Sailing Sooner
So at this point I’d taken Sooner out for her first big trip, but still hadn’t...
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Category: Maintenance
Teak Wars: The Teakening Strikes Back
One of the things that made me pretty leery about buying Sooner was the amount of exterior teak on...
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A new dinghy
Sooner came with a hard shell dinghy, which I think was fiberglass over a wooden frame. You can...
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Installing water filtration
I am horribly behind on posts, as I have done a lot of boat work in the last couple of months or...
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Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 2 – The New Schematic
So I actually got off my arse and made a (very) high level schematic which should save me at least...
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Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 1 – The old wiring
So this has actually been an ongoing project over the last (checks calendar* seven?! wow) months...
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Rewiring Sooners AC Part 4
Sorry about the gaps between posts – dealing with some personal stuff and it’s really...
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Summer updates
It’s been a while since I did a new post – most of the reason for that is that...
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Refurbishing the Head: Part Two
So after part one, I’d removed the old toilet, glassed up the two thruhulls, and removed all...
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Refurbishing the head: Part One
So Sooners head (bathroom) wasn’t in a great way when I got her – the lockers were in...
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Hauling out
Hauling out is probably my least favourite part of owning a boat. It costs a lot of money, you are...
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Rewiring Sooner’s AC: Part 3
The last part of the AC rewiring project was to replace the panel. The old panel looked like this...
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