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
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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
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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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Taking the ferry to work
The last few days I’ve been “commuting” from our place on Vashon Island into downtown Seattle. Part of it was a trial to see how it was to commute,
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Climbing the mast
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had to climb the mast of my sailboat to get at some things that were broken, and also to install a new system
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Living on a houseboat?
I’ve been thinking off and on for a while about moving from my current 1 bedroom, 900sf apartment into something a little more unique, and a little larger. Friday,
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Sailing ... slightly cold but still nice
In the last two weeks I’ve been out on the water twice, once only for a short sail (about 2 hours) and today for about 4. Last week it
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