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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …