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Boat Maintenance

Although it’s not the end of summer yet, we will be heading back to our property in Arizona for a few months, so this is a good time to reflect on what we got done this year. Here is a list of what we have done: Installed rebuilt hydraulic steering […]

Summer Accomplishments at the Sailboat

August 30, 2020 in Boat Maintenance by Captain Tom

Last week I realized that it was time to do the 250 hour maintenance to our new diesel. We had actually gone over a few hours, but we were close. The maintenance is pretty easy and consists of changing filters, changing o-rings, change the belt, and a few other odds […]

Strange Problem With the Diesel

August 4, 2020 in Boat Maintenance by Captain Tom

We were all ready to go to Catalina Island. I installed the rebuilt steering pump, pressurized and bled the system, and we tested it for four hours, turning back and forth, doing circles and “S” turns. All seemed well until it didn’t. The next morning we were scheduled to sail […]

Ready to go to Catalina, Then This Happened!

July 15, 2020 in Boat Maintenance by Captain Tom

Sailboat sank — BBTK: Batteries Bilge bumps Through-hulls Oh, yea and keel bolts if you have them To us, the three most important items on a sailboat, or any boat for that matter, are the batteries, the bilge pumps, through-hulls, and keel bolts, although sailboats like ours have an encased keel. We were […]

Four Most Important Things to Remember!

August 28, 2019 in Boat Maintenance tagged bilge pump / sailboat by Captain Tom

A few days ago we partook on the fun task of patching our skiff. Several months ago when First Mate completed the dinghy chaps, I patched a few holes that came from someone that had over-zealously motored our skiff into a dock. The dinghy chaps will help prevent this in […]

Patching the Skiff

June 28, 2019 in Boat Maintenance / Getting Ready tagged repairs / skiff by Captain Tom

Did the title grab you? Well, the smell of burning plastic grabbed us this morning. As it turns out the electrical that I have been wanting to get to for some time now, was the culprit. To put a finer point on it, the buss on the power transfer switch […]

Uh Oh, Something is Burning!

December 24, 2018 in Boat Maintenance / Getting Ready by Captain Tom

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