Neverland Trawler

 Hello friends and family!  We got an early start this morning, grabbing some fuel for our new reserve starboard fuel tank and leaving the marina at 7:15 am.  Nervous is the best way to describe the morning as we headed West down Long Island Sound. Slowly, the hours passed and […]

 We’ve been stranded for days at sea, surviving on raw fish we speared with a stick whittled from a piece of deck railing…Jackson may have salmonella…losing his will to live minute by minute… Just kidding..we needed some comedy relief! We left the marina this morning at 10:45 after the mechanic […]

 Good evening family and friends! We launched this morning around 9:30.  The guys with the lift are really interesting to watch as they haul the boat to the lift site. All systems go!  Neverland started right up and we did a quick check on the transmission before heading out to […]

 Good morning, family and friends.  A long couple of days behind us.  We arrived in Connecticut  on Sunday afternoon and spent most of it continuing to finish up with the mechanical work. On Monday, the goal was to pull the flywheel to check behind it.  We needed to make sure […]

 Spent the weekend changing out the broken damper plate.  What a job!  Things went fairly well, although I ended up spending a LOT of time on a stuck bellhousing bolt, and then needed to construct a small crane to help lift the transmission out of the way.  I ran out […]

Well, bad news. The boat cannot be fixed immediately. We will need to track down the part and see when it can be lined up for installation. So the boat is going to be here in Connecticut for a time. It’s sad, but we are really thankful that Neverland will […]

Ready to head out at 6:00 am this morning. When we placed the boat in gear, we heard a disturbing sound coming from the engine room. Based on what it sounded like, I think we’ve lost the flex plate that sits like a clutch between the engine and transmission. A […]

Hi friends and family! Got an early start today and it paid off! Woke at 4:45 am and pulled up anchor at 5:25 am. We hit the Atlantic when she was in a very good mood, nice and calm..and even glassy when we got to Fishers Island. We put in […]

Hi friends and family! Totally exhausted so this will be quick. We really wanted to get an early start, but mother nature had different plans. FOG. We woke up to a real pea-souper. We didn’t even fire the engine up until 9:30, and even then we had to proceed very […]

A quick little 30 minute run down the Providence River before rafting Neverland up with Neil’s boat Brasil.