It’s finally done. (At least for now – anyone who knows anything about wood boats will tell you there there’s really no end to the work you could be doing on them.) I’ve finally finished the major projects on our Fireball – the re-sealing and painting of the hull, patching the deck hole, and repainting [...]
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Boat Project – part 4
Posted in sailing on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Boat Project – part 3
Posted in sailing on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, the fun part of this project is starting to wear pretty thin. Actually, the work itself isn’t bad and I could enjoy doing a project like this if it wasn’t for the imposed (and tight) schedule. Because I have to rent the shop space – and because this project is on a shoe-string budget [...]
The Boat Project – part 2
Posted in sailing on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, for better or for worse, the boat project is coming along. Today I started putting on the first coat of paint. Over the last three weeks I’ve put in close to 40 hours of work sanding and scraping the old paint, cleaning out the open seams, adding penetrating epoxy, sealant, filler, more sanding, primer, [...]
The Boat Project – part 1
Posted in sailing on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You may remember that about 9 months ago we bought ourselves a sail boat – a 16 foot wooden dingy called a Fireball. Keen observers may have noticed that since then, there haven’t been any posts about taking our boat out sailing. (Although we did take a sailing class back in September.) Hum… You might [...]
Sailing Class
Posted in sailing on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay – so we got our sailboat 5 months ago and we still haven’t had it out. Part of the reason is that I’m still trying to get it registered with the state marine board (a little complication with tracking down a copy of the title) and then there’s the hole in the deck that I [...]
