Last Saturday will go down in history. Children will cheer, church bells will ring, and it will forever be known as The Day I Finished The Mast Wiring. I had finished almost everything a month or so ago, but to… Continue reading
Since I got the boat, I’d been meaning to do this. Finally, after I found a piece of wood that looked like it was part of the wall, I decided to finally get off my arse and do it … Continue reading
I’ve been in Ottawa on a work trip the last little while, and pretty much had no time to do anything else – though I leave tomorrow, YEAH! I hope Gudgeon is ok. Anyway, blowing off the dust off this… Continue reading
First, I managed to get the chartplotter -> laptop working. What had happened is that my NSS came with a piece of paper saying that the wiring in the manual was wrong and to use the one on the paper.… Continue reading
Ever have one of those days where everything you try to do doesn’t work? Yeah. First I started to rebed 2 more of my chainplates. Got most of the way through, and then ran out of resin. Ugh. So then… Continue reading
Quick starting note: I am a COMPLETE NOVICE at rigging so if anyone reading spots anything egregious please let me know! This is what my old block system for the main sheet looked like (non-sailor note: the main sheet is the… Continue reading
So, I finally did it. 16 months after getting the boat, I finally managed to anchor out somewhere overnight, and I didn’t even die! Surprising since the place we went to was literally called ‘Murder Bay’, off wolf island. MURDER… Continue reading
I got my Simrad RS35 radio back after RMA’ing it (the NMEA2000 port stopped working – in fairness to simrad, they straight up sent me a brand new unit), which meant I could hook up the PA/Foghorn system which I… Continue reading