Watch a short video of our visit to the town of Tigre and a boat ride into the Parana delta. As delta’s go this one is swanky with boat bus stops and floating grocery stores.
s/v Good Trade, an Antares 44, passes by our window
I was reading the blog of Good Trade (née Barefeet) which is another Antares 44. They posted a photo of Manhattan when they passed through Hells Gate in 2011. Did karma tell them to post this photo since our apartment is in the background? Small world! Next time they should drop us a line in advance and we can invite them by for a cocktail. Now that is a good trade. Here is a link to their blog.
Hurricane Sandy from our NYC apartment
Here are a few Facebook posts I made during the storm. 984 millibars, new low. Looking at the window at Roosevelt Island which has been breeched by the East River, the lighthouse at the end of the island is now mid river. “968 millibars now…. wind at 42 knots (gusts shy of 60 knots) tide out now” “Hells Gate Weather update: Breezy with occasional clouds. 45knots of sustained breeze and 962 millibars. Apartment building noticeably swaying so headed to the second floor gym for a workout. Avoiding all my […]
Black box for the boat?
All of the data about boat speed, wind angle, wind speed and more, travel from the sensors across the NMEA network to the various displays. But how do you record this data? Just write a nice sized check to Maretron and they will send you an orange box that is no more than a thumb drive. It listens to the NMEA network with all the boat telemetry data and stores this data on the internal memory. After a 1 month voyage you can then […]
The Ice Maker
WARNING! Unless you are building a boat or have a lot of time to waste, please move on to the next post. You are still here? Don’t say I didn’t warn you. If you have read any of our other posts, you already know that Two Fish is a bit luxurious. Some might even say that it is our American life on two hulls. It may surprise you that we didn’t set out to recreate all of our luxuries on the water, it just sort of happened that way. In […]
Shopping for Two Fish
My visit’s second purpose was to start purchasing household and boat items to eventually load onto the boat. We spent all summer shopping online for items such as wrenches, hammers and drive tool sets (don’t worry, I still don’t know what that is) so that we could start our selection of items. I also aggregated a few household items such as pots and pans. One day we would be a floating home and needed to be self-sufficient enough to do everything from cooking all of our meals to performing minor […]
Second Factory Visit
Building a boat is no different than building a home. There are construction workers, electricians, plumbers and project managers. Just like a house, there is a sequence for the various stages and just like a house, you can expect delays but you can’t really predict them. Our builder works on a few boats at once and these form a queue, which you can’t jump. Exciting news for us was in June when the first real progress on our boat was made – the hulls began to be formed in the […]
Field Trip comes to NYC
Since we are still in NY waiting for our boat, we are living vicariously through the current owners. In addition to reading their blogs, we look forward to their visits to NY so that we can hear more and hear their opinions regarding the ins and outs of the boating life. The appetizers were a hit and Sarah thinks they’ll be great for Sundowner parties so I have posted my first recipe (Mini-Buffalo Chicken Balls). Last week we were lucky to host Field Trip (svfieldtrip.blogspot.com). They rode the subway from […]
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