Freshening up before the new year
This winter, starting the all around every four years of wooding the Dorade boxes and buying a new dodger and sail cover.
Preparing for Christmas aboard
I was thinking this morning of what I intend to take from home for Christmas week aboard Siskiwit. That brought up memories of 1992 when Rachel, Brooke and I were purging all our excess things, putting the house up for rent, placing the car on blocks, giving so much to Goodwill and Salvation Army and …
Fresh White Bilge
Every boat needs to be stripped at some point. The entire hull and deck and coach roof of Siskiwit had gel coat removed and awlgripped, but, since we were pulling up the cabin sole, it provided the perfect timing and access to the entire bilge. A common estimate is this should be done every 20 …
The advantage with tuning the prop
At this time of year, been thinking of heading South. How many times I’ve surfed past the buoys that marked a channel or simply aiming the bow towards a “cut” in the Bahamas. The hydrodynamics in the Exumas are easily 3 knots of current running between the shallow Exuma Bank with the deep Exuma Sound. …