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New Episode Posted – New Fuel System Mizzen Traveler and More AwlWood MA

This week we go over the new fuel system and share the design, considerations and draw and return process. While normally you think fuel is not all that complicated, and …

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New Episode Posted – Lost tools, Impellers and Cutting Stainless Steel

This week we lose tools. No, Seriously we lose tools. In a span of 3 days, I lost 5 tools. How does that even happen? We did start to prepare …

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New Episode Posted – Lots of Little Work equals some progress

This week we made progress on a lot of little tasks. None of these made me feel great about our progress, but getting many of them done was needed. We …

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Making mistakes and just arriving from Stupid Town – Timing Matters!!

This week we prepare the surface of the toe rails and cap rails on the boat for brightwork. I made a number of mistakes and in our typical fashion, the …

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New Episode Posted – How to make Brightwork – Bright!

Have you ever wondered how to make your brightwork shine, like you see on those showboat magazines? Do you want to know how to varnish like the pros, or better …

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How to Varnish – (Part 1) Shooting just shy of perfection

Classic Sailboat = Varnish jobs.  Period.  End of Story.  No way to Avoid it. But that is ok, if it were not something we anticipated we would have looked for …

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Featured Post - Part 2 Refinishing the butterfly hatch

Refinishing the Butterfly Hatch

We decided we needed to see a little more progress on the boat given that boat projects have slowed down quite a bit with the grandsquids moving in with us. …

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