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Windborne in Puget Sound: April 2015
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Windborne in Puget Sound. Life aboard s/v Eolian. Monday, April 27, 2015. A couple of posts back I talked. About getting some color-matched gelcoat from Fiberlay. And I promised I would tell you about the results. Well here they are:. Filling some screw holes and chips on the edge of a cockpit seat. Looks pretty good, doesn't it? But the color match is absolutely perfect! Huge kudos to Fiberlay. For a match well made! Posted by Robert Salnick. Monday, April 20, 2015. First, at home I cut and trimmed the ...
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Zach Aboard: February 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015. Day tripping from Granada. Thousands of years ago Mombacho volcano spit up tossing rocks into Lake Nicaragua. There are 365 islands, or isletas, ranging in size. This maze of protected water is home to about 1200 people full time. A mix of Nicaraguans and ex-patriots form this community that is totally within the islands. Everything from an island for school, to an island for church, to an island just for the cemetery. The reserve itself is simple but beautiful, a peaceful litt...
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Zach Aboard: roadtripping north
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Sunday, August 09, 2015. We took a rather last minute road trip last month to hang out with friends up north. Normally this time of year finds us pointing our wheels west, towards Michigan and Chicago to see my family. But the kids had never been to New England and we were long overdue for visits with friends up that way, so away we went. They are land based now in Maine, and were kind enough to let us invade, even with the dog. I haven't been to Maine in a long time, since I was working for HGTV way bac...
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Zach Aboard: My Writing
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Here is a not at all updated but close enough set of links to my published writing:. The World Is A Kitchen. Read an excerpt of the chapter I contributed here. Fall 2011 page 193). Rhythm of the Home. If You Give A Boy A. How I Downsized My Son's Birthday Party. April 2014 Multihull Magazine by SAIL. Interior Design On A Boat. A Life Afloat (cover story). 20 Miles Around. Miami. 20 Miles Around. Annapolis. Top Ten Tips for Long Range Cruise Prep. Multihulls Are Better On The Bay. Food for Thought (pg 45).
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Windborne in Puget Sound: July 2015
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Windborne in Puget Sound. Life aboard s/v Eolian. Monday, July 20, 2015. Transitioning to retirement is not an event. it is a process. And at this stage of the process, we have discovered that our previous usage patterns for the boat have changed. We have settled (for now, at least) on two weeks because of a couple of things. First, garbage. Regular readers of this blog may remember that I have mentioned before that our limiting capacity on Eolian. So, is this better? Posted by Robert Salnick. 2 The shoa...
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Windborne in Puget Sound: August 2014
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Windborne in Puget Sound. Life aboard s/v Eolian. Wednesday, August 27, 2014. The Curve of Time, Revisited. Think back. Do you remember the third grade? Where the teacher, at her wits end at the end of the day, had you kids put your heads down on your desks and spent the last half hour quietly reading to the class? Are still stuck in my head from that experience. And it was. An experience. it was much more than the story alone. Several years ago (have I been blogging that long? The Curve of Time. Now put...
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Windborne in Puget Sound: Surveying
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Windborne in Puget Sound. Life aboard s/v Eolian. Friday, July 10, 2015. So today I spent a little while in the dinghy with my new depth sounder. Taking measurements. All of the readings in the picture above are ones I made. Since I am crowd sourcing this data, I made sure that it was corrected for the tide before adding it to the chart. Three things were learned:. 1 There is adequate water off that private dock should we need to tie to it in an emergency. More surveying to come. Posted by Robert Salnick.
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Windborne in Puget Sound: June 2015
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Windborne in Puget Sound. Life aboard s/v Eolian. Monday, June 29, 2015. Recently when anchored in a familiar bay, we saw a boat anchored in a location that was filled with submerged pilings. Or at least in the past it was. Years before, we had actually surveyed this part of the bay by dinghy at low tide and marked the locations of the pilings we could see using a hand-held GPS. Did he know something we didn't? Or was he blithely happy in his ignorance (and lucky)? And then there are the ones that have a...
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Windborne in Puget Sound: December 2014
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Windborne in Puget Sound. Life aboard s/v Eolian. Monday, December 29, 2014. You may remember that one of the early projects we did on Eolian. Was to rebuild the refrigerator. From the hull out. As a part of that project, I discarded the original door and replaced it with one that I got at the old Doc Freeman's for $10 because the decor panel was damaged. I replaced that panel with a sheet of black Plexiglas (thanks Clear Cut Plastics. And remounted it on the original hardware. Sure Marine is one of thos...
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Windborne in Puget Sound: February 2015
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Windborne in Puget Sound. Life aboard s/v Eolian. Monday, February 23, 2015. A Small Little Project. Our rail-mounted BBQ table (it's really a fish cleaning table, but Fish Do Not. Not bad for $15 and a couple of hours work in the shop! A Small Little Project. Posted by Robert Salnick. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Look close - there's algae there too. Well, I did some research - it is such a wonderful thing to have the bulk of Man's knowledge at your fingertips! Algae, moss and lichens suffer grave bodily...
