Boating season begins but…
Boating season begins but… we are now boatless. Our 2006 Sea Ray 340 Sundancer sold yesterday. The name has been removed and the new owner is taking it down to its new home in Deltaville, VA as I type this. But with endings come beginnings and we have several new
Starkeeper is up for sale
Its official. Starkeeper is up for sale. If you are interested in a great fresh water 2006 Sea Ray 340 Sundancer this is the boat for you. You can check out the link here for the listing.
More Than Overnight on a Boat
Where has the time gone? I’m writing about events in June and its friggin August. Time to catch up. For the month of June we decided to spend more time on the 340. With the goal of becoming long term cruisers after retirement we decided to see how living aboard
First trip out with Friends
Apologies for the late posting. Where does the time go? For Mothers Day we were joined by our friends Steve and Marina for our first real trip out in the boat. We anchored out at Mattawoman. While the water was still too cold to go swimming at 67 degrees we
Winter Project: The Shroud of StarKeeper
While boating is certainly a fun thing to do there are several (okay many) things that can be a real pain in the transom to do on a boat. One of them is taking down the isinglass before each departure. If you leave it up it gets incredibly hot in
New Photo Gallery: 2016 Raft-Up with Murphy’s Law
We rafted up with the new Murphy’s Law in Mattawoman.
New Photo Gallery: 2016 PWYC Pirates Night on the Hook
Every year Prince William Marina and Prince William Yacht Club put on their annual Pirates Night on the Hook event. The PWM barge is placed in Mattawoman and boats are rafted up. It allows for a great party platform and Prince William Marina brings out the grill and fixes up
New Photo Gallery: 2016 Dinner at Belmont Bay
A couple of pictures we took while doing dinner on the hook in Belmont Bay.
New Photo Gallery: 2016 PWYC Three Sisters Raft Up
Every year around August Prince William Yacht Club organizes a raft up at Three Sisters, an anchorage on the Potomac River north of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Washington, DC. Here are our pictures from the 2016 event.
New Gallery: 2016 Day Trip to Three Sisters with Friends
We are slowly getting our photos up on here and developing our workflow. Here’s our photos from a day trip to Three Sisters with friends.
New Photo Gallery: 2016 Boat Maintenance
Anyone who has ever owned a boat knows that boat maintenance is a way of life. For this maintenance day we did an inspection of the genset impeller and swapped the hinge position of the cockpit fridge.
2016 Memorial Day Run to Smith Island
We were feeling a little adventurous and fuel prices were down so we decided to run down to the bay and visit Smith Island. The trip was amazing. The destination not so much. After departing friday afternoon we spent the night in Nomini Creek. We originally set anchor in Nomini
Cool Fuel Issues on 2006 340 Sundancer
So Star Keeper has started developing an embolism. The symptoms started out as some stumbling and significantly mismatched wide open throttle RPMs. After doing some research and checking plugs, we found some articles on clubsearay.com outlining an issue with the Cool Fuel modules that were on our 8.1 Engines. It appears