April 23, 2009A nice little addition. Our PFDs are in the aft bench, which is a little difficult to access because you have to pull up the cushions and panel of the bench seat, while working around the table. We wanted an access door in the side. Ma…
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Windscreen
April 23, 2009Our flybridge windscreen has had a crack through it ever since we bought the boat. Having mostly completed the higher-priority issues, I finally had a new windscreen fabricated by Total Plastics in Baltimore.I brought them the old windscr…
Ready or Not
April 4-6, 2009In past years, we had Mariner II hauled at our home marina, Shipwright Harbor. It’s a relatively small marina with limited yard space, so the boats are crowded, making off-season work difficult. In winter 2008/2009, we were hauled and …
Incoming!
Tons of updates coming shortly… We’ve made a lot of repairs, updates, and improvements since mid-2009, and I finally want to get them documented. Some of these will be posted out of order, but it’s the only way I’ll get this done.
Recap of 2010 Season
2010 Hours Logged: 113.25The 2010 season was unusual in that we had relatively little work to do in the spring, but we got started late anyway due to other obligations. Our first real weekend on the water didn’t happen until May 15, a full one month l…
Blog Changes
I probably should post a recap of 2010 before the 2011 season gets underway, but before that, here are a couple interesting notes (interesting to me, at least…).Last spring (April 2010), I dumped my increasingly unreliable Windows Mobile phone for a …
Recap of Remaining 2009 Weekends
Hours logged: 36.0Wow, it is SO much easier to post brief updates and pictures to Facebook than it is to keep up a blog. Facebook combined with my laziness has nearly left this blog for dead… So this is what it has come to: bullet-point posts to r…
Handrail Covers
More canvas! Pretty soon, our entire boat will be wrapped in blue canvas 😉 Mark made the two for the flybridge, and Michele made the two for the foredeck. These may seem a little silly or overkill to anyone who hasn’t cared for teak… but these w…
Deck Rot
During the rainy weekend of 8/22/2009, Michele and I discovered (to our deep dismay) that we had water coming into the cabin through the aft-most stanchion base on the port side. A lot of water. We woke on Sunday morning to drier weather, so we prepa…
Pram Canvas
The canvas cover for the dinghy is done! Mark, as usual, served as inspiration. We more-or-less copied his, except that ours doesn’t come down the hull-sides as far as his. Our pram’s hull is painted rather than varnished, so it doesn’t need the sam…
