I’ve had the boat out a couple times since installing the new tiller. You know how when you were a kid and got brand new shoes and thought you could run faster? Well, I think my boat may be faster now! Haha.
Tag Archives: Onboard Projects
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It took a long, long time…
She’s never been out on the boat before, and I want to make sure that when I take her sailing for the first time it’s nice and easy. I’m thinking 80 degrees with 8-10 mph winds would be the perfect scenario. That was not the weather we had this date…
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Whittling away at “the list”
A co-worker commented about how long my to-do list was for my boat. Thankfully, most of my list is purely cosmetic or upgrades for the sake of convenience. I’ve been…
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With a boat, there’s always a list
I’m a “list person”. I love lists, especially checklists, so I can check things off as ‘done’. I’ve been known to create a list with check-boxes after I’ve done something, just so I’ll have a completed checklist.
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A headsail downhaul line
There’s many times I go out sailing single-handed and because of that I continually seek to improve the safety of how I do things. My latest project was to install a downhaul line for the headseail.
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Tightening the boom end tang
Removal and maintenance on the boom end tang on a Catalina 25 sailboat.
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A boat I don’t know on a lake I’m not familiar with
….and then I sat there for several minutes….wondering if I was even going to go out. The wind had picked up to about 12 or 13 mph and for the first time in a long time I was apprehensive about going out sailing. What if something happened out there……I’m in a boat I don’t know on a lake I don’t know….
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Tiller Repair [part 2]
I mixed up the epoxy, spread the split apart a little more than it was already and put the epoxy within the split. I put it as far down into the split as I could. I then clamped the tiller end shut with the C-clamps.
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Tiller Repair [part 1]
I can either repair it [whilst also increasing my knowledge of sailboat maintenance and repairs] or simply buy a new one [and learn nothing].
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Slight Mishap
The mishap occurred about twenty minutes before I became aware of it. I pointed into the wind, hoisted the mainsail and the jib. As soon as I fell off the wind a bit and the jib caught air I realized my mistake.. Twenty minutes before, while at the dock, I had rigged…..