Pictures

Well, I finally got around to posting some pictures!!



There are a lot of cormorants that hang around the marina. I got incredibly close to this one, and he didn't even move when I ran back inside to grab my camera.


There are always huge ships that dock near the marina. These were two battleships that stayed for a few days, and then were gone when we woke up bright and early.
The Jellyfish are everywhere...this isn't a very good picture of them at all, because usually it looks like there are more jellyfish than water.

Our boat!





Climbing out of the hatch...
Tada! I did it!

The living room. This is the built in couch, with the kitty sleeping on it.


The futon is on the other side of the room.

Our new spice racks that we are so proud of...

And the kitchen....also known as the galley.



This is one of the hatches that leads upstairs, but not the one I was climbing out of.
The bedroom.

THIS is the hatch I was climbing out of.

We took the boat out last night. Here's Justin driving.


Sunset, while we were out with the boat.

Lightning

Two nights ago, we had our first lightning storm while on the boat. It was really fun, although I was dead tired from work and so not long after it started, I fell asleep and missed all the fun.

I swear we will one day post pictures, but not today. I am on a laptop at work (not my own) and until I am able to get my computer on a good wireless connection, I won't be able to get any pictures on here.

Justin has his last exam today in 4 1/2 hours, so after that, he will have more time to work on the boat. I know he's been really wanting to work on it but devoted his time to school instead...now he'll have a couple of months off (of school at least, but not work) so that'll be really cool.

I've been trying to fix up what I can on it, which is surprisingly a large amount. I have been painting and staining things, patching up old nail holes, vacuuming (over and over and over) and just cleaning and fixing whatever I can. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find little projects to do, but I certainly haven't a lack of them.

Time to get back to work.

-Jenny

Weee!

Plenty of exciting stuff has happened.

1. The electric blew out and we had to figure out (with much help from Carl) how to get that back up.

2. We went sailing on our friend Mike's boat "apollo". That was tons of fun.

3. We finally took the fitz out to sea!

4. Aft bilge pump broke down and began flooding the engine compartment. Holy scary. Fixed now.

We have plenty of pictures, but they are all still on Jenny's camera.

Hopefully we can get them up soon.

more later.
-Justin

week 1

Well, my parents came to visit about 3 days after we were moved on. We really hadn't even settled in and were/are still trying to figure out just how exactly this whole thing works. So it has been HECTIC as of the first week, but my parents went back home yesterday (mind you, it was great to see them again since it has been so long-- it has just been hectic for moving aboard). Anyhow it seems like it is going to be an awesome life. We are enjoying the heck out of it so far.

We also didn't realize that when we were moving to the town of Charlestown (a neighborhood of Boston-still within the city) we were moving to such an awesome place. While my parents were here we didn't get to spend a ton of time on the boat but we did get to do a lot of exploring. Charlestown looks like such a sweet place. It is all upscale but laid back and just nice. Gaslamp streets and all. Sure beats my old neighborhood in Lansing MI!

We took a ton of pics when my parents were here but they are all on my parents camera, so whenever they get those mailed to us we'll put some online.

more later, I'm sure!

-Justin

the move

Jenny here. The move went great. We had beautiful weather and EVERYTHING FIT! It was grand.

Now we are just trying to quickly get things finished up before Justin's parents arrive tomorrow. This means a lot of running around for Justin today, and a lot of cleaning for both of us tonight.

We tried the 3 day trial of the internet at the marina and it was too awful to spend the $ to sign up. Instead, we have decided to go without internet for the summer and see how that works out for us. We live close enough to the north end which has a great coffee house that we both really enjoy, and they have free wi-fi. I don't imagine we will be updating too often (I am doing this from work), but I am hoping we can update at least once a week.

Anyway, my 15 minute break is up and it's time to get back to work.

More soon.

-Jenny

countdown continues....

33 hours til we move aboard.... I know that's a little absurd, but we are seriously excited.

Nor' Easters and more.

Some actual exciting news: We will definitely be moving aboard on Saturday! ....in the immortal words of my sister, "Woot Woot!!"

Also, we had the advantage of using somebody's free car for the week, so we went to Ikea to get some decoration stuff. We got plenty of cool things to make the boat look more sweet and more like home, but you can see all that stuff when it is installed and looking cool.

As one last exciting thing, we are still in the waning stages of what is apparently a very big Nor'Easter storm out here. Susan, the woman living on our boat now, said that Sunday night was by far the worst -storm wise- night on a boat she has ever experienced.

We can't find any pictures of what the night was like at our marina, but these are some nearby areas.

This is in New Hampshire, the farthest away
of the pictures, but such a cool picture that I
couldn't leave it out.

This is Revere Beach. How these people aren't
getting bowled over by these waves, I dunno.
This is just up the road about a 1/2 mile from
where we live now. We went there the night
before to see this site and it was pretty cool,
not as big as in this picture.

This lighthouse is in Cohasset. South of us by
just a little bit, but right outside the harbor.

Other than the huge waves, there was plenty of rain and wind, but it really didn't seem like a HUGE storm to us. We'd probably think differently if we were out on the water.

:) That's all for now.

-Justin