Recent content by Bolo

Christian, you had me laughing out loud at “the essence of a French Motel 6”!

Thinking of a smaller solar setup on my E32 and so I’ve been doing some research. The one point I do remember reading is to try and have a controller for each panel because if the only controller you have craps out then you can’t charge but if you have one controller for each panel then on...

I count myself as one of the lucky ones, I guess, because during my almost 50 year career as a photographer, with most of it being a freelance commercial/editorial photographer having a “job” was a matter of hustling to get the work from a variety of sources. So, even though I worked with a...

A little while ago I was adding my two cents to another forum and in the course of doing so I included this :egrin: smiling Ericson face to my comments. My first mate, who was just happen to be looking over my shoulder at the time (I can’t get away with anything here) asked, “So how do you do...

Wow! This topic sure got off course and it’s all your fault Christian. :egrin: Maybe this conversation needs to be moved over to the Raft Up forum? As far as truth in the news goes there is only one source for it IMO and I’m not telling here, on this internet site, cause it’s partly political...

Part Two of making interior cushions for my boat. Done, installed, new skill and lessons learned.

I have to say that we’ve had many comments from strangers walking the docks, at our home port on the Chesapeake Bay or when we’re at a transient slip, asking what band boat we have an how ”lovely“ (yes, big old sailors have used that exact word) she looks. Many, surprisingly to me at least, are...

Curious how the stern slides to port at the last minute. Prop walk from full reverse? If true this might have set it up for hitting the support. Just guessing here. Don’t know if container ships react like smaller sailboats. The truth will come out.

In Annapolis now and was texted by my brother, who lives in south Jersey, early this AM asking if I was “safe”. Called him right back from my hotel room bed and he told me the news. He knew I was coming to Annapolis and wasn’t sure of my route. Saw the shocking video! Appears that there weren’t...

$27 in spray can on Amazon

The sticky tape you’re trying to remove is call “basting tape” and it’s designed to get into fabric to hold together material before it’s stitched together. Sailrite, who sells basting tape among many other things suggests using 3M™ Specialty Adhesive Remover to remove the glue from basting tape.

These look pretty interesting too. https://www.sailrite.com/BeauClip-Panel-Mounting-System-Black

A previous owner had installed an AC/Heat pump unit under the V birth and replaced the water tank that was there with a new one in the starboard settee. Soon after we purchased the boat, many years ago, the unit had a fatal breakdown and so we hired out to have a new one installed in its place...

I’m using the same sort of hardware to mount two cushions in my boat using hardware from Sailrite. It will part of my continuing Youtube video on making interior cushions. Part 1 is already published with part 2 in about two weeks or so. Here the link for the Sailrite hardware...

This is what I found after pulling out my leaking fixed port on the port side of the boat. I stead of a graceful curve that would parallel the one on the window frame I found this jagged and drunken cut that almost didn’t work and no, surprisingly this was not the source of the leak.