Enhancing Our Sailing Experience with a Canvas Dodger
One important addition to our sailboat that has transformed our sailing and live aboard experience is our canvas dodger from Compass Canvas in Point Richmond. A dodger is a protective cover that extends over the companionway of a sailboat, offering shelter and safeguarding the cockpit area from the harsh conditions at sea. It is crafted […]
Installing a Cockpit Shower & Deck Washdown
Cockpit Shower We’ve seen a lot of cruising boats that have a shower pump that can be used in the cockpit. We really liked that concept for a few reasons. Using the shower in the head is a bit of a chore. The curtain helps keep the water off the countertop and toilet, but there’s […]
Cockpit Scupper Drains
To be honest I didn’t even know what a scupper was before we bought a boat. And fair warning, this post has quite a few “boaty” terms. Scupper – a hole in a ship’s side to carry water overboard from the deck We have scuppers along the bulwarks for draining water from the decks, but […]
Cockpit Bilge Pump
A few years ago I read somewhere about why it’s a good idea to have a manual bilge pump in the cockpit. I haven’t thought about it in a while, but it’s been on our to-do list since I read about it. It makes sense really. First, redundancy is key on a sailboat. Since we […]
A tip of the cap
How do you make a straight piece of wood bend around corners? Well, if you’ve been following us for a while, you might recall my previous experiment in steam bending. I briefly entertained this idea for the cockpit coamings, but almost immediately realized this would not work for what I needed to do outside.
Cockpit Coamings
We haven’t posted in a long time so I just wanted to do a quick update on what we’ve been doing. Remember that $500 piece of teak we bought at MacBeath’s about 18 months ago? Well, Rich finally got up the nerve to make the first cuts on that teak for the cockpit coamings a […]
Fall Projects
I know, I know…we haven’t posted in a loooong time. When I sat down to write this post I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about because I didn’t think we had worked on many projects around the boat. I recently bought an Aeropress coffee maker and was going to write about that. […]
Get a grip
Seems like it’s taken forever to get to this point but we finally got the non-skid rolled in the cockpit last weekend. I’m not sure why I’ve had such a hard time assembling my thoughts into written word lately. KiwiGrip has been done for a week and I can’t think of anything to say about […]
Getting wood
We made a trip to the Bay Area a few weeks ago and stopped along the way at a place I’ve been wanting to visit for several years. A guy I know builds laminated wood compound bows for big game hunting and told me this is the place to go if you’re looking for exotic […]
Paint day
I finished fairing out the cockpit and got a second coat of Epoxy Primekote rolled and sanded. Jeni finally intervened and said “Will ya’ leave it the F’ alone already?!”. It’s supposed to rain Monday, so Saturday was the only option for us to paint the 1-part polyurethane Pre-Kote primer and still get a couple […]