Adventures of Salacia

The warm weather has continued here in the eastern part of the United States, which has enabled me to continue my boat work. I am really t...

This evening I finished up the nasty dirty paint removal task on the port side of the hull. During the last few months I have been pretty ...

During our refit I have given some thought to perhaps repowering our Alberg 30 with a new propulsion system. It's not that the one w...

So far the shelter has been doing its job! Our Alberg 30 is staying dry. A bit of drifting snow is finding its way onto her decks but fo...

The last few days the weather here has been great, nearly perfect! I finished all of the welding on the trailer and finally applied some p...

My eyes!!!!!! The sun is shining and the ground is starting to dry. I should be able to get back to work on the trailer here in a day or s...

Had another good progress day on the trailer. At this point I believe she could hold old Sal, upright anyway. I was originally going to ha...

No trailer progress to report, the cold has settled back in this week. Snow flurries yesterday and a few more today have halted all outsid...

Right now we are in the "planning to plan" stages of going cruising. We have our vessel, we have a vision and  we are working on...

With this new year coming in with quite a chill I thought I'd take the the time to let everyone know what 2014 has in store for us and...

      We enjoyed a great sail this past week. Here are a few shots from the day. We really like our new light weight drifter. I bought it ...