DECKadence Marine Flooring






We think we are going to install some DECKadence Marine Flooring in the cockpit.


We are working on it.

http://marineflooring.net/

Bleeding the Perkins

06/30/10
A dock mate helped me bleed the fuel lines on the Perkins. We cheated and bleed them from the injectors. Was not really hard to do, a bit messy but worked out fine. I will find out if it can be done that way all the time. We used an electric fuel pump installed by the PO and the hand pump on the engine. Also turned the motor over several times with the throttle wide open.


Now on the Beta engine there is just a little valve you turn to bleed the fuel line and it is located on the right front of the motor where it is easy to get at. You get that for a measly $12,000 or so for a re-power

Cleaning varnish off hinges on head door - 2010

June 2010 - At Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CA
 So cleaning up the hinges on the head door is easier than I thought it was going to be. They have some varnish on them and they were very dark. I was thinking it would take even some sanding but did not want to scratch them up. We have tried some polish but it makes a mess and does nothing to remove the varnish that I slopped on them.

Door latch re-install

Did not need to fix the door latch part on the door. Only need to loosen it. The latch should land on the door stop flat. Then tighten it.

Did more fill and drill on the door latch this weekend. Got it installed. Of course it is not 100 percent. Got the holes filled and sanded and painted. The color is close but not a match. The n re-installed the latch on the stoop. A piece of gel coat chipped off with one screw. The one that shows and so I will need to fill it. No big deal. After I go the top two screws in it I tried to drill the hole for the bottom one but the drill would not fit. I have an idea for that fix that I will try this week. It does work and will do the job oh holding the door. Drilling all three holes at once was too hard. You need to hold the latch in place then mark it and that was not easy.
Did more fill and drill on the door latch this weekend. Got it installed. Of course it is not 100 percent. Got the holes filled and sanded and painted. The color is close but not a match. The n re-installed the latch on the stoop. A piece of gel coat chipped off with one screw. The one that shows and so I will need to fill it. No big deal. After I go the top two screws in it I tried to drill the hole for the bottom one but the drill would not fit. I have an idea for that fix that I will try this week. It does work and will do the job oh holding the door. Drilling all three holes at once was too hard. You need to hold the latch in place then mark it and that was not easy.




It is much more of a pin in the ass than I realized having the head door flopping around without a latch. Need to time it so it can be done quickly. We put a couple small boxes on the floor to keep the door from flopping around That further reduced the floor space. Having to move them each time you need to use the toilet gets to be a pain.

Old water hose


These are the old water gauge hoses, as you can see they were getting hard to see the float inside.

The test anchoring on Sunday did not go as planned, what’s new? - 2010

The plan:
Get up have some goodies like coffee and food. Sit around and chat. Remove canvas and start motor. Leave slip, go pump out and sail to la Play anchorage. Drop hook. Play guitar chat and read. Then up anchor showing off all the new goodies. Dock and go back home - boo ho to going back home😌.

Bow Windlass wires chafe

06/26/10
I finished the chafe protection on the windlass wires running to the house batteries and all the wire ties each six inches as recommended.

New starting battery wiring working with Perkins - 2010

June 2010 - Marina Cortez San Diego, CA
Here is the starting battery secured in place but not wired

Battery "dashboard" with Blue Sea Class T 400 amp fuse block - 2010

6\28\2010 Marina Cortez in San Diego Harbor Island
 
 Made up the “dashboard” for the house batteries mostly built and in place.

Battery "dashboard" for buuses, shunt etc. - 2010

May 2010 - Marina Cortez San Diego, CA
Made up the “dashboard” for the house batteries mostly built and in place.

Bottom cleaning.San Diego - 2012

2010 - Marina Cortez San Diego, CA

 We had Star Marine doing our bottom when we had our Catalina 30. He started complaining that our bottom was getting hard to clean so we needed a bottom job. We said we are not racers or yachters so we are not going to get a bottom job done real soon. Besides we told him we are going to sell the boat so we will just take some cash off.

Sailing to South Western YC for dinner - 2010

June 2010 - At Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CA
 We went sailing on Wednesday evening and went to South Western YC for the cook out venue. s\v Elegant'sea in the back ground tied to the guest slip. We took this picture from our table. We were dining inside.

Bow anchor Snubber

It is a time thing. You know, lots of projects and where do you want to spend your time?


There are lots of ways. At this time I am setting up the solar controller for anchoring. We are connecting our starting battery for anchoring. On and on. So I could splice the lines on my lunch hour but I do need a break. Yesterday I went to our storage shed on my lunch and picked up a bunch of gear we need for sailing off shore etc. The lunch on Tuesday I went to the laundry mat and washed a bunch of rags. I get overloaded with boat projects. Need to smell some sea air. So farming out a few projects is OK.


I will also add a 1/2 line subber to the tool chest.
There is a plain line snubber I will try using also. Also I will make up a hook for setting the anchor so there is still plenty to work on anchor rode if I wish in the snubbing area.
animated knots

Anchor Snubber

 OK I got a ¾ three strand line from a dock mate and tried it on the cleat and chocks. I could not find a 5/8 line. The ¾ line worked on the cleat but did not sit down into the chocks. I then pulled the eye splice through the chock into the boat and placed it over the cleat where it sat fine. The splice in the ¾ line prevents it from being pushed into the chock.


This photo shows the cleat but with 1/2 dock line not the 3/4 line I tested.


