Rum Rations

16/08/2024

Happy National Rum Day!

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24/06/2024

17/08/2023

Happy National Rum Day!

22/03/2023

In the marina at the water’s edge.

22/03/2023

Other fish in the marina today. Anyone know what kind of fish?

21/03/2023

What’s in the marina water today? Why it’s a juvenile barracuda.

21/03/2023

New stack pack sail cover installed. Yes, that’s Starlink on the rail providing over 200 mb down.

21/03/2023

New life for the old Yamaha 9.9. a clean carburetor and replaced broken gasket has her single pull starting.

20/03/2023

Fresh mahi-mahi! I cut these 2 nice pieces from a section of the fish. Belizean all seasoning, salt, minced garlic and butter. Yum! Tonight’s version of cooking on a boat.

18/03/2023

Atlantic Ocean on a very calm day.

18/03/2023

Guess the sailing will be good tomorrow.

16/03/2023

Much better, guess I’ll take the one that was damaged in the hurricane to the boy scouts for destruction.

14/03/2023

Lunch time all around.

14/03/2023

New batteries installed! 1/2 the old unloaded from the boat. What a pain in the ! Small battery box, small engine room. Heavy deep cycle batteries! Hot & humid with all the power off. Bruh!

13/03/2023

Tonight‘s version of cooking on a boat, one pot meal.  I had already diced up the green pepper and the onion before I thought of taking a picture. However, these are all of the ingredients. The meat is spicy Italian sausage. The cans which might be hard to see are diced unsalted tomatoes. It turned out quite tasty. Probably hard to go wrong with these ingredients.

11/03/2023

I believe it may be time to put the 9.9 HP down. I guess, the question is, do I use the 9 mm or the 45? It truly is my nemesis.

11/03/2023

There she is! I got the dinghy inflated, seat, cushions installed, paddles, installed, anchor installed, swim ladder installed and went for a paddle around the marina. Still need to get the outboard engine running again this season. I tested the main ship inverter this morning on the old batteries, and it works great. It easily powers, the Starlink router, TV, lights, fans, refrigerator, etc. basically everything on the boat. I have six new batteries that I still need to install. The starting battery seemed like it was reading low so I took it in and had it tested and everything came back fine fully charged.  I have 6, 6 V batteries set up in series parallel. I wasn’t sure exactly how that worked so I went down a rabbit hole last night watching videos, and reading to ensure that it was set up correctly to begin with. All looks good. Basically I’m just doing a replace. However, you still have to disconnect and reconnect all of the batteries in a certain order. So, the research was well worth it.

19/02/2023

Manatee on starboard! Just to clarify, this is in the marina, my boat is tied up and the engine is off. The manatee is completely safe. I wouldn't motor this closely to a manatee.

09/12/2022

Sailing 360

05/12/2022

04/12/2022

04/12/2022

Cooking on a boat 🙂

09/07/2022

SV Rum Rations Sailing from Florida to the Bahamas in March 2022 or so we thought. ...

02/07/2022

Sailing 2022 January Ft Lauderdale to Ft Pierce

30/06/2022

SV Rum Rations 43' 1975 Gulfstar Sailboat TourS/V Rum Rations is a custom center cockpit pilothouse:• Spent 95% of her life in Fresh Water• Pilothouse - Cust...

26/04/2022

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16/04/2022

Not a terrible day, but I felt for the guy in this boat. It may not look like much but that is a pretty decent sized sailboat getting tossed around. I had a couple really rough trips through the inlet last month.

04/04/2022

He let me get really close then gave me a look.