A blog by nerds afloat
After clicking on a post and reading it, hit the “Back” button on your browser to return to this page so that you can read only the highlighted posts. Otherwise, if you click the “Next Post” button on the post page, you will be stuck reading the whole blog! WordPress really sucks sometimes! (Okay, fine. Mel sucks at WordPress. This is hard, people!) There are still a lot of posts– about 135. Hop to it!
And so our departure will be Friday afternoon instead. We were stalled by a “grounding problem” provoked by misinformation from Greg’s contact at Victron Energy. That is the extent of Mel’s knowledge of the problem. But as Noble Captain Richard … Read More
We decided to challenge ourselves to begin with. We are still off the Florida coast for the next few hours. ETA Thursday in Jamaica!!! I am glad we have NCR.
It occurred to Mel last night that the origin of “swearing like a sailor” may be different from what she previously imagined. She used to think it came from what happens when a bunch of men are stuck together with … Read More