hence the Isengard song on our playlist at right). Thus, the Ericson yachts logo on our new boat is only all too fitting for me to liveaboard :)

I love it.

-Justin