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Monthly Archives: March 2010
GET OOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!
Adrian, the cheery 6’ 2” Canadian, was low on cash but full of spirit. He had been borrowing my bike for the prior week to ride to town for parts and pieces to fix up his newly acquired steel sloop. He dropped by just as Mike’s overtime charges were about to begin accumulating, so I [...]
Posted in Captain Liz Clark and the Voyage of Swell, Uncategorized Tagged boatyard, Tahiti 7 Comments
20-ton Hydraulic Jack + Tsunami + Hollywood Director + 6’2” Canadian + Butane Torch= GREAT SUCCESS!
I woke in the middle of the night to a pounding on Swell’s hull. I shook myself from a dream and looked up at the clock. It was 3 am. “Who the heck drops by for a visit at this hour?” I thought. I peered over the side and saw Taputu standing below with a [...]
Posted in Captain Liz Clark and the Voyage of Swell Tagged boatyard, mike lipscombe, Tahiti 1 Comment
No More Chirps in Boatyard Purgatory
For a week after Poe died, it felt strange when I’d return to Swell–no more chirping, no more fishy stink, and no more fuzzy head popping up? Instead I found only piles of progress-less projects staring at me. Despite grinding off the recent epoxy job and making a more precisely-fitting steel washer, the ‘extracteur’ continued [...]
Unfit to be a Mother ☹
By and by, Poe didn’t get better. She ate less and less through the weekend and I felt both helpless and hopeless to make her well again. After asking around, I found out about a veterinarian in town, loaded my sick bird into in my bike basket, and pedaled off… Upon finding the veterinarian clinic, [...]
Fred, Fin, and Doug…