due to a severe lime shortage i have re/discovered/invented the personal margarita! as a result of a logistical break down which lead in a failure to have limes delivered to my boat prior to happy hour i was left with margarita ingredients set out and only one lime. being resourceful and having already [...]

not only do i have to hold down a full time job, sail, and refit the boat but i have to devote a significant amount of my time to finding the best beer value in brisbane. fortunately my friend kirk has been helping me with this. he was instrumental in discovering the jug (Australian for pitcher) option [...]

after many attempts i seem to have finally come up with a fix to the grey water pump. this is key as it is not just the shower and now sink drain but most importantly the air conditioning drain. this particular part of the boat was particularly poorly set up as the pump pumps out of the grey water [...]

i had been wondering for some time why the vhf radio was intermittent, i would have to tweak the connector to get it to work and then it would be fine for a while. when looking at the connector i was what looked to be a bit of corrosion. i finally set out to fix it using the seth hynes patented put [...]

i must say i was even more excited to get palapa back underway and back onto clear blue water after what seems like several months in the brisbane river than i expected. we had a great trip primarily designed to get my friend kirk to help get the bottom clean and get the zincs swapped out. i got to [...]

well after over almost a year of non stop travel palapa is finally getting some much needed care and attention. thanks to our friend kirk on salsa who has been looking for work palapa is now being brought back to a shiny state. so far he has removed all the rust stains from the fiberglass with fr4 [...]