When power goes wrong
Yesterday I made a trip down to the sailboat to do a few things, and when I arrived, I noticed that I didn’t have any shore power. Additionally, the
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First sail of the year and a swim
On Saturday, it looked really nice out on the water near our place on the island, so I decided to go out in my dinghy for the first time this
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Bulkhead destroyed, and saga continues
It’s been a while since I’ve written about our bulkhead permit [https://seabits.com/permits-gone-wrong/] problems, but at least on that front, we don’t have to worry
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T-Mobile G2 WiFi calling and hotspot first impressions
T-Mobile released support for WiFi calling [http://press.t-mobile.com/articles/t-mobile-android-wifi-calling] and hotspot a week or so ago. I’ve been waiting for this for quite some time since
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Not a lot of sailing this year...
So far this year I’ve only really sailed once, which was about 2 weeks ago. Before then, I took the boat up to Seaview to have it hauled, painted,
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Parker fuel polishing system installed
A while ago I wrote about [https://seabits.com/fuel-polishing/] the Parker Fuel Polishing module that I found and purchased. I finally had the time a week ago to finish
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Permits gone wrong
For the last 2+ years I have been trying to get permits to repair the bulkhead out at our Vashon Island place. It’s been an exercise in futility at
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Fuel polishing
For a while I have been searching for a solution to polish my fuel on the sailboat. My motivation stemmed from one harrowing sail which I wrote about where dirt
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Collinite - magic stuff for boats
I’ve been through a lot of different waxes and treatments for boats that always seem to take forever to apply, or have some catch. I recently had my boat
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Yearly haul out
I’ve been through a lot of different waxes and treatments for boats that always seem to take forever to apply, or have some catch. I recently had my boat
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ScanStrut Self Leveling Radar Pole
In my last post here, I talked about my new Simrad NSE and the BR24 radar [https://seabits.com/simrad-nse12-br24/]. Some of you asked me how I mounted the BR24
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Simrad NSE12 + BR24
For a while I have been planning a new system on my sailboat for navigation. I started out back in 2007 with a Garmin GPSMAP 5208 [http://static.squarespace.com/
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