Archive for the tag 'Maintenance'

Aug 17 2010

Kayak Maintenance

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As I’ve mentioned before, several of our Marina neighbors stow their kayaks in front of our boat. In exchange for that, we often borrow them. Sadly, our friend Matthew sold his boat, and was giving his two-seater sit-inside boat to his brother, for him to use with his kids. Matthew came out a few days [...]

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Jun 20 2010

Lessons and Luck as a Liveaboard

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Lately, we’ve had quite a few non-boat folks aboard, and I’ve been all self-congratulatory about how adapted to boat life we are, and how far we’ve come in our knowledge. Pride goeth before the fall, yeah? Oh yeah. So we’ve been out and about a whole lot lately. Jason’s working like a mad dog at [...]

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Feb 04 2010

The Lack of an Anemometer

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A little over two and a half years ago, Jason was sailing the boat from Emeryville to San Francisco, to visit me while I worked at JavaOne at Moscone Center. And while he was on the way, he cut it a little too close to the new Bay Bridge, and shaved the top of the [...]

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Dec 15 2008

The Mariner’s Trimaran

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Over Thanksgiving, we went to visit Jason’s folks, Mom2 and Grandpa Allen. It was a lovely time, and much goodness was had. By everyone else. Me? Upon being told that their aging Compaq had, um, issues, as we say in the trade, I spent two and a half days beating it into submission. The boys [...]

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Sep 17 2008

Always Something

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There’s something to learn every single time you take the boat from the dock. Take this morning. We’d put off doing the pumpout until there was no more putting it off, if you know what I mean. Had. To. Go. So, off we went. Cast off from the dock, head down the channel, and as [...]

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Sep 02 2008

Haunted By Curves

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We have, in our salon, what Rowan refers to as "the three couch". The thing looks like a big "3". Go ahead… picture how many curves that is in terms of cushions. And of course, we have two small boys; a species not known for their ability to keep fabrics and sitting surfaces clean. Which [...]

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Feb 28 2008

A Project In Every Room

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Long ago and far away in another world, when Jason and I first moved in together, in our search for rental digs (very very hard to find in Santa Cruz, CA), we settled on a place that I considered to be “cute and funky” and Jason, with his lifetime of experience in building trades, considered [...]

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Dec 12 2007

Never Do Anything Differently

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One of the basic tenets of hosting non-sailors on your boat, especially when you’re liveaboards or cruisers, is “Never do anything differently than you normally do.” Well, this weekend, we absolutely exceeded ourselves in sticking to it. My friends and colleagues Alec and Adriana, and their friend Geoff, came to visit us on the s/v [...]

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Nov 07 2007

Dinghy Ride

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Yesterday started out pure suckage. Short form, I had a ton of unpleasant, bureaucratic, paperwork-related tasks in my queue. And I am wrestling with a cold. And pregnancy nausea (the fool who called it “morning sickness” should be taken out and shot). And it was just looking like a lousy day all the way around. [...]

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Jun 23 2007

One Thing Leads To Another

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The thing about a boat like ours is that sometimes, it’s actually a lot more like Easter than it is like, oh, boating. The man we bought her from did not believe in maintenance. We knew that up front, and figured we could tackle it. We knew, for example, that when the anchor windlass broke, [...]

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