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Category Archives: Equipment Failures
Shipyard Vid 3: New Coupling & Rot Repair
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
Posted in 2016 Re-Rig, Boat Projects, Boat Stuff, Equipment Failures, Videos
Tagged boat projects, coosa board, coupling, haul-out, perdido sailor, prop shaft, rotten stringer, shipyard
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Shipyard Vid 2: Removing the Quadrant & Replacing the Cables
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
Posted in 2016 Re-Rig, Boat Projects, Boat Stuff, Equipment Failures, Videos
Tagged boat projects, haul-out, keel seam, perdido sailor, quadrant, shifter cables, shipyard
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Shipyard Vid 1: Reinforcing the Rudder Post
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
Shipyard Project No. 3: Replacing the Coupler and Cutless Bearing and Re-Bedding the Strut
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
Posted in Boat Projects, Boat Stuff, Equipment Failures
Tagged boat projects, haulout, prop shaft, seizing wire, shipyard, transmission
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Shipyard Project #2: (Re)moving the Quadrant: Bonded Bolts and Other Obstacles
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
Post-Bahamas Boat Projects (We’re Dropping the Rudder!)
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
BV4 (VIDEO): Across the Gulf Stream to West End
“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
Posted in Bahamas Bound, Boat Projects, Equipment Failures, Sail Skills, Videos, Voyage to Cuba
Tagged bahamas, blue water, blue water voyage, cuba, gulf stream, key west, niagara 35, offshore voyage, pam wall, west end
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