[Newfie]

Got a very small garden this year. Enough Rhubarb for a nice pie. Tomatoes, cabbage, beets, onions, celery.

Had. Couple of cucumbers but the frost got them, twice, once 3 or 4 days ago.

Ping-pong weather here.

Finally boat in water and a short break in sail to unsnarl all the lines I frigged up.

[theluckycountry]

Thanks for the update Newfie, and for getting the thread back on track. Veggies are tricky I have found. Unless I dedicate a lot of effort to them they go sideways. I have found a local outlet though that sells produce from the local farms and get all my needs there now.

I've been busy with my new pressure cooker making lots of pea and ham soup and know an elderly couple in a nearby retirement village that love it. It's alway good when you can give some away and it's appreciated

[AgentR11]

Found a boat I like that is actually in current production, not forty years old, with forty year old boat problems. Thanks to AI no less, it did the finding.

[Newfie]

Found a boat I like that is actually in current production, not forty years old, with forty year old boat problems. Thanks to AI no less, it did the finding.

What did you find?

[AgentR11]

Beneteau Oceanis 30.1; it fits home(Galveston bay) with shoal draft 4ft3in, CE rating B (more than I want to encounter), is new manufacture, big enough inside to comfort the critics with a good sized head, shower. Nice little fridge, propane stove (a little skimpy on the bottle size though), trusty yanmar, self-tacking jib which I find pretty cool though I've never had one at hand. A lot of freshwater and fuel storage for the Gulf. Enough to stay in blue water when I want, long enough diesel range to get to shelter if needed.

Oh and its new. Like not a project. Still a couple years out from retirement, but now I'm not dreading retirement.

[AgentR11]

nb... The AI is kinda overly positive about things, so you have to put an edge of skepticism to its tone; it'll flatter you into oblivion if you let it too. Still, the boat does fit, its not to big for me to handle, big enough to do what I'd like it to do. Despite being a bit of a cheerleader, the AI does hunt for good facts to relay in the process. Feels weird talking to a machine in conversational language, but it seems to work. So far, I can't find a hole in the boat selection "we" came up with. Still debating with myself about solar and lithium batteries, radar, and a few other things, but I have time to bring that all to conclusion well before I need to do anything *real*.

[theluckycountry]

Congratulations Agent_R, it looks beautiful, I'm not a boatie but I can certainly appreciate something like that yacht. And free wind power with backup, does that make it a hybrid lol.
A vid I found, is this what it's like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0QyT8vjEY_s

[AgentR11]

That's the boat, though to be clear, I'm not buying for some time yet. So no congratulations or condolences necessary.

[theluckycountry]

It's sweet, love the galley and head, shame he didn't show the master cabin. When I was about 12 an Uncle used to take us out on his half cabin fiberglass, a 40HP Mercury and about 15'. I loved the experience since we had a huge bay, Morton Bay, that was his playground. A total fisherman so not a lot of sightseeing but we did go all over that bay and down to the southern bar often. always wanted us to cross the bar but he just shook his head. Not in this little boat son.