After pulling LFB out of boat yard (finally) the crew spent about a week going through a long list of items to prepare for the first leg of the trip.  Plan was to head out [...]

Downloaded some pictures from my phone this weekend and discovered a couple of pictures I took August 7, 2009. A little background.  As mentioned in an earlier post, I first fell in love with the [...]

One of the big decisions - what should we name our new acquisition.  For years, as leader of the bird brains I'd developed and hosted a website called Large Flightless Birds, whose mission in life [...]

The new shaft and coupler is on the way from Michigan.  The bottom has been painted, the thursters all cleaned up.  Hydraulic cooler has been refitted but we are still waiting on the keel cooler [...]

We discovered a flash drive with a treasure trove of pictures that will help illustrate the story going forward.  These are some of the pictures taken during the survey process in August of 2015 N5516 [...]

The evening before the survey we learned that the davit was inoperable and as a result we would not be able to test the dingy.  We did received a promise that the seller would fix [...]