Cruising Antigua and The woe's of boat maintenance!
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Boat Maintenance:

The true test of any sailor is the ability to think on the fly, improvise, and fix any problem on your boat. From installing new gadgets to troubleshooting current issues, this boat life at it’s fullest.

Our posts are intended to help other cruisers get ideas and learn from our endeavors.

Projects in Paradise

Our journey to repair our boat in beautiful places all around world continues as we install a new aux fuel tank, shop to find the right plumbing parts for the water filter, attempt to install another water bladder, fix our sails, order new sails and prepare for the passage to Panama.  Oh and did I mention…

Hydrovane Install: The Test Of “Patience” And What We Learned

Sunday December 14, 2025 Once we got Reverie back in the water, our first project to tackle was to install the Hydrovane we had gotten earlier this year and get it out of the garage.  She was taking up too much space and this was our chance to do it while docked.  We requested from…

Cabo Rico Water Tank Refit

During our first passage from Port Charlotte, FL to the Dry Tortugas, we noticed our bilge pump running continuously. We did what anyone else would do, start looking in all the bilge areas to figure out why the pump needed to continuously run and pump water out. That’s when we discovered a stream of water…