Repairing a Self-Tailing Winch
We live about 60 miles east of the SF Bay Area. One day Rich went to a marine consignment shop in Alameda to consign some old boat stuff he had in his shop. While he was there he found a Barient self-tailing winch. While that shouldn’t seem surprising, it was. We rarely see self-tailing winches […]
Tank Tender, Dorade Guards and Mast Pulpits
Tank Tender One of the previous owners installed a Tank Tender for checking the level of the diesel tank and the single water tank that was original to this boat. The Tank Tender uses air pressure through a little tube that goes into the tank. The excess air pressure bleeds off until the air pressure […]
Bedding Stanchions
Have you ever worked really hard on a project and then when it was done you just couldn’t get off your lazy butt to do much of anything? Well, that’s where we’ve been for the past couple of weeks, on our lazy butts.
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. […]
Oh yeah, about that bowsprit…(bowsprit part 2)
Remember back in March when I was telling you about how we glued up a new bowsprit? I mentioned the sprit again in June when we received all our bronze rigging hardware. Unfortunately, I never really wrote about how it went from a 9 foot long 6X6 hunk of timber to an expertly crafted and beautifully […]
Miscellaneous Projects
I’ve been working on a few miscellaneous projects lately.
Anchor management
When we bought her, Ramble On came equipped with a Simpson Lawrence 555 Sea Tiger manual windlass for cranking in anchor and chain. Our refit budget includes a line item to change it out for an electric windlass, but after weighing the pros and cons of manual vs. electric, we figured why shell out the $5000+ […]
Back it up
Time to get the cleats reinstalled on the boat. Earlier this year when we tore up the teak decking I had to make up some new wood blocks to replace the old ones that go between the cleats and the fiberglass. Those blocks were epoxied to the deck, and I finally got them primed and […]
Hey buddy, need a lift?
We’ve ordered a few things from Garhauer Marine in the past and I’ve always been impressed at how they can offer high quality, heavy duty sailboat hardware at an unbelievably low price. And, they back it all up with a 10 year unconditional guarantee.
Dorade boxes
As with pretty much every piece of exterior teak on our boat, the dorade boxes are in pretty rough shape. Earlier this summer we started playing around with removing & polishing the bronze cowls and scraping the old Cetol off the boxes. But then we got sidetracked with other little projects like tearing off all […]