Windborne in Puget Sound

Well, almost ten. Way back in 2010, I bought a pile of 6" square solar cells , with the intention of making a bunch of solar panels. ...

This weekend I completed the last portion of the mainsail stack pack sail cover. Wait... "stack pack" - what's that? A sta...

I have to give all 3 of you patient readers closure on the generator issues... It's done.  Finished. I filled the fresh water side w...

It's hard to remember after so much work on the generator, that the original intent was only to change the oil. Done, nearly Never...

Maintenance recursiveness continues. Being unable to budge the stubs left from grinding off the bolt heads, the only remedy was to remove ...

Heads ground off the bolts As I mentioned previously, I intended to grind the heads off of the bolts.  I could not budge the two on the ...

Well, there has been a little progress. Kohler oil filter stand-in I have removed the remote oil filter mount, the (rusted out) oil li...

As a normal part of pre-season maintenance, I change the oil in the generator. No big deal, right?  Should take less than an hour. Befor...

As with many projects, the design and planning stages take longer than the actual execution.  Making a new sail cover for Eolian 's mizz...

Design notes For some reason which is obscure to me,when I am designing something, all my ideas and calculations end up on sticky notes....

 It's cold outside. Eolian sits in her slip, double-tied and with our additional "winter fenders" as prevention against the...

Eolian is a ketch.  And her mizzen boom extends out considerably beyond the stern rail.  As you might expect, this makes puttin...

In the " last " post (OK, now this one is the last post...) on the bimini canvas renewal, Kelvin asked what the final cost was.  I...

Finally, I have completed the last of the three cockpit bimini canvas pieces:  the center section.  This panel is zipped to each of the forw...

One of two failing ratty fixed ports Last summer while doing gelcoat repair, I mentioned that the ratty fixed ports on Eolian 's a...

You know, there is something kind of irritating about Facebook's "Your Memories" posts, well at least for me, this spring.  I...

Round two of cockpit canvas replacement - the roof section of the dodger - is done!  Here's how it went: Topstitching the aft tail s...