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May10

We are Liveaboards

by Patrick on May 10, 2011 at 13:44
Posted In: Landlubber life, Living Aboard, Shutting Down Land LIfe

Dawn and I have been selling off, donating, gifting and throwing out everything at the condo which won’t go with us to the boat. For the past week we’ve had no place to sit Dawn's new Officebut the floor and after tonight we will no longer have a bed. So that pretty much makes it official, as of tonight we’re officially moving aboard Deep Playa!

Part of moving aboard means making sure Deep Playa isn’t just a boat, but a seaworthy cozy home. Dawn has been doing the lion share of these projects; converting the shelves in the v-berth to cabinets, adding a cabinet at the head of the v-berth, lining the hanging locker with cedar, and testing out her new office (see pic at left).

Over the past few years, a non-trivial amount of blood has been lost, a LOT of sweat has been wiped from our brows and even a few tears from our cheeks and it feels damn good to say this so I’ll say it again (in caps even)…

WE ARE LIVEABOARDS !

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May02

Preparing to Move Aboard–Getting Rid of the Stuff

by Patrick on May 2, 2011 at 14:41
Posted In: Landlubber life, Living Aboard, Shutting Down Land LIfe

Dawn and I held a Yard Sale this weekend to get rid of the stuff we’ve accumulated since we sold the house and moved into the condo bout 7 years (?? – Dawn knows) ago as well as stuff we’ve had forever but just doesn’t make sense to take on the boat. Prior to the big garage sale we also let our friends come over and get first dibs on things and immediately we were left with pretty much nothing to sit on! I had initially thought this was going to take a little longer, but all of a sudden I realized, we’re probably going to be liveaboards in a week or so!!

After the yard sale we took a very full car load of stuff to Goodwill and a stack of computer stuff to InterConnection being mindful to get receipt slips so we can itemize our deductions in our 2011 taxes.

107-s1We still have a pile of “valuable” designer or “cool” clothes stack of sporting good stuff, a desk and a bedroom set, that we’re taking to Buffalo Exchange, 2nd Base and listing on Craig’s List respectively.

It’s nice to get rid of this stuff, but man will I miss those boots!

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May28

Happy Birthday Admiral Dawn

by Patrick on May 28, 2010 at 05:56
Posted In: Landlubber life

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Happy 29th Birthday (again?) !

Love,
Cpt. Peaboy

 

P.s. Dawn is “The Admiral” as the lady of the boat is so frequently called in the world of sailing, but she’s not a web guru so I can post whatever pics I want of here and there’s little she can do about it but attack me in my sleep. :-)

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Mar03

We’re busy…

by Patrick on March 3, 2010 at 09:48
Posted In: Landlubber life

Sorry I’ve not posted anything in a while. We’ve been busy tending to other matters.

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More on the boat later in the week.

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Oct01

ScanMyPhotos.com Price Increase

by Patrick on October 1, 2009 at 02:08
Posted In: Landlubber life, Living Aboard, Shutting Down Land LIfe

I just got an email announcing new pricing:

While our last rate change was in 2007, in order to maintain our high level of customer service and upgraded technology infrastructure, certain adjustments will occur on October 10th.  The new rate schedule applies to prepaid fill-the-box photo scanning ($149.95) and some standard photo scanning services ($64.95 to scan up to 1,000 photos).  Always save 10% (up to $25 by entering this promo code on the order page: TWITTER.

Click here to order by October 10th at the current rates!

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Sep30

Paper

by Patrick on September 30, 2009 at 13:54
Posted In: Landlubber life, Living Aboard, Shutting Down Land LIfe

When we bought Deep Playa there was a file box of manuals and receipts which were almost fused together into a single paper brick. Paper and moist environments don’t mix so well. Since then I’ve been making progress on scanning all of those documents and where it makes sense I put them up on the web for all to have (http://drop.io/deepplaya). NOTE: Drop.io is no more.

Well one of the things we wanted to keep at hand but not take with us were all of the pre-digital photos that I have from my childhood that my mom sent me when I turned 30 as well as a bunch of things from college, about 1800 photos! I seriously though this would cost about $1000 or at least $500. Nope… only $124.95 !!

www.ScanMyPhotos.com will scan all the photos you can fit in their box (roughly a shoebox) for $124.95! You have to sort them all by size band them together and they just scan them all in size order. The send you a folded box and a shipping label in a US Postal Service envelope you unfold the box, tape it up fill it full and slap on the US Postal shipping label. They were not the highest quality scans of photos I’ve ever seen, but these were cheesy vacation photos from 1971-1981 on pretty crappy print paper anyway so it’s not like we were archiving artwork. The scans all look respectable and I’m happy that now I can take all my pics with me on the boat in digital format and send the originals back to mom for safe keeping. I highly recommend www.ScanMyPhotos.com !

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