A slightly panic inducing list
With 72 days till the last day of work, the swiftsure race and the start of my trip, here are the...
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Tag: sailboat
It got cold (or, a list of boring jobs I did)
I don’t want to complain too much after last years winter (where it started raining in...
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Lithium Batteries: Part One – LiFePO4 design
Ok before I start I gotta give a huge NERD WARNING, as this stuff is probably going to be of not...
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Painting FINISHED! Plus a marina move
Painting Done Well, title says it all – I finished painting. Finally. It was a bit tricky as...
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Northern Century
This weekend I am taking part in my second race on Gudge – The Northern Century race. This...
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I got a call yesterday, confirming that the wait list I was on had shifted, and I had a place in the winter program at the Causeway marina, in front of the Empress Hotel (still in Victoria!) Since I decided to leave next spring...
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Leaving date
So last year I did a post about how I was hoping to leave on my round-the-world trip in September...
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Running on the spot (and running rigging replacement part 1)
Facebook helpfully reminded me that exactly a year ago I was leaving on my round-the-island trip,...
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Hebridean Wind Vane Construction: Part 10 (Pendulum)
So I hadn’t done any work on the windvane for a while, mainly because the next big thing I...
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Solid boom vang install
As part of the ‘Sail Better, Idiot’ intuitive that was kicked off after being...
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New Sails!
So I got new sails from Precision Sails! Woooo! I ordered them last September and they arrived in...
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The one where I try to fix stuff and make a hash of it
I’m not sure what it is this week but everything I’ve touched has just gone to crap...
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