Naval Gazing

August on the boat: Will Too Many Visitors Make it NOT FUN?? One of our primary objectives regarding the boat experiment was to test...

Our last visitor for the month of August was our friend Shari, who ditched her family and drove north to check out the Perseverance. We...

(Caution, this gets a bit technical and contains numbers and graphs) I won’t name names, but I have heard from more than one of the four...

If you haven't already, you should read Jim's "Omens" post for background. I should have seen the signs. One my first dates with Jim was...

There’s always someone with a bigger boat. (You just hope you don’t meet them on a blind corner.) Here’s a sample of some of the cool and...

Jim's odometer rolls over

So,… we officially bought the boat on June 4, it is now July 12. Between those dates, we’ve spent a couple weeks in Dexter tending to our...

We had a nice July 4 weekend on the boat with Davi and Ümlaut (Davi’s large black cat). My colleague from work let slip that he and his...

Disclaimer: The author is in physical, but mostly emotional distress at the time of this writing and as such some liberties may have been...

Me and fluids have history. My first discrete fluids related memory has got to be my dad teaching me about the wonders of siphons. I...

We joined Davi and Umlaut on the Perseverance on Friday night. Saturday dawned calm and partly sunny meaning there were a few walkers at...

I’m not really the superstitious type, but when I lived with my (usually pragmatic) grandmother for 2 years, she unapologetically read me...

Jim and Lori finally master something regarding the boat

We (Jim & Lori) rolled into the Escanaba Municipal Marina on Monday evening at 5:00 sharp, just about 24 hours later than planned. We had...

This is the last time the Ness Family will make this trip with the Perseverance. Here is a nice intervalometer series from Davi of the...