cockpit shower

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 […]

Fall Projects

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. […]

Old Sea Hood

Hood winked

Back in early June I removed the dilapidated old sea hood in order to fix and finish the companionway hatch.  Since I’m having so much fun working with fiberglass and resins lately, I figured now would be a great time to build a new hatch turtle.  Ugh….

Core Values

Last summer we peeled up all the teak decking and filled about a thousand screw holes in the fiberglass skin with epoxy.  We knew we had some serious moisture issues in the core material and would eventually need to address the problem. “Eventually” finally came last week.

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 […]

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 […]

First coat of primer

Yesterday I got the first coat of epoxy primer laid down inside the cockpit.  I’ve never worked with this kind of “paint” before, but once everything was wiped down & cleaned it went pretty smoothly (no pun intended).

Sanding the cockpit

I finally got everything faired smooth (I think) inside of the new coaming extensions on Friday.  I figure at this point just shoot for pretty smooth.  This weekend Jeni and I fired up the sanders and vacuums and went to town doing what we love to do…