Windborne in Puget Sound

As I mentioned previously , and you may have read, Eolian 's heat pump quit working due to lack of Freon. Never fearing to tackle a ne...

One down, one to go January was quite the month!  In no particular order: Eolian 's heat pump quit delivering heat.  It didn't...

Do I look like a guy happily anticipating a swim? Today was change-the-zinc and scrape-the-prop day. Surprisingly, the zinc was not as ...

Like the rest of the country, the Pacific Northwest has been experiencing unseasonably cold temperatures of late (well, ok - for us, 32° is ...

The dust is settled.  The tools are put away.  And once again Eolian is warmed by a heat pump.  So which one did we choose, and how did w...

It's funny how some events can strike a bright line in your life, dividing it into "before" and "after". Our ...

Uh oh... We've been going thru a cold spell here in Seattle...  several days where it never got much above freezing, and nites in th...

What's wrong with this picture? Last Friday, an hour or so before our dinner guests (the crew of s/v Ghost ) were scheduled to arri...

No job is done until the documentation is done, right? The final step in the project, long overdue: a proper label on the power panel for ...

After six hours, and a trip to West Marine to buy yet another handful of plumbing fittings, we now have a working seawater circulation pump ...

When I arrived at the end of G-dock after having been away from Eolian for a day and a half, I was surprised to see no water coming out of ...

I've blathered on about our heat pump enough that by now all of you should know how they work:  They use electrical energy to move heat...

Today in Seattle is one of those cold grey days when it could snow at just about any moment. But it is warm and cozy down below.  "W...

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There... over there on the right hand side of the picture, near the bottom... See that grey power cord snaking out of the compartment under...

The heat pump which has been keeping us warm all winter was not really installed. Last fall when I got it, I kind of jury-rigged the instal...

As I mentioned last week , we are still putting the finishing touches on the heat pump installation. One of those finishing touches is to p...

Another short Weekend Report; another bonus project report. But it is a current one - we are still working on cleaning up and finalizing th...