Mad Props, Yo!

So, we need a new propeller. 
The old one was not in good shape and had to come off. We need to find a replacement so we can go on big adventures.

Does anyone know of any good sources for bronze propellers?

Crowd-sourced knowledge units.

We're looking for a yard on the island and saw Barron's. Anyone know anything about them, good/bad?
One handy tool for finding out info is Active Captain. It's a crowd-sourced map of maritimey/navigational goodness. The accounts are free and the information is/can be great. Being crowd-sourced, it is only as good as the info people share. Last-last summer, we moored at the Port Washington town moorings for the weekend- and as there wasn't a lot of info for their location/regulations, I added some. Other things that are nice are people marking obstructions which may or may not appear accurately on GPS and charts. "shallow rock", "sand bar, we got stuck, lost a prop.. ", "here be dragons" etc.

Another system, similar to what Active Captain provides is Ushahidi, an opensourced mapping/crowd-sourcing solution that is malleable to whatever needs you may have; disaster relief is one example. Themable, modular, and awesome.

Land, Ho!

We've moved! We're now back at City Island, but in a.. how do you pronounce it... house?
We decided we wanted to put the boat up for a while to get to some much needed work on the boat done.
We're looking around at marinas/yards on the island that can haul us and block us for a season or two or ...

We're living on the west side of the island (same street) now and we can see the Manhattan skyline from our porch while we drink mint julipes. Ok, that's not true- we don't have a mint julipe recipe. So, if you know a good one, please pass it along to us so we can fulfill our dream of sitting on our porch, drinking mint julipes.

Once we get hauled, we can scrape, sand, patch, and paint the hull which we speculate has several hundred pounds of mollusky goodness growing on it. We'll also be able to finish the reefer, repair the dinnette table, etc. etc. etc. -all things we couldn't do while living aboard.

Now, I'll leave you with Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her, a traditional sea shanty I learned many moons ago:


Leave her, JohnnyLeave her, Johnny, leave her
And the grub was bad and the gales did blow
And it's time for us to leave her
Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her

For the voyage is done and the winds do blow
And it's time for us to leave her

You can go ashore and take your pay

The winds was bad and the gales was strong

And heave the hungry packet in
For there's many a worser we've sailed in

For the old pierhead's a-drawing nigh
Oh the times was hard and the wages low

Leave her, Johnny, leave her
I thought I heard the Old Man say

Oh her stern was foul and the voyage was long
And we'll leave her tight and we'll leave her trim

Oh, leave her, Johnny, leave her with a grin
And now it's time to say goodbye