On Dena’s birthday, as mentioned in one of our last posts, we went to the Herreshoff marine museum in Bristol, RI, to discover what all hub-bub was really about. Now,[…]
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The Yankee 14
We’ve hauled our three boats out of the water a total of 7 times. Each time, it’s been fucking miraculous. For the two weeks we had our boat on the[…]
Read moreAnd this is…
Where we go from here. About a million years ago when we were in Norwalk, Connecticut, I (James) noticed a little crack in the bulkhead between the main saloon and[…]
Read moreReady to Splash
We’re drinking coffee, relaxed but excited that we’ll be underway again soon. This haulout has gone pretty damn well, considering we went into it without planning ahead. The insurance adjuster[…]
Read moreToys?!
…Ok so, Dena went to the Big Sky Place (Montana), about the time our new Simrad NSS 7 multifunction display (MFD) with 3-G broadband radar showed up… That thing is[…]
Read moreThe Fog of reconstruction…
…Life gets in the way of blogging. You know, as a member of this global community of hyper-opinionated end users I feel a certain responsibility to the art-form but lack[…]
Read moreFor two anchors aweigh…
…One must have a completely different rig than the one we had, and I do mean, had. …As jankey as it looked it was a workable rig for gunkholing up[…]
Read more… And then the mast went up!
We lifted the stripped mast on to the deck and rigged it up on deck. The day was, at this point, perfect… … With the wind generator tied off and[…]
Read moreTongue and Groove
The repaired bulkhead is now clad in 1×3 tongue and groove oak boards. There are some trim issues to be sussed out, and the fasteners need to be bunged, but[…]
Read morePutting things together
That’s my dad. Dean Hankins. He spent a couple weeks with us, during with time I put him to work about half the time. We also managed to do some[…]
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