Category Archives: Equipment Failures

Shipyard Vid 3: New Coupling & Rot Repair

Posted on January 25, 2019 by

Calling all boat project fanatics, this one’s for you! Boy, did we have a time trying to get our engine aligned. While Phillip and I knew we had some kind of issue going on with our prop shaft, the key … Continue reading →

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Shipyard Vid 2: Removing the Quadrant & Replacing the Cables

Posted on December 10, 2018 by

Maybe they should change that B.O.A.T. saying to “bonded or about to.”  The hardest part of our rudder drop was getting the stinking quadrant off! Heat, impact, cheater bars, nothing would work.  So, the creative guys at Perdido Sailor had … Continue reading →

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Shipyard Vid 1: Reinforcing the Rudder Post

Posted on November 29, 2018 by

Hey hey crew! As I write from La Rochelle, I have a confession to make.  I’ve been saving a treat for you!  I was holding this for when I knew we would likely be shoving offshore, so you all would … Continue reading →

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Shipyard Project No. 3: Replacing the Coupler and Cutless Bearing and Re-Bedding the Strut

Posted on August 24, 2018 by

Many props to our prop for hanging in there with us for so long (even though we were blind to her suffering!). We’ve been battling this problem for several years now and simply did not know what the underlying problem was. We … Continue reading →

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Shipyard Project #2: (Re)moving the Quadrant: Bonded Bolts and Other Obstacles

Posted on August 14, 2018 by

Maybe they should change that B.O.A.T. saying to “bonded or about to.”  I’m sure many of you have faced this.  One of the hardest parts of a boat project is the initial disassembly. Trying to get bolts that have been in … Continue reading →

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Post-Bahamas Boat Projects (We’re Dropping the Rudder!)

Posted on June 1, 2018 by

Schadenfreude.  I know it’s German, but I have no idea how to say it.  A good friend of ours taught it to us when he was telling us what great pleasure he took in seeing Phillip and I knee-deep in … Continue reading →

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BV4 (VIDEO): Across the Gulf Stream to West End

Posted on January 29, 2018 by

“Never cross with a north wind!”  Can you hear it?  Pam Wall’s little energetic voice?  She repeated this warning many times when we first saw, heard and met her at the Miami Boat Show back in February, 2015.  I had … Continue reading →

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