Scalzi with a good post on billionaires/boycotts, Ian Welsh saying what we should already know, and over in the “REMF” department… I’m finding it difficult to continue doing what I need to do with crap like this raining down on our parade. For instance, yesterday’s task (installing a couple of solar controllers) should have been …
A very good point, some democrats should take note, and an important read… It’s no secret that cruising can be expensive. Nearly everyone will tell you that but I’m not one of those guys. While there are numerous reasons that cruising can be dauntingly expensive, with a bit of care and forethought abject poverty can …
Some Tesla news, about that anticipatory obedience, and a welcome alternative to Amazon… I used to work in a boat gear consignment shop and it taught me about what works, what doesn’t, and how gear fails. It also confirmed my suspicion that 90% of sailing folks are idiots who love being treated like an ATM. …
Something from the “possible pandemic” department, a timely yet apt cartoon and we’re back to zombie apocalypse territory… How about a DIY build your own sextant kit? Not a bad Holidaze present at all. That said, the Celestial Navigation Starter Package might be a better investment in the long run.
For starters, it’s a monohull somewhere between 26 and 38 feet long and, while there are a few outliers, the average falls somewhere around 30 feet. By current “Yachting” standards it is too old to be fashionable and its age is somewhere on the wrong side of 25. The main thing you can say about …
Back during the aftermath of Hurricane Maria with nothing better to do, I painted “So It Goes” while at anchor in the mangroves. The paint I chose was Rust-Oleum aluminum paint. My thinking at the time was that it was something Phil Bolger mused would make a good boat paint, it was dirt cheap ($13 …
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that the bilge pump was cycling more often than it should, so we looked in all of the usual places. Since we’ve had a lot of rain recently, we found several deck fittings that had been poorly bedded and that, combined with a few leaks we already knew …
Have you noticed that it’s almost impossible to find a new manual anchor windlass? Or, if you do it’s more expensive than a powered one? When you do find a good manual windlass the cost is often right at the cost of a brand spanking new electric windlass. Is that nuts or what? The Islander …
Yeah, not bad for $100 dollars! Seriously, drilling 316 stainless with a battery powered hand drill is so not going to happen ever again… While, no stranger to stationary tools in the workplace, I’ll have to admit that a drill press is a very handy tool aboard. Admittedly finding a dedicated storage place on a …
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The funny thing about most boat projects is that the initial plan seldom resembles the final outcome. This can be good if your plan evolves in a positive way or all kinds of bad if you lose control of your plan and find yourself with an out of control budget. For me, the central concept …
