The bowsprit has been sitting quietly while we accomplished a few other tasks, like making new handrails, cutting starboard (plastic) bases for the 4 dorades,…
Author: Rob
When they removed the mast from the boat one of the wires caught on the handrail and snapped it. So add new handrails to the…
Since Edensaw sold the sapele planks in one foot increments I bought 9′ rough cut 4/4 planks for the bowsprit. The first step was dimensioning.…
We had to access the wood decking under the bowsprit, so we removed it from the boat. A few things became apparent once it was…
Botswana has been amazing. I would have been happy leaving Africa with the pictures I took in the first three days, and it just kept…
A little more on why we don’t sail offshore to Alaska. We have a lot of ocean miles on ourselves and the boat and are…
In the last chapter of this saga, we received a response from the CEO of the company that manages the ships for Eitzen Chemical. We…
And finally, our response to the owners with a link to photos that seem to be at odds with the tanker’s captain. I’m sure we’ve…
Here is the response we received from the owners of Siteam Leader. Unfortunately for them, we have photos that seem to contradict their report. Rob…
A week after arriving in Seattle we received an email from the owners of the psycho tanker, Siteam Leader. Quite a pleasant surprise, I never…