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The voodoo Shelter.

February 20, 2020 jkool Blog posts, Sailing Ah Ma

We have been stuck at Shelter Bay Marina for a week now. Not that we did not plan for some time here, but it all seems to go a fair bit slower than anticipated. I’ve planned to get a fresh layer of ‘Sea horse friendly’ antifouling in Panama as this[…]

What’s in a name

August 23, 2019 jkool Blog posts, Sailing Ah Ma

I saw this post on a facebook group, asking, what is the name of your boat and why. It made me realize I never posted this draft in how Ah Ma became Ah Ma. And as we are still stranded on Curacao, waiting for engine parts I thought let’s finish[…]

Water

August 13, 2019 jkool Blog posts, Sailing Ah Ma

Our air-conditioning,an Italian made Clima, has been acting up since we took ownership of the boat. The previous owners claimed they had hardly used it, so I figured it just needed a little tlc. A local AC company had a look at it in February when we bought the boat,[…]

The little engine that could..

August 9, 2019 jkool Blog posts, Sailing Ah Ma

What an eventful couple of weeks it has been. We haven’t left the marina for a single day, as our engine doesn’t have an exhaust elbow at the moment. This is a piece of metal tubing to guide the black clouds out to the hole in the stern. Our pristine[…]

The bimini story.

July 28, 2019 jkool Blog posts, Sailing Ah Ma

The first couple of weeks back on the island of Curacao were full of chaos and to-do’s. When I arrived I took a couple of days at the hotel near the marina to give me some time to prepare the boat for living aboard. As I saw her there lying[…]