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  • Quincy’s Corner- Liking Shelter Island

    Quincy got to spend about a week picking back and forth through a boatyard on Shelter Island while the boat was getting it’s engine taken out and we were waiting on word from insurance…much to her satisfaction.  Although Quincy doesn’t always clearly speak to us, we’re pretty sure she didn’t More

  • Baja Ha-Ha 2018 Through My Camera Lense (Casting Off The Docklines)

    Gotta be honest….after meeting with our mechanics and hearing that they probably won’t make the 4-week deadline (we had originally been quoted) for fixing our sailboat engine, my motivation was lower than usual.  In reality, if the engine isn’t fixed by November 4th we’re still going down Baja whenever it More

  • Rebuilding Our Aging Sailboat Engine- Gotta Start Somewhere-

    The 120HP Ford-Lehman workhorse of an engine in our 1977 Aleutian 51 Ketch seized just off Catalina Island, Ca several weeks ago, unable to be restarted and requiring in a very long tow back to San Diego.  As a result, we were hoping to have the mechanics from VB Engineering More