Sailboat Boom

Cutting the Boom

Weather helm is the tendency of a boat to turn itself into the wind (weather). Too much weather helm and she’s not only hard to steer but slower than if balanced.  How do you counteract the tendency for the boat to turn into the wind? You turn the rudder.  So, the more weather helm the […]

Electrical

Electrical Project Part IV

DC Electrical Update We finally finished the electrical project!  Of course it seems nothing is ever completely done.  We’ll have to revisit the electrical when we get new batteries and when we take down the mast to rewire it.  But for now, we are checking this one off the list.  The best part is we […]

Intergrip

Intergrip(ping) the Cabin Top

Hatches and cabin top projects – Week 3 No, we didn’t finish painting the cabin top with Interlux Intergrip last weekend.  I washed the boat Friday in preparation for painting on Saturday.  The plan was for both of us to start early Saturday masking, get the first coat of Intergrip on and maybe the second (and […]

Bomar hatches

Glazed Over with Projects

Hatches & Cabin Top Projects – Week 2 In typical boat-project fashion, refurbishing the two overhead hatches has taken way longer than expected.  Rich managed to get both Bomar metal hatch frames off the boat without bending them too much.  He removed the old glazing, scraped out the weather-stripping, and attempted to remove the old […]

Forward hatch

No Rest for the Wicked

Rich is off work for the next TWO weeks, so there is no rest for the wicked – it’s project time again.  I briefly mentioned to him a few months ago that it would be nice to get the final paint and non-skid on the cabin top before winter.  That way next summer we can finally finish […]

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. […]

Paint Stripper

My Favorite Stripper

This weekend I finally started working on stripping the coachroof paint.  Back at the beginning of Spring, I scraped off the top layer of paint.  It seriously took me only a couple of hours because the paint was such shit.  

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