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Category: Tishie Mae

  • Mothers and Community

                                Someone once said that my Mom and I are so alike we “are like one person”. That was odd, and kinda creepy. We are our own people, but I think, given some grace, what they meant was that we are in…

  • Put a bow on that, I’ll take it!

    Mom's going home to her own gift….Marco (scroll down), her new boaty hired-hand.

  • Latest update from Mom and Bert, sailing somewhere off the coast of Italy

    Mom and Bert on Tishie Mae I, last fall Mom and Bert, in trouble with the Italian law! Bert took the tender too close to the beach, unknowingly, and was apprehended by "gorgeous Italian coast guard men in white uniforms, you should have seen them!". Escorted ashore by no less than eight of these water…

  • the sequel

    Mom and Bert on Tishie Mae I last summer, Mom one of the five lovely towns of Cinque Terre on the Italian coast last year It's official, late last week Mom found the bigger boat! Tishie Mae II (a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey) smaller than I would have suggested for living in tight quarters on water…

  • bye bye inheritance

    Mom and Bert are back from their journey through Spain—I got the call before they arrived: "Have dinner ready!" Spanish food didn't agree with them. The Palmer Johnson boat didn't work out, but on their last day in Barcelona a strong contender for the bigger-boat contest was discovered. A 40ft Island Packet, designed with the…

  • crazy is as crazy does

    Last night at Paul and Gemma's (our lovely downstairs nieghbors who have been away far too long!) engagement party: Paul, highly-qualified sailing yacht captain and frequent audience to Mom's bigger boat quest ramblings: "You know your Mom is crazy, right?" Oh, I know, I know.

  • off their rocks

    Mom and Bert are driving down through southern France and most of Spain to Gibraltar (a rock the inhabitants share with mean monkeys), determined to see the Pilgrim, a 48ft re-fitted aluminum cruiser originally built for racing by Palmer Johnson in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin back in '71. Bert swears he saw it being launched back…

  • Happy Fourth of July!

    BBQ on Tishie Mae for the holiday—we managed to find some sort of sausages that resembled bratwurst..and they tasted pretty good too…Ruby certainly approved!

  • Who’s in charge now?!

    Mom had a full day's lesson on a fourty footer (with that enviable wheel) today…I see no end in sight for bigger-boat-fever…

  • Bert’s Back!

    it's been a few days, i neglected to post the safe return of Tishie Mae until now. Mom and Bert are already busy planning the next trip…more details to come….