Holding Tank Pitfalls
I’ve been perplexed by our holding tank for some time. We estimate it holds a whopping 15 gallons. We only use it now for #1 and only in the morning and maybe once at night. Luckily the marina bathrooms are uber nice and we’re both gone at work all day during the week so it […]
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. […]
Rhinoplasty
\ˈrī-nō-ˌplas-tē\ noun: Plastic surgery performed on the nose, usually for cosmetic purposes Ramble On got a nose job this week. The doctor say she’s stable and should make a full recovery. Though not entirely for cosmetic purposes, we still think she looks pretty good after the procedure.
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 […]
Intergrip non skid
Yeah, yeah. I know it’s been a while since I last posted. Writing about boat projects has sort of taken a back seat to actually doing boat projects.
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.
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.
Boat jewelry
American architect Louis Sullivan coined the phrase “Form follows function”, meaning that the shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended purpose. Frank Lloyd Wright, who worked for Sullivan in the ’20s rephrased that statement to read “form and function are one”.
Teak Week
So last summer I bitched and moaned about spending all my time scraping the old Cetol and varnish off the teak and not getting it completely ready for the surface treatment. Sure, I got a nice tan, but man, did I ever get sick of it right quick. I knew I didn’t want to have a […]