Getting wood
We made a trip to the Bay Area a few weeks ago and stopped along the way at a place I’ve been wanting to visit for several years. A guy I know builds laminated wood compound bows for big game hunting and told me this is the place to go if you’re looking for exotic […]
A little less teak this week
Now that the coaming extensions are installed, it’s time to get some more wood out of the way so I can do some filling and fairing on the glass.
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.
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.
Leaky “teaky”
It’s the middle of March and it’s 80 degrees out right now. The weather down in the Delta has been pretty nice the past week and it’s starting to motivate us to get working on top-side projects. We’re hoping to get the boat back out on the water this summer, but the list of things […]