So it does work fine and that means a 5/8 line will of course work even better. That is what is recommended for our size boat. At least from this source.


www.bosunsupplies.com/Snubber.cfm


Most people said oh ½ is fine. So that goes with "kept putting an anchor onto your boat till your dock mates start laughing and then you have the right size".


Now I know we could change out the cleats and chocks but maybe at a later date. They seem to work fine.


Now I would really like to get one of these


www.anchorbuddy.co.nz/how.html


We used a dingy anchor as a kedge on our Catalina because it danced around a lot (the baot) at anchor and the kedge worked well to stop that. Also we made a anchor sail from an old jib (dumpster diving again) and it helped.

Saining 06/20/10

We sailed Sunday and went from Harbor Island to the Coronado bridge on an easy reach. Then coming back up it was all tacking. We got to the end of Shelter Island or so and called it because it was 3:00 PM and it seemed the wind had dropped. A lot of tacking. We got pooped.

The traveler was a dream to use. The main halyard while letting it out was fine getting it back in was a lot of winching. That system is the next to get replaced. We will get a new fiddler block and boom blocks and line this summer.

The sail goes about ¾ up before we need to start using the winch to get it the rest of the way. Some track lube would help but is not the solution. A mast track is in the cards for the solution.

The jib sheets are tired and need replacing but work ok. The winches are great and I hardly had to winch in any on the jib. There was not a lot of wind and it is only 100 percent. On our last boat we had a 150 genoia and it required a lot of winching in. We are not sure what we will get for cursing for a jib. Possibly a 120 genoia.

The furler line we did not setup properly. It was user error. I put it outboard of a stanchion instead of inboard so it got twisted in the ratchet block. It worked but need a little practice with it.

All in all systems worked and it was a great day.

It was a bit crowded and city like but being Fathers day I think most did as I did. What do you want to do on father’s day, go boating! So they were out there. We like to go sailing on Saturday as my take on this is that the guys are busy either working on house (cutting the grass) or on the boat and on Sunday they sail. So Saturday seems less crowded. I do have to admit that it is never really that crowded, but for the big holidays.

We left the sail cover off as it is a pain. Having the solar panel on top of the dodger makes it a little more work also. My Kingdome for in boom furling! Oh well guess it would be. Any way we will be sailing on Wednesday and then next Sunday. We will be leaving off the sail cover till at least then.

Next Sunday we plan on our first anchor shake down. We plan to sail to La Play cove and anchor all day.

The window in the bimini is a bit hard to reach to put on and off the cover or wipe clean. It did work fine though and if any further forward we could not see the top of the mast. So with a plastic stick and rag would work for cleaning.

I think that should take care of our shake downs and we will be ready to party! Course if the Perkins keeps purring and and and etc.

We did have some water in the bilge but I think it was from over filling the water tanks.

Or our water gauge system could be leaking out the top on a heal. Next sail we can shut the little valves on top to test that.

We would like to add a boom vang. It is on the wish list. We will sail the a bunch this summer coming and make some more decisions on what we want for sail handling. Just upgrading our existing equipment will make a lot of difference running rigging and some blocks.


OK busted, we did not do a thing with the topping lift. That would have helped raising the main.
We are or I am a bit rusty.
I pulled on the furler line trying to sheet in when we did our first tack :).




Another Freeport 36 (Gary)
We saw this yacht on the bay Sunday. We saw three or four mega yacts out on the bay.

$15000.00 for 7 day charter?
resortwo

Bow anchor locker Needs new latch

 We will need a new anchor locker lid latch so if we get into riugh seas the lid does not bounce up and down or open in a big wave.







Water tank gauge

Our water gauge system is a couple hoses attached to the water tanks. This was done by the PO. We bought some new house from Home Depot and put on new SS clamps.


It seems to work OK. It will over flow to the bilge if you over fill the tanks through the top of the hose.


We are not sure yet if the hoses over flow on healing while sailing. Could be we need to close the little valve at the top of the hose when sailing. Not a big deal as we need to get into the engine area anyway to turn on the fuel before sailing (starting motor).
We will add new gauges to the tanks when we re-power. At that time we will have plenty of room to get at the tanks. That will be in 2011.


Shade screen for the stern area 70% sun block - 2010

Debbie made a shade screen for the back of the boat. It works well keeping the morning sun from frying us. Also it cuts the glare down and gives us a false sense of privacy.

Tent for shade in cockpit

Marina Cortez in San Diego Harbor Island 6\18\2010

We made a tent for the cockpit and over the companionway hatch first off for shade.

We got three PVC poles from Home Depot. Also got end caps.

On the end caps we drilled holes and tied a line to each one. The glued them on. Well the stern pole did not need them. We then attached lines to them with hooks on the lines that went to the stanchions so we did not need to tie them. The back pole attached to the back stays with bungees.
We have since gotten a dodger and bimini so we will use this canvas for something else.




 

G.E water filter

We also installed a GE water filter from Home Depot between the pump and the pressure tank (2 1/2 gal).


The water filter has a selector handle so you can bypass the filter if need be.


Have not installed the bracket yet. Works nicely.
You can also see the pressure tank installed by the PO.


Harken Traveler - Old Traveler

2010 - Marina Cortez San Diego, CA 
To show you the condition of our old traveler here are some pictures of it removed.
The pictures do not show how badly the sheaves are broken and they turn very poorly. The wheels on the car are broken and role with a lot of friction. This is a 4 to 1 system and we put on a 6 to 1. Much nicer for sail handling.