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Author Archives: DreadPirateBiff
Little Bear Westsail 32 refit: Bye Bye Rust Bucket Blog# 155
Arrrrr me hearties. Welcome aboard. In this episode, I have to tackle a chore that I wasn’t expecting to have to tackle for a couple of years – the fuel tanks. When I bought the boat I knew the starboard … Continue reading
Posted in A Sailor's Life, About Boats, Maintenance, My Boat, Refit, Repair, Sail boat, Tools, Westsail 32, Yacht
Tagged boats, fuel tanks, hardware, project, refit, removing fuel tanks, Tools, Westsail 32 fuel tanks
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Little Bear Westsail 32 refit: Raymarine i70s Blog# 154
Arrrrr me hearties. Welcome aboard. I do apologize for the quality of this video. I primarily use a GoPro to record all my videos. In this video the result is that all the light sources show up really brightly. So … Continue reading
Posted in A Sailor's Life, About Boats, Maintenance, My Boat, Refit, Repair, Sail boat, Westsail 32, Yacht
Tagged boats, hardware, i70s, lights, project, Raymarine, refit, sailing, Tools, wiring
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Little Bear Westsail 32 refit: What’s a ‘Hockle’? Blog# 153
Arrrrr me hearties. Welcome aboard. What is a hockle? I didn’t know until I saw it and discovered that there’s a technical name for it. It’s basically a situation where three strand braided rope starts to unbraid and twist. Time … Continue reading
Posted in A Sailor's Life, About Boats, Life & other musings, Maintenance, My Boat, Refit, Repair, Sail boat, Sea Dogs, Tools, Uncategorized, Westsail 32, Yacht
Tagged boats, British Columbia, hardware, hockle, project, Tools, wiring
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Little Bear Westsail 32 refit: More Head Cabinetry Blog# 152
Arrrrr me hearties. Welcome aboard. Cabinetry work. I am no carpenter, but I think I did a fair to passing job on this. Might even call it ‘spiffy’. Yup, that’s ice. ICE! So much for global warming. More like … Continue reading
Posted in A Sailor's Life, About Boats, Maintenance, My Boat, Refit, Repair, sanitation, Tools, Westsail 32, Yacht
Tagged boats, cabinetry, hardware, project, refit, Tools
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Little Bear Westsail 32 refit: Cabinetry & A new dingy seat Blog# 151
Arrrrr me hearties. Welcome aboard. Time to get busy repairing the dingy seat along with some other little chores. Chore one: plumb the fresh water intake for the head. The hose that I had originally installed would have worked but … Continue reading
Posted in A Sailor's Life, About Boats, dingy, Maintenance, My Boat, Refit, Repair, Tools, Westsail 32, Yacht
Tagged boats, hardware, hose, project, refit, sailing, Tools
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Little Bear Westsail 32 refit: New Electro Scan Blog# 150
Arrrrr me hearties. Welcome aboard. Out with the old, in with the new. The new Electro Scan unit arrived and I’m going to install that bad boy. Or good boy as the case may be. This is an expense I … Continue reading
Posted in A Sailor's Life, About Boats, Maintenance, My Boat, Refit, Repair, sanitation, Tools, Westsail 32
Tagged boats, hardware, hose, project, refit, Tools, wiring
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Little Bear Westsail 32 refit: Of Holes & Head Blog# 149
Arrrrr me hearties. Welcome aboard. The holes be plugged – yaaaay. They need some cosmetic sanding, fairing and so on but the holes are plugged. When I get going on the interior refit, the hole near the head will get … Continue reading
Posted in A Sailor's Life, About Boats, Maintenance, My Boat, Refit, Repair, Sail boat, Westsail 32, Yacht
Tagged boats, Glass, hardware, paint, painting, project, refit, Tools
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