Recent content by timflan

I do not have time to list this on eBay or take it to the swap meet. Anybody need any of this? I replaced my autopilot (yay me!) and this is pure surplus. All working fine when I removed it, but won't function without a rudder position sensor, NOT INCLUDED. Also not included is the actual...

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Tristan and I made it safely here. We even responded to a pan-pan on the VHF, which wasn't too far off our path, but by the time we got there they already had a little USCG boat alongside. Good to check, if you can. Hey, any other kids coming out? Tristan needs new dock friends!

OK, friends, I've made a promise to myself to get the boat on the water and get to Friday Harbor. Will be me and little Tristan (the "plus one" in the boat name). He's 12 now. Julia busy; big kids living in Georgia. New tires for the trailer are scheduled for Wednesday; one of my >20yo tires...

Well I may not have made it to Friday Harbor this year, but the annual Brats gathering still served as the forcing factor I needed to get the boat ready to use. I completed my anode rehabilitation project Saturday, and today I splashed the boat in Ballard and ran across to Fisherman's Terminal...

I've had some engine maintenance setbacks. Making good progress, but not good enough to make Friday Harbor this weekend! :-(

Two Lucky Fish +1 will be there with Tim & Tristan (age 11). Any other younger C-Brats attending? Might be nice to tie up nearby one-another.

I've wanted to drive out Highway 1 since forever, and that's what we're doing over Christmas break this year! So of course the very next thing I think is "Hey, I want to go boating." Ideally, I'd like to run my own boat, Two Lucky Fish +1, but she'll be 3500 miles away. So, anybody got any...

Somehow, against all odds, Two Lucky Fish is on the road! Somehow, the foredeck hatch lens has been re-bedded with magic Dow Corning 795 (in the wrong color, but I didn't have time to fix that). Traffic's pretty thick into Everett. If we're all worn out by the time we get to Cornet Bay, we...

I did my research, and I've got my Dow 795! :-) The gasket is in great shape, considering its age. I'm tempted to just use it, since I already have it. I'm a little confused about the sequence: 1: clean and prep everything 2: glue the gasket in, and let it set up? My reason for doing this as a...

So I'm going to re-bed the plastic "glass". Um, this is a pretty intimidating projects. So there is no "shelf" to support the lens material at the proper height. I guess that the soft gasket IS the shelf?

Bomar foredeck hatch lens rebedding: I guess this soft gasket material is the shelf?

Bomar foredeck hatch lens rebedding: No shelf! There\'s no ledge for the lens to sit on to keep it at the proper height

Bomar foredeck hatch lens rebedding: Well, now I\'m committed!