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Category: Boat Projects

System failures…

October 6, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

…are no doubt part of the game when it comes to offshore sailing. The offshore passage to Cape Cod from Nova Scotia had a system failure that took us both[…]

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17 Miles for a Bolt

September 4, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

This breaking bolts on an engine that’s 30 years old is getting nerve-wracking. How many more will break – and is it because this particular Yanmar is the ONE model[…]

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Learning Curve

July 25, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Sailing away from the City of Sin in the final week of May gave us our first clue as to the complex shape of our learning curve. We were later[…]

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Pointing us!

July 21, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

Sailing, that’s what we’re doing! Without touching the wheel! She was driving herself, but she was sluggish. We both knew this boat could perform better but it just wasn’t happening.[…]

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What?!

June 19, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

We showed up at 0630 on day three and dove into the project like a couple of giddy school kids. In our recap of the mast project the night before[…]

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Oh that 555!!!

June 6, 2022 James Boat Projects, James' Blog, Life Under Sail
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…oh yeah, that infernal combustion engine.

June 4, 2022 James Boat Projects, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

…fixed that shit! Put her all back together and sailed to 3’rd beach!

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When sailing is the only option

May 27, 2022 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, Life Under Sail

All dressed up in the beautiful new Seatiger 555, James and I were raring to go and the weather looked like it might cooperate. Spring forecasts and all, but there[…]

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Oh yeah, the 555!

May 22, 2022 James Boat Projects, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

So we got this incredible machine, the Seatiger 555 windless, from Bacon in Annapolis and…it’s totally awesome and all…but the fact is our boat wasn’t built to accommodate this device.[…]

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Integrating the wind mast with the PET

May 19, 2022 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

We’d ordered the mounting kit for our new Rutland 1200 wind generator thinking that we’d use only parts of it. Because of the way the solar panels fit, though, the[…]

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