So people say to us: What’s with the blog? You haven’t posted anything in months. Did you fall overboard? Did you sell the boat? Were you finally committed? We have been busy. Sanding and painting and sikaflexing and sanding and painting. We have taken on all the inside painting. It turns out that I like…
As you know, we have been planning to move onto the Gyrfalcon sometime this summer. Recent events have modified the narrative path. Our original plan was to put our house on the market in late May, which would have meant that we were ready to move in mid-summer, about the time that the Gyr was…
As part of the Gyrfalcon purchase, we also got a 20 foot double-ended-canoe tender. It is wooden with a 10 hp yanmar diesel, a bimini, a full canvas top and a GPS unit. We think it is too large to put on the top of the Gyrfalcon, and it needs some work, and the last…
We have been telling all of our boating friends about the Gyrfalcon for the last several months. We decided to have a “Before” party – before the renovations were completed, so that folks could come and root around in the boat and give us their advice as to how to complete the project. We realize…
Our boat, fka MV Patton, was named after him. Patton was a guy who grew up in Ohio, went to Western Reserve University (now Case Western), and joined as a officer in the Field Corps of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He worked at numerous locations, including the Philippines and both continental coasts of…
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