Boat Boys Duet - Heart and Soul

Boat Yard Life

Life in a Boat Yard - by Brady

Life in a boat yard can be difficult or fun but sometimes it’s miserable!  Like when it is 90 degrees and extremely humid while you are breaking your back, sweating in the engine room.  But it all pays off when you get to go and see awesome and new places.  Now it’s not that miserable.  Now it’s perfect and sunny , but the mosquitos are the biggest problem and we put on bug spray to stop them and that seems to work.  

Lots of people wonder how we work on the boat out of the water.  Well I will tell you.  There is a huge machine called a travel-lift that lifts up boats and puts them on wooden blocks.  The boat is kept from falling over  with metal stands.  Here is a picture of some boat stands.  

 We took our boat out of the water because we need to work on a couple of jobs, like taking off the propeller because it needed to be worked on.  We also need to paint the bottom with bottom paint.  Bottom paint is a special kind of paint that keeps barnacles and other stuff from growing on the bottom of our boat.  

My Cardboard and Duct Tape Boat

My Cardboard and Duct Tape Boat 

Today I woke up and started to make a cardboard and duct tape boat.  First I made a cardboard frame of the boat, then I covered the boat completely with duct tape in the inside and the outside. Then I made a rudder completely out of duct tape.  NO CARDBOARD.  Next I found some chopsticks, and a rag and I used that for a mast and a sail. Then I taped the end of the sail to the bow.  Then I was done.  Then I took it out in the water and I put it in the water and then it floated.  I sailed the boat for about 20 minutes.  Then I went back to my boat Points Beyond.  I felt proud.

 By Jamie, age 7

Drawing Archives

MY MOM AND DAD SHARING THEIR ADVENTURES WITH ME AND MY BROTHER:
Buying a boat.  Sailing it in the San Fran Bay.  Going cruising.  Taking me and my brother to the boat.
Sharing the same adventure they had.

"Mom-Beard" - Jamie, age 6

After the BP Gulf oil spill - by Jamie

Pirate Penguin - by Jamie

Sailboat watercolor - by Jamie, age 6