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Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Boat Hooks

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Over at Sail Delmarva , Drew has some comments on that ubiquitous tool: the boat hook Six months ago I was asked to review boat hooks for ...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Making It Bigger

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This post originally appeared on Windborne in Puget Sound If you do your own boat work, there is a situation that you have undoubtedly fac...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Ditch the Bent Nail

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Drew at Sail Delmarva has a new take on an old method: I've been doing a series of tests on backing plate materials, drilling, de-c...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Autopilot Pump Rebuild

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Today Sean and Louise, who live aboard  m/v Odyssey , give us a lesson on just how effectively ingenuity and hand-held tools can substitute ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

How much is it?

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This post originally appeared on Windborne in Puget Sound I recently did a post which talked about establishing what the right amount of ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Creating the Right Tool for the Job

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My father encouraged me to always use the right tool for the job.  But what do you do when there is no such tool ?  Well, then you make one....
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Dock Box Carpentry

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Given Norm Abram's shop, getting really good results from wood working projects is relatively easy.  But doing it on the dock, with a ve...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Curing oven

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Ever want to speed up epoxy hardening?  Or 5200?  Because time is money, manufacturers use curing ovens to save time.  But how can the savv...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Oooo... Shiny...

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This post originally appeared on Windborne in Puget Sound Dull.  Boring. In an earlier post I bemoaned the passing of the "go...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Tie shooter

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This post originally appeared on Windborne in Puget Sound (I wonder how many folks ended up here because they were looking for some Sta...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Extension Cords

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Extension cords are a pain. They seem to tangle themselves into knots when they are unsupervised in a locker somewhere.  Scott on s/v Valk...
Friday, October 25, 2013

A fairly exclusive club

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Here on Eolian , we have joined a fairly exclusive club - owners of Sailrite's walking-foot sewing machines. Sailrite LSZ-1 Our coc...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Low-Buck Project: Rig Tuning

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Does your mast flop back and forth when you tack?  Or is your rigging set up so tight that it is turning the boat into a banana?  Over at Do...