Enhancing Our Sailing Experience with a Canvas Dodger
One important addition to our sailboat that has transformed our sailing and live aboard experience is our canvas dodger from Compass Canvas in Point Richmond. A dodger is a protective cover that extends over the companionway of a sailboat, offering shelter and safeguarding the cockpit area from the harsh conditions at sea. It is crafted […]
Installing a Cockpit Shower & Deck Washdown
Cockpit Shower We’ve seen a lot of cruising boats that have a shower pump that can be used in the cockpit. We really liked that concept for a few reasons. Using the shower in the head is a bit of a chore. The curtain helps keep the water off the countertop and toilet, but there’s […]
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.
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 […]
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 day
I finished fairing out the cockpit and got a second coat of Epoxy Primekote rolled and sanded. Jeni finally intervened and said “Will ya’ leave it the F’ alone already?!”. It’s supposed to rain Monday, so Saturday was the only option for us to paint the 1-part polyurethane Pre-Kote primer and still get a couple […]
A bigger cockpit
Thursday it rained the better part of the morning, so filling and fairing fiberglass was out of the question. I decided it was finally time to pull the steering pedestal assembly and get it out of the way. I need to sand and paint inside the cockpit well and it’ll be a lot easier to […]
Put a lid on it (part deux)
Cockpit work has been slowly progressing, but it’s a pain in the arse. Sand, vacuum, acetone wipe, and fill with thickened epoxy. Story of my life lately, and I’m getting a little bored with it.