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Category: Boat Projects

Cockpit Sole Rebuild – Part 1 Demo

June 18, 2011 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

Now that we’ve been working on this project for weeks, I wish I had posted mini-project updates as I went.  Since I wish I had, I’m going to split it[…]

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Increasing Solar Efficiency

February 15, 2011 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, Life Under Sail

I really like this: Atom Voyages: Solar Tracker. (Oops, broken link.) On S.V. Sapien, James and I had a small solar panel on a cup-and-ball mount and another on a[…]

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Oven Update

December 6, 2010 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

We’ve now used the oven twice. This is our second masterpiece. The first pizza on a new boat has been our traditional way of making ourselves at home. This pizza,[…]

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Long Awaited Project

December 3, 2010 Dena Boat Projects

James and I have been living on this boat for nearly two years.  We know it pretty damn well, and there aren’t too many problems we haven’t fixed, created a[…]

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For the Love of Spanish Cedar

November 4, 2010 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

One of the best things about a boat our size is this: everything we do is a dramatic improvement.  We’ve worked pretty hard on this lovely creature, and she keeps[…]

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The Haul-Out…

October 21, 2010 James Boat Projects, James' Blog

Our boat is 49 years old and this year for her birthday, we got her a Haul-Out! We’ve spent the last three days Hauling her out of the water, putting[…]

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Refinishing the Hard Dodger, Part 1

October 15, 2010 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

At the same time I was working on the plumbing, James and I have been fixing up our aftermarket hard dodger.  It’s a really nice feature on this boat, keeping[…]

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Plumbing Systems, Part 1

October 14, 2010 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

We needed to CHANGE EVERYTHING!  I usually hate projects that start like that because, sooner or later, we decide to keep part of the old system after all.  And that’s[…]

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The 17 Buck A/C Unit…

July 27, 2010 James Boat Projects, James' Blog

Hot!!! Man, is that an under-statement! The past week has been in and out of the 100’s like a Pynchonian simile (here)… Damn, it’s been hot! …So I had this[…]

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