Oooooh, nice boat
This weekend was the Strictly Sail Pacific boat show in Oakland. Jeni and I have been coming here every year for about the last 6 years, but this year was different. We finally have a boat!
Headliner Update
I‘ve been putting off the inevitable as long as possible. I’ve removed and sealed all the deck hardware and the boat is dry as a bone now. Jeni and I have toiled and obsessed (well, I’ve been doing the majority of the obsessing) over the choice of replacement headliner material for the last several […]
Spring has sprung
Last weekend was my 42nd birthday so I decided not to work on the boat and instead went fishing. I got a shitload of bass from one of our local ponds here in Folsom, and had a really nice sushi dinner.
Making Some Head-way
I decided to tear apart the head this week. The toilet never really worked right. At one point I thought it was going to overflow and sink our boat. Or, at least fill the shower sump with stinky sewage water (which, might only have been slightly better than sinking our boat).
Little Jerry
Ever see the Seinfeld episode where Kramer had a fighting chicken named Little Jerry? Hilarious! A few weeks ago Devery, the marina harbormaster/owner, got a delivery of chicks in the mail. They’re growing up quick and a few are becoming aggressive roosters. One of the neighbors told us that last year one of the roosters […]
March Madness
March 1st and it’s 75 degrees…it’s madness, I say! Rich spent most of the week at the boat. He figured out where most of the shelves go, but somehow he ended up with some spares. The doors are back on the cabinets and all the crap spread around the boat while I painted, is now […]
Getting Down to Business
Boat projects the past couple weekends included finishing sanding the cabinets and painting the cabinets. I only had the front half of the boat to sand so I hung a tarp, opened a hatch and some ports, donned my dust mask and dove in. What a dusty mess!
Did I mention how much I hate to paint?
Jeni is out of town this week and I won’t be working down at the boat, so I decided to get some of the painting done. Interior Lockers Phase-1 involved using Behr Premium Plus Ultra exterior latex that we read about on someone else’s sailing blog. It went on pretty nicely and Jeni did a […]
New lights!!
Our package from Defender.com arrived on the front porch this afternoon. Christmas in February!! We ordered 4 new dome lights and the new #14 marine grade wire to tie it all together (and a carbon monoxide detector, but that has nothing to do with this post). We wanted to add 2 additional lights in the […]
It’s too nice outside to work inside
We went to the boat yesterday. Not surprisingly it was a lot more fun than watching the inauguration. My chore list included sanding and painting the inside of the galley cupboards. I had no illusions about escaping this task. If painting must be to done, I’m the one who must to do it. Rich hates painting […]