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Unfortunately it seems a rare instance when you purchase something these days that actually works. That is NOT the case with WinchSpares.com. All of Monomoy’s winches are Lewmar Wave Self Tailing. Lewmar has discontinued this line of winch, as most manufacturers tend to do with a product over time, and are now discontinuing parts. There [...]

Thanksgiving at Palm Harbor Marina. There were ~20 people for dinner without a complaint to be heard. Ben, Ken and Barry started the smoker around 4:45am and put two 16 pound Butterball birds on at 5am. The birds were placed in aluminum pans with foil over top and smoked them between 220-250 degrees until 3 [...]

Our friends Jaime and Annelle, along with their son, are in town visiting this week from Savannah, Georgia. The sky was funky Sunday, but there was no rain with wind predicted to be 5-10, so we went for a daysail. Ben and Annelle. There were several other sailboats on the bay, including Animal. Thomas tried [...]

School/work wasn’t in session for Blake/Carol on Friday due to Veteran’s Day, so we proudly flew Old Glory and set sail for the Blue Angel’s Homecoming Air Show. Ben having a Heineken. Blake was busy making clay figures in his V-berth. Tammy and Marlin followed us over. Once we rounded Navy Point, the wind settled [...]

A few things are new which we haven’t yet posted: 1) We painted all of our non-skid “Kingston Gray” with Interlux Brightside paint. A lot of taping, but it turned out really well. Here is a pic at the beginning. 2) We replaced our aging/failed refrigerator with a new Alder Barber ColdMachine cu100, which we [...]