The Liveaboard Life - Index of entries

Introduction

Lynn's Sailing Bio
I’ve always enjoyed being on the water – something I got from my father’s side.
I first got my feet wet, and then the rest of me, while canoeing with him. An introduction to sailing came at cottages and summer camps.

The 5-Year Plan
"Uh, Ken, we’re going to have to sleep on the boat tonight. That was our bed going down the street on that trailer to Ottawa, with most the rest of the furniture.”
So began our life as liveaboards.

The first snow
We swept light snow from the dock today...it was pretty in the bright sunshine.......and I've hung an illuminated Christmas wreath with a Santa on it on the door of our plastic shrink wrapped shelter. The coloured lights will be strung up to the mast soon.

Carbon Monoxide Scare
One frigid evening last week, several fellow boaters in our liveaboard marina here in Toronto suffered carbon monoxide poisoning during a localized power outage . Due to some tripped main breakers supplying their pier, some boat slip power pylons went dead. At the time, local outdoor temperatures were around -22 C (-4 F)

Ship's Clock
In the saloon of Silverheels III we have a lovely brass ship's clock that strikes on the 1/2 hour.

The first winter
On a mid-January morning in Toronto Harbour, I was lying half awake at an early hour...contemplating a trip to the head. The ship's clock struck eight bells, and everything became very quiet...too quiet

The boat-side skating rink
Today I bought a brand new pair of skates. I don’t really know why. I don’t enjoy skating. I’m really a skier.

Is it Spring yet?

There are only five more pumpouts until we can move to our summer home. For those of us in Toronto Harbour, that means winter is more than half way over!

First voyage of Spring

The bright sunrise had looked quite promising for such a short trip, after all, the destination WAS in plain sight; but half way across the harbour a dense advection fog enveloped the boat. Both the island and city disappeared in the mist.

Hunter the Dock Cat

On many occasions last spring and summer, one or more island raccoons walking along the deck of our boat at night would wake us.

Shiver me timbers!

It was very cold in the boat last night ... On the previous Saturday night the drains froze in the marina’s toilet, shower & laundry building.

Ken discusses DSC radios

New marine radios are coming equipped to handle Digital Selective Calling - some things you might want to know about this technology 

Dudley Do-Rite

My 7:30am alarm went off, and on came the radio with the morning news. Arising to sort out my clothes and switch on the coffeemaker, how could I know that I was soon to develop an interest in getting out of boats?

Revisiting some of our earlier assumptions…

With a little downtime at last, I took a look at our “archives” from the last couple of years of living on board

A guideline for living aboard in a northern winter

Here's a (very) concise guideline for prospective winter liveaboards in eastern Canada and northeastern United States.