Gig Harbor – Caro Babbo

8.5% for increased margin (Broken Boat Blues, Part 2)

Blake Island Marina, 17-SEP-2026 – Another $1000 all together to get the cutlass bearing fixed. I could have done it in 90 minutes.

But I would have needed a machine shop for part of it. And I definitely would have needed a lift. That’s about $800. The extra two hundred isn’t too bad to swallow when you look at it that way.

Stuck inside of Dockton with the Boat Repair Blues Again

Dockton, Quartermaster Harbor, WA – 10-SEP-2026 – We arrived on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend – last weekend – to visit my friend John Riley. To see him again and work on his boat a bit. It was good to see him. He arranged a mooring ball for us. He came over for breakfast and dinner, I rowed over to his boat and he rowed over to ours. When we cast off the mooring ball on Tuesday, it sounded like someone had attached a coffee can full of bolts under the cockpit.