Sail Repair
March 20, 2022 Last summer my lovely new Rolly Tasker Code Zero caught a small split pin in the rigging that wasn’t taped…. ugh! Luckily …
maintenance
Evinrude Handle & repaint
January 2022 Two summers ago the plastic handle snapped as I lifted the motor. I epoxied it together and it lasted half a season. I …
Refinish teak & holly cabin sole
The floor was getting bad enough and I wanted to do something for several years. I pulled it up in the fall and took it …
Late spring
May 2019 This year spring took a long time in coming. Mid April a Canadian Coast Guard ice breaker turned back at Hope island as …
Diesel Dowty seals
January 2019 Our boat has always been fairly diesel-y smelling (previous post), I wrote the smell off, to being just the nature of the beast, …
primer pump and o-rings
September 2018 My trusty dingy motor, a 1987 Evinrude E4RCUD, started to give me trouble in the spring. I traced the issue to worn o-rings …
LED bulbs
I’ve slowly replaced most of my bulbs with LED. All the cabin lights were switched over two years ago and I finally properly installed the …
Dinghy transom fix
Feb 2018 I killed an afternoon fixing a crack in the hard-bottom dinghy transom. It looks like someone removed the backing plate and motor mounts …
Small Projects 2017
January 2018 I tend to forget how many little things I do on/to the boat. In my mind, most of them are opportunities, not maintenance …
Aft cabin bulkhead door
January 2018 The aft cabin on the Hunter 340 has a teak bulkhead hiding the fuel and waste tanks and the rudder shaft. There is …