Saturday, January 22, 2011

Weekend with Friends

This weekend definitely was one of the more fun weekends. Walter and Jeff invited us over to Imagine, their 49 ft Gulfstar Motor yacht, and we spend a great evening on Friday chatting with friends. Kevin and Linda,  who are next boat to them, and Cia, Jeff's long-time friend also joined us.



Cia making sure we have enough wine

That night we decided to go visit Cia at the place she is temporary residing. It is a farm in the suburbs, complete with it's own sledding hill. We drank, had absolutely great food and went sledding in the middle of the night
Walter and Jeff, after Walter busted his sled

Danielle and Cia with their sleds


Sunday, January 16, 2011

A Sunday at the Marina watching the Patriots


A view of the outside docks

It was a beautiful sunny day, so we took a walk on the docks to see what the extend of the snow was, and just to stretch our legs. In the wintertime, one becomes really inactive sitting on the boat all the time. I am resolved to change that, perhaps at least join the sports club that is down the road from our office.



The Patriots getting crushed




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Danielle and Annie
 

After tour walk, we went to our friends and nighbors Ed and Annie's boat. They are living a much more minimalistic lifestyle than us, but are perfectly well and happy with their camping stove, TV and propane heater. They are probably spending one-fith of what we are spending on electricity and propane. Dave was ther too, and I am looking forward for him becoming a WYC member, most likely this summer.
There we watched the Patriots getting crushed, while having good times and dinner with friends

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Summer plans

Buzz came to visit yesterday. The swimming pool was open like it is every Friday. So we hang out in the largest hot-tub in Boston, then went back to Waterdancer where Andrew, Buzz and Danielle continued till 4 am, while I happily snored away on the couch in front of the fireplace.

Danielle is into her book reading phase, and she wants to go to Nantucket. Interestingly, the picture below is actually a php script that will load a different picture every time you look at it :) enjoy !

Well, we started to make travel plans. We'll sail to Red Brook harbor, stay there for a few days, then go to Nantucket, and stay there for a week. After that we will probably continue to Cuttyhunk. I am not sure yet what exactly our summer plans are, but it is fun to start planning on a cold winter night !

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Snow Storm

The huge storm sweeping across the country has finally reached us. Both Danielle and I are off from work.
It has been blowing pretty good last night, but the marina is very protected.
Last night, we went out to Ironsides last night with Andrew and  Susan.

Hanging out on Waterdancer
Walking the dogs


We Then we hang out on Waterdancer, walked the dogs, and enjoyed the cockpit. It was cozy to enjoy a glass of champagne while the snow started coming down. The  20,000 BTU propane heater made it actually a pretty cozy to be under the shrinkwrap n the cockpit. Next year I should build more windows.
Enjoying a champagne in the cockpit
With the 20,000 BTU heater

Waterdancer's shrink wrap is holding
The ramp did not fare as well




 We spent the night rocking and rolling with the 40 knot gusts.
The snow really started coming down after midnight. It is still snowing as I post this. The shrinkwrap is holding, faring much better that the shrinkwrap over the ramp.  I actually love these snow days. One of the good things about living aboard is that you don't have to shovel any snow.
A Catalina under snow


I took a walk over to D dock to check on Jose's boat. He has a remote thermometer on his stern, so it is easy to check if the heater in his engine compartment is working. We are planning to take a walk with the dogs and then go up to Max and Dylan's to see what is up there.

 At the end we went to Mark's boat, had some sangria and chatted the night away.