A tip of the cap
How do you make a straight piece of wood bend around corners? Well, if you’ve been following us for a while, you might recall my previous experiment in steam bending. I briefly entertained this idea for the cockpit coamings, but almost immediately realized this would not work for what I needed to do outside.
Update on the Teak Sealer
Last summer I finally completed refinishing the teak. Just before winter (October-ish) I put on a maintenance coat of StarBrite Teak Oil and Sealer. After about six months of rain and cold, the sealer is starting to fade which is about how long I thought it would take.
Cockpit Coamings
We haven’t posted in a long time so I just wanted to do a quick update on what we’ve been doing. Remember that $500 piece of teak we bought at MacBeath’s about 18 months ago? Well, Rich finally got up the nerve to make the first cuts on that teak for the cockpit coamings a […]
Dinghy-ling
Two years ago we bought a used 11’6″ Achilles Inflatable RIB. It had a gouge in the fiberglass bottom and a patch on the front pontoon. Obviously something had been dropped on the dinghy, but it was holding air at the time and for the price we didn’t care that much. After two years of use […]
How do we gauge our progress?
I wonder what sort of thought process was involved when the American Boat and Yacht Council convened to establish a standardized system of wire color coding. Light blue for the oil pressure gauge? Tan for water temperature? Shouldn’t it be the other way around based on the “color” of the liquid we’re gauging? Black might […]
Ready to flush?
The wires were wired, the hoses were plumbed, and the salt tank was making saltwater. The only thing left to do now was to push the button and see if it worked.
Putting a crimp in my style
As part if the ongoing marine sanitation device installation I’ve been working on, I have some new wiring to do. Up until now I’ve been getting by with my barely adequate Klein crimpers.
Finally, a cheap project
Don’t worry, I’m still working in the installation of our new MSD. Work (the kind that pays me money) has been busy, so I’m sorta’ doing boat things on the weekends. The other day on my way home I stopped at Lowe’s and saw these hanging next to the check out line…
Wye not?
Happy New Year!! A few parts I needed showed up in the mail this week so I spent a little time working on the Electro Scan wastewater treatment system.
Two tears in a bucket
So while I wait on the Big Brown Truck to deliver a few more parts I need in order to finish installing the new Electro Scan treatment unit, I thought I’d build the salt injection tank system…