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Smell 'Rotten Eggs' on the boat? Get out!
Smell "rotten eggs" or a "sulfur smell" on your boat or in your engine room? GET OUT. You may have a bad battery that is emitting dangerous hydrogren sulfide gas.
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- September 26, 2023 3:01 am
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Is the old adage "Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in morning, sailor's warning" true, or is it just an old wives' tale?
Within limits, there is truth in this saying. A small coastal freighter plying its way through a placid sea at sunset. Photo by Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps (ret). NOAA Photo Library. Have you ...
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Living on a boat is a dream for many people. Here are some things to consider before making your decision.
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Boating Basics: Channel 16 - Mayday, Sécurité And Pan-Pan - On The Water
Learn what Channel 16 is for, what Mayday, Sécurité and Pan-Pan calls mean, and most importantly, how to make an effective call should an emergency occur.
High gas prices hurt fishing, boating industries
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the price of diesel has nearly doubled over the past two years, from averaging $2.40 per gallon in 2020, to more than $4.00 dollars per gallon
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Project Windows 2 Hang Em High
Two experts so far are still scratching their heads and don't want to take on my job. So it's time to get inventive. I have to think outside of the box frame window treatment selections and methods of...
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Project Windows 1 Info Gathering
Collecting bookmarks for info and ideas. Pt 1
Project Window treatments salon, windshield, master cabin, port hole covers.
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Project Window treatments salon, windshield, master cabin, port hole covers.
WAVE FOLD HOW TO PDF https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0882/5096/files/Wave_...
Wanda Hope Carter
I have several areas needing window coverings and with odd shapes, some slanted over head on the windshields, some behind a valance with a column in the middle and having to match my interiors already in place, I am having a heck of a time figuring out what works and what to do. I had all of these t...
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Big Balls needed to get through this hurricane. I had to buy two new fenders - thank Goodness they arrived today. We moved to the original dock we were on, which is more protected and sturdier with ta...
What an exciting day so far. We left the dock to make it to a mooring buoy near where the fireworks are set off to arrive in the middle of 2 thunder storms converging overhead. Oh, the wind and waves ...
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The lengths I go to in order to avoid facial recognition technology. (HA JK -- remodeling the Motor Yacht - requires lots and lots of sanding)
Safari Woman
thanks I had to! Firs time I sanded just a little by hand I was coughing wildly for days. Now I'm power sanding too - gotta have it.
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I'm wearing some of the wonderful gifts my son sent me from Hawaii for my birthday. If anyone has been following the past week on FB - between one of his friends, me and him... it's been a bumpy ride. But this is what I am talking about when I say family love. We've been through hell and back about ...
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This is a design set I came up with for the dinette booth area. Top and bottom of booth seats, a valance goes on the side of the dinette and a port hole cover. WHATDAYATHINK? LOL I probably can't affo...
Wanda Hope Carter
OKAY - maybe not exactly this lol It looks cute on the computer but the dragonfly is probably not really the look I want - I like these colors though
Wanda Hope Carter
The brown is just the background color I put on there so it would show the white piping on the edges lol Right now I've gone from this to thinking I will just pick the tan-ish beige crinkled color and be done with it - with white piping lol I have the samples until Wed - so anything could happen. Th...
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Me picking out seat covering for the dinette. Currently it's PINK! UGH!!! I must be the most picky picker in the world. I can't make a decision until I think it's perfect. And nothing is perfect. The ...
Wanda Hope Carter
Me picking out seat covering for the dinette. Currently it's PINK! UGH!!! I must be the most picky picker in the world. I can't make a decision until I think it's perfect. And nothing is perfect. The new wall paper I have behind the samples with the palm leaves in it, is very difficult to match colo...
- August 5, 2018
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4th of July trip off the dock *It was sort of fun while it briefly lasted
At first the plans were to leave the dock on July 3rd to stay overnight off of a favorite island, and then make the way back up to town where the fireworks take place for the 4th. The weather and mino...
Wanda Hope Carter
this might need edits - I was lucky just to get it written out ... so no promises there lol
Linda Mihalic
O.M.G. Your 4th was very special. I hacked and coughed, sneezed and choked my way through the day.
Wanda Hope Carter
Thanks for reminding me --- how special it was, I will definitely never forget it lol I am sorry you are sick! Praying you get well soon!
Wanda Hope Carter
Update - the ac is fixed, new hot water heater installed and hopefully the diver coming out to scrape the bottom will find it is just a small piece of something tangled around the prop this week.
Johnny Rudick
The barge from which the fireworks were launched were set up right out our back door. So we sat on the porch with friends we invited over and watched fireworks the evening of Independence Day. No Incidents. 
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My entire body aches - but I've mastered being a contortionist! 3 days - 3 whole days - to wall paper a small hallway with 3 full doors and a half door cut out in it! Angles and ceiling height changes...
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When Insistent Meets Resistant Be Persistent!
After a week of wall papering, and the mess it made, I scheduled a thorough boat cleaning today to get back to ground zero before starting the next round.
I woke up dreading the work ahead of me and ...
I woke up dreading the work ahead of me and ...
Rocky
lol...after spending one hour on the phone with my grandson who has become the proud owner of speedboat he picked up in FL, I am amazed at the amount of TLC a 'boat' needs!! May as well get a husband or wife than to spend 4 hrs on the Bay and do 5 hrs cleaning, repair and maintenance of the 'lady' ...
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I HAVE A BRAND NEW POINT OF VIEW
POINT OF VIEW - wow -
Soooo because a dinghy was purchased the boat got turned around and now the prevailing view from the aft deck is the rest of the marina, the waterway that goes by and an expanse ...
Soooo because a dinghy was purchased the boat got turned around and now the prevailing view from the aft deck is the rest of the marina, the waterway that goes by and an expanse ...
Wanda Hope Carter
Can't off the boat in the marina - against the rules - but someday I will bust out the fishing pole and try my hand at it. (I hate fishing though - it upsets me to hurt and kill fish even if I throw them back. Poor bebes!)
CuzMike
Hmmmm.... I don't enjoy hurting or killing anything but if you were to taste some of the deep fried catfish I've been eating lately you might lose some of that aversion.
Wanda Hope Carter
lol I hear ya - I love fresh fish! After owning reef tanks though - and realizing fish are not the dumb swimmers people think they are, but even have personalities, I have to "deal with it" anytime fishing or hunting come up as something I might do. Believe me I could if my life depended on it thoug...
Laurel Victory
Wanda--I loved your post and its message. Re posted it(giving credit to TeamNetworks and Wanda Hope Carter) on Nana. THEY loved it -- 60+ hits!!! 
Ears willing to hear you...keep'em coming.
Ears willing to hear you...keep'em coming.
Wanda Hope Carter
Oh wow THANK YOU so much!!!!! I'll try - but sometimes the lessons don't come so quickly as this one did. lol. .. what I am about to post going on today - hopefully someday will provide a perspective worth sharing, rather than the groans I am making right now.
- June 1, 2018
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Johnny Rudick
I will fish, hunt or what ever for food. Will NOT do it for "sport" AKA "fun".
I see no "fun" in harassing fish for my own amusement. :-/
I see no "fun" in harassing fish for my own amusement. :-/
Wanda Hope Carter
Yep that's me too - but then I often catch too many things I can't eat - and have to torture it off the hook before I ever catch anything I can. This is why I mostly just go to the fresh fish market. lol
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