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Monthly Archives: March 2009
I've Got No Strings to Hold Me Down
The amount of chaos inside Swell that had accumulated over the last two weeks of projects in the marina was mindboggling. Wood and metal scraps, half used glues and caulking, bits of wires, dirty rags, random screws, washers, and nuts, broken and assorted drill bits, frayed ends of cut ropes, cans of paint and varnish [...]
Posted in Captain Liz Clark and the Voyage of Swell Tagged French, open sea, sail, sailboat, sailing, Swell Leave a comment
Reef Smooch
To my own disbelief, I had correctly wired in the wind generator and watched with glee the next morning as the ammeter on the board showed amps coming in with each gust! Without further celebration, I got back to work to remount and rewire the solar panels. My ‘albatross’, arrived in timely fashion with my [...]
Wind Generator, Some Assembly Required
With Sylvain’s assistance, the wind generator post goes up”¦up”¦up”¦and we both stand back and have a look”¦ “Trop haut,” (too high) we both agree. “It’s going to vibrate too much.” UGH. The sun is almost setting, can’t it just be right!? We pull it down again. I dismount the wind generator, hang it from the [...]
Foreign Pests of All Sizes
After a weekend of full surf immersion, I greeted the final items on the list last Monday with a sunburnt smile”¦ Okay, here we go”¦ Pull up the re-cut headsail. Go to the top to see where it lays. Search my hardware extras and find the PERFECT piece to lash to the masthead to make [...]
Posted in Captain Liz Clark and the Voyage of Swell Tagged repair, sailboat repair, sailing, sunburn 1 Comment
A Sprint to the Present
Swell is once again bobbing happily in the Pacific”¦for now, only at the boatyard marina, but piece by piece and day by day Swell comes together. Under time pressure from the Dear & Yonder filmmakers to be ready for some action in the next few weeks, I have been busting my tail to get her [...]
Approach Avoidance… I Don't Wanna Go