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I had cluster flies in a house once for the entire winter season (Ohio). They were all over the windows, hundreds and hundreds of them. It felt like Amityville Horror. After a lot of old fashioned research (just before the time of Internet), I figured out where they came from and made it a...

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Hey, hey, hey!!!! We're still here. :) Just been busy, busy. The boat is not for sale. I usually lurk through here without signing in...until I saw this thread. Not sure what's up with our website, but I got the captain on it. I've been making new canvas to replace the worn out canvas -...

Serving breakfast this far from land usually works for me. :)

"Big, dumb flies"....I hope you don't have a case of cluster flies. I had those once in my house in Ohio. I battled them for about 2 years, including professional exterminators. It reminded me of the Amityville Horror house where they gathered all over the windows and then at night, kept...

Indeed! :D That set is adorable.

Unfortunately, I'm in the category of single ply Scott's tissue. Marine stores call their equivalent "boat toilet paper" and sell it for $6 for 4 small rolls. It's the same as the Scott's single ply - I did a comparison by putting some in a glass of water and stirring to see how quickly it...

Have you tried your local West Marine store? I don't buy paper charts anymore since everything is electronic now (except for the Explorer book with charts for the Bahamas), so I don't know whether the paper charts you get at the marine store are what you're looking for. Just a thought...

Must be something in the air...I just got a totally new galley (kitchen) too - finished it about 6 weeks ago, with the exception of a few trimmings here and there. Your kitchen looks great - it's nice to have all kitchen stuff, isn't it? My biggest accomplishment was wrestling a 28 cubic foot...

I operate my business on a yacht and in all the years she's floated (34 years now), there have never been bed frames or box springs. The mattresses lay on a built in teak frame (like cabinetry) with 3/4" marine plywood for the "decking". I have found no difference in the longevity or comfort...

That's all the convincing I need for resurrecting my waffle iron. "Eggs on Top" is a favorite around here - the combination of ingredients is endless. It's especially yummy with fresh avocado and crispy bacon.

Eeeekkk!! I remember those January days from way back when, frozen pipes and all. We're going to get some of this weather - down into the 40s on Monday night, but today, it's sunny with highs in the low 80s, so we're going to take the boat out to the sandbar for a couple of hours. This is...

Ahhh, my favorite time of year is arriving. A cold front is blowing through. It's 75° so far today. It's going to go all the way down to 70 tonight. Maybe I'll turn off the air conditioning and open the windows tonight.

I don't know how it's being enforced yet, but they are attempting to essentially "close the ocean" here. I've got a boat coming back later today and I want to find out if they were able to get through the waters of Biscayne National Park enroute to Key Largo, or whether they had to travel on...

I buy the white towels in bulk at Costco. They are very, very inexpensive, yet large, fluffy and soft. If guests ruin them, they end up as rag towels for the engine room. Once, when red wine was spilled on the flybridge, I thought nothing of throwing one of those towels down to soak up the...