Restoration Continues

Another week in Volos, Greece, on the boat that someday soon will be christened “SailingActs.” Mike Hostetler, worn out and limping after four intense days of desperately sanding, scrubbing, sweating, fixing, cleaning, in order to get the boat in the kind of shape that Janet’s first impression would be positive, left on Monday, May 17. …

Fixing up the ‘Aldebaran’

One week of First Century working conditions (no hot showers for instance, and a 5 minute walk to the nearest toilet) here in Volos, Greece on the “Aldebaran,” the boat which is to take us on the routes of Paul. This transition from “Aldebaran” to “SailingActs” is full of surprises (finding arcane instruction manuals for …

Before Departing…

On May 6 I will be flying to Athens, then hopping a bus to Volos where the “Aldebaran” – soon to be rechristened “SailingActs” – is floating on the waterfront. For 10 days I will be working on the boat: fixing, oiling, scrubbing, replacing, cleaning out years of accumulation from the previous owner. Hopefully when …