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Showing posts with label anchor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anchor. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Windlass Locker Refit: Epoxy is Your Friend

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Rot is insidious. It sneaks in quietly, eating away at the structure of your boat. Mike and Melissa on s/v Galapagos discovered the rot m...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

A positive outcome and new skills!

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Mike and Rebecca, living aboard s/v Zero to Cruising ... No wait!  ZTC is for sale! And Mike and Rebecca now live and cruise on s/v Frost...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

A Platform To Stand On

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Metal fabrication is not a frequent topic here because of the specialized skills and tools it requires.  Nevertheless, good communication sk...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Why Does My Anchor Come up Backwards?

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Does yours do this? Over at Sail Delmarva , Drew asks the question, and then shows why and how to fix it: After fixing this on 3 boats (m...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Best in show

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This post originally appeared on Windborne in Puget Sound We've been to a lot of boat shows since our first, in Chicago, in 1971.  ...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Chain Stripper Modification

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Paul on s/v Solace makes a significant improvement in his windlass by redesigning the chain stripper.  This is inspirational to me (since E...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mind that windlass handle!

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s/v Siempre Sabado has a manual windlass.  Keeping the handle to that windlass handy to the windlass and yet still keeping it aboard would ...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Anchor snubber

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Down in Mexico aboard s/v Siempe Sabado , Steve builds a new anchor snubber: Decided it was time to refine my anchor snubber.  For those w...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Simple solutions

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Please welcome new contributors Scott and Brittany aboard s/v Windtraveler !  For their first contribution, they face up to a problem all bl...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

A custom anchor platform

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Because of their shape, Danforth anchors are difficult to stow on a "standard" bow roller. Rick dealt with this problem on s/v Ca...