s/v Monomoy's blog

Wow! That pretty well sums up sailing on January 29th. We had to wait until around noon before we had enough water to get out of the slip, but it was worth it once we got out there. If you scroll to the bottom of this post, you will find a video of Dolphins swimming [...]

Often while at anchorage other boaters will dinghy over to us and inquire as to the origin of Monomoy’s name. When our Ship’s Boatswain, Blake, was 4 years old, he had a favorite book for us to read to him called “Ghost Ship”, which was just released that year. This book was bestselling storyteller Mary [...]

Wow! It was like an Elvis moment! We finally had enough water to scrape out of the slip at 1:30pm CST on Saturday the 15th for the first sail of 2011. Pogo was in awe. Heading to Pensacola Bay! Ben’s dad Steve is in town, so we had the chance to get him out on [...]

The s/v Peacemaker is visiting Pensacola, FL, so we took the opportunity to take a tour and learn a little bit about the ship. The Peacemaker, originally named Avany, was built on a riverbank in southern Brazil using traditional methods and tropical hardwoods, and was launched in 1989. The original owner and his family motored [...]

It’s that time of the year again to take care of routine maintenance on Monomoy. We started with a new filter and fresh fluids in her engine and transmission. We had been using a 12v oil pump, which sucked the oil out of the crankcase or transmission and transferred it into a holding container. The [...]