CUE THE DRUMROLL...After weeks and weeks of "Waiting for Godot," or somesuch, hoping for summer to perhaps mount a sneak attack, our Frankenwerke Board of Directors concluded this morning, that I was

Absuhtootly NUTHIN else is working...so I Guess I may as well prepare for August. As soon as it gets above freezing, and the wind drops below a howl, we gonna pull Mojo the tuglet out an do a float te

“Houston! We’ve got a problem…” Even though Jamie offered to help me with the driving, he really can’t reach the pedals. A couple days ago, I declared an “inflight emergency” and got a hurry-up appoin

Well, that sounds, er, complicateder, 'n complicateder...What i installed is made by Comar Systems and is called an AIS-Multi. The USB port is a square one, with four pins showing. I went from that, w

And, from the dark side of, yet a different, moon…Somewhat contrary to John’s guidance, I bought a used AIS receiver/antenna splitter on eBay, and it came from Denmark, I believe it was. Turns out, th

Sheesh...after only a couple days in the water, my dozen cuft of aft sponsons on Walkabout, continued to drip water OUT for the whole 12 hour trip home...Back into surgery, and stalled for a time. Hop

I pulled a little paperback from the back of an overloaded and dusty bookshelf the other day. It did seem familiar, but I co0uldn't begin to recall the story line. I do suspect most Oregonians read on

HOW ARE THINGS IN THE BANANA BELT, these days? Fifteen-above and snow here, as we load out for a gathering on the Snake this weekend…dan

Super, Dan! We’ll see you there…dan

We seem to have moved on, and are already talking about May in Fern Ridge...What happened to April in Toledo? Nobody comin'? dan

Jamie the Seadog and I are lining up for our next booster, and just about have Walkabout ready for a road trip...We've gotten about 25 hours on Suzi the Younger in-water since Valentine's Day. The sno

JAMIE THE SEADOG AND I ARE LINING UP FOR OUR SECOND COVID BOOSTER-SHOTS, and making preparations to get underway for the tropical Oregon coast! Yeah, we've still got snow piled up around the Frankenwe

I took the day off from painting, and went to the old swimmin’ hole…

Realizing that I “represent” a micro-minority; the general spread-out of all the events on the cruising calendar makes it increasingly difficult for me. Would that several could run more or less back-

The utterly prosaic, gilded with a view to an ephemeral rhapsody; equally available, and near-universally ignored, eh?

Sooooo, some-assembly-required, huh? If my putative splitter/receiver works; will my 18” ss whip still need a ground plane of some sort? John and I were speculating on improved vhf performance with a

A quite-lovely boat! And, that light bar is precious…dan

“Some of this report is true.” Thanks for going. Thanks for reporting. Dan

Did I ever tell ya’ about the time…John took me water skiing behind Lazy Jack? Seems. Yeah. He had me strap on these two old taxidermized lunkers to my feet, and told me to sit on the dock, and wait f