"Splash Day" is on target for early next week. Our Dash will go in the water Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll have the engine survey and sea trial, and then we'll be staying on board for the first few days while a captain helps us learn how to keep the thing upright. If the weather is … Continue reading Boating Paraphernalia

Daughter #2 bought a "boat dress" yesterday. I tried to explain it's not a cruise ship, but she didn't listen. I hope she wears shorts under it.

April has never been so agonizing. We have so much we want to do on the boat but the boat is 300+ miles away and we're at least a month away from escaping the back corner of the storage shed. We'd like to order our odd-shaped mattresses, make curtains, stock the galley, clean the outside, … Continue reading Summer Cannot Get Here Fast Enough

Our survey said we didn't have a bell. Guess what we found under the couch in the salon? Two dingalings.

Last week was spring break for our high schoolers, so Owen, The Boy, and I headed to Michigan to work on the boat Wednesday-Friday. We got off to a rocky start because someone had to go to court to fight a speeding ticket Wednesday morning. We could make fun of that certain someone about getting … Continue reading We Cleaned Out a Boat

Our Dash is a 1989 Hatteras 40' Double Cabin. We named her "Our Dash" as a reminder to make the most of the space between the years, or the "dash," that will someday appear on our grave stones. (See "The Dash Between" by Ron Tranmer.)We made the offer on a bitterly cold day in January, … Continue reading We Bought a Boat!