Windchime reaches her new home
This was going to be a two part process – Monday evening I was going to get the boat in the water, and then Tuesday move it. Arriving Monday, I was greeted like this. WHAT IS IT WITH SNOWFALL… Continue reading
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Getting ready
I arrived at my boat and was pleased to see the yard had finished the painting – the bottom looks a lot better now! I’d planned to fix some of the gel coat that had been scraped off on… Continue reading
Frustrations
So I arrived Saturday morning, laden with cleaning products, ready to start scrubbing the HELL out of the boat. Except – the water was off at the yard. For the forseeable future. Argh. I tried scrubbing with a bucket of… Continue reading
Doing thangs (cold wet gross thangs)
My next trip to the boat had two objectives – finish removing the exhaust elbow, and get that damn plate off the bottom (it was leaking, and I have no need for a HF radio grounding plate). For the first… Continue reading Continue reading
Fixing the shifter
As detailed in a previous post, the engine shifter on the control column wasn’t working. I was hoping that it was nothing too serious. Arriving at the boat, I got out the tool kit and set about removing the compass… Continue reading