Category Archives: Equipment Failures

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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Buffett Finale – Skirting the Dauphin Island Regatta Storm

Posted on July 1, 2015 by

April 25, 2015: Since our Buffett debauchery started early, our night ended pretty early, too.  After a few hours hooting and hollering and bopping flying beach balls at the Buffett concert, we were beat. We crashed hard on the boat … Continue reading →

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Bon Buffett Voyage – Day One: A Shoddy Shifter

Posted on June 3, 2015 by

April 21, 2015: Last year, we spent the Captain’s birthday pillaging the shops of Duval Street, searching for “zee best key lime pie on zee island!”  We were smack-dab, mid-way through our 2014 trip to the Florida Keys and celebrating … Continue reading →

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The $3.49 Fix

Posted on May 13, 2015 by

November, 2014: Okay, so it was $3.76 after tax, but the part–the one itsy bitsy, tiny little part that made our whole engine run–was three dollars and forty-nine cents. How long did it take us to figure that out?  I’d … Continue reading →

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