Hey, it actually fits

How ’bout that feeling you get when you work on something for months and are finally rewarded with success?

Jello mold

I haven’t posted much lately, but trust me, I’ve been busy working on the boat every chance I get.  The big project looming over my head of course, has been how to rebuild the raised coamings around the cockpit.

More Teak Troubles

Yesterday I finally started sanding all the teak I’ve been stripping for the past two months.  After about 5 minutes I gave up.  The teak is so pitted and grooved I was getting nowhere.  

Weekend Update

This past weekend was the 4th of July.  As usual, we didn’t do too much.  Friday morning we took Fat Suki to Korth’s Pirate Lair for breakfast.  Surprisingly it only took us about 20 minutes to get there and we got up to 17 kph.  Way faster than we thought our little dink could go.

Stand and deliver

Jeni and I were out for a ride in the dinghy not too long ago when she noticed water wasn’t streaming out the indicator tube in the usual “like a race horse” fashion.  That stream is supposed to let you know the pump is picking up cooling water and circulating it through the engine, and […]

At least ours is above the waterline…

Jeni and I were looking forward to the long holiday weekend to get some more work done on the boat.  She’s still scraping Cetol off the teak trim, and I started investigating the source of the rotten wood I found inside the starboard cockpit coaming last week.

Port side deck and lower moldings

I haven’t been posting much lately, but I’ve been making progress on the side decks.  Weekends and evenings are the only time we get to work on the boat the last few weeks and it seems like things are going slower than usual.

Holy cowl

Like Dad always said, “If it’s stuck, use a bigger hammer.  If it breaks, it probably needed fixin’ anyway.”

I’m ap-pawl-ed

There are a lot of weird words out there in the world.  Some industries, sports, and hobbies have their fair share of weird words.  Sailing is no exception.  In fact, sailing may have more than an average amount of weird words (jibe, poop deck, and scuttlebutt come to mind). 

Thorough screening process

“The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you can build with it.”