Anchor locker LED lights light up! - 2010

September 2010 - Marina Kona Kai Shelter Island San Diego, CA

Here are some pictures of the anchor locker that we took at knight. They are of the West Marine 8-LED White/Red Dome Light and with the same LED lights in red.

Hatch pickup from R.W. Little - 2010

September 2010 - At Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CAR.W. Little called and the hatch was ready from paint. I went and picked it up but there were too many holidays in the paint so I told them to fix it. I paid for it and took the hardware. This will require another trip.

Blue Sea System 600 amp buss install for neg - 2010

The two Blue Sea Systems 250 amp busses we ordered came in. 

 I put in place one Blue Sea Systems 600 amp buss for the negative side to see where we were going to mount it. It is a bit of engineering. We did not want it on the dash panel we are making because it takes up too much room.

Sink area

We are currently varnishing the oak trim on the sink are and the trim around the drawers. We have two drawers done and are also working on the other two at home.


We are prepping the seat the start of the varnishing.

Chain locker door

We finished of the chain locker door and the trim around it. Nice to have the door back on!


I lost some screws so for now it is just on with a couple on the outside and a couple on the inside hinges and latch :)

Oak trim

Got some more teak and oak varnished. When we bought the boat we did not know that teak and oak trim was an option when they were made. I have read in the forum where a person did not want any oak in the boat as they liked all teak. We did not even notice the oak when we bought the boat. I would and my wife say that you may want to re-consider the oak as we find it most pleasing. It brightens up the boat a lot and adds a nice contrast to the teak.  It would not be a deal breaker either way but I think we would chose the oak trim if we were purchasing the boat new from what we see now.

 Here is some oak trim we just finished varnishing

New furler cleat

We installed our first of three new cleats this Saturday. The SS cleat looks so nice. It is actually easier to use as the line just slides around it instead of catching on the corrosion etc.
Actually we want to get two for the stays as well making it seven new cleats.

Teak insert

We had a piece of teak made to cover the two spots on the bulhead.

This shows where the old light was and the teak had been oiled before by the PO. It is very doubt full we could match it and seeing as we want to cover the whole above the light also we will cover both spots at the same time. Then mount a fan there.

We do and or did not like the light so it is a good opportunity to remove it also.

We then channeled the bulkhead out using a drummel tool and the wires fit in nicely. This was easier than I thought it was going to be as the wires had enough slack to ,move them out of the way. They are not accessible inside the teak trim so if the get damaged it could be a real problem.

The teak insert is only a ¼ inch thick so the channeling could not be done there. The reason is that the one piece of molding coming of the top of the door to the headliner is not very thick. The rest of the molding is thicker. Any way it looks good.

The piece of teak that we had made fits the space really good, after some sanding. It took some sanding with 80 grit paper to get the teak to fit.

We then drilled a hole through for the wires.


It is a bit crooked at the bottom so I will sand the bottom to be straight across.


We then will teak oil it to try to match it with the surrounding teak,


Then clean the teak in that area and vanish it.

Made by:

C.S. Ferguson (Shane)

Custome Woodworking

1095 Scot Street

San Diego Ca

Shop 619 224 7544

M 619 884 6474

Replacement Hella lights

We received the new Hella replacement LED running lights.


Now when to install them. Looks like it will be couple of weeks as we are going anchoring this weekend and we do not work while at anchor. No projects get worked on. Just relaxing.

Sailing 092610

Joe and I went out sailing on Sunday. There was not any wind until we got to the end of the Point Loma. We motor sailed till then. We then pulled the jib out as the main was already up. The wind picked up to about 18 knots. It was surprising as it was forecast for light winds typically 10 knots and less. It settled in at about 12-14 knots for the remainder of the day. The swell was about 3 feet, nice calm sea. We sailed out past the outer buoy to San Diego Harbor and beyond. Sailed for a couple hours had some lunch and then sailed back. At one point we had jackets on. The water temperature is about 61 to 68 and the wind coming off the water cools you right off.
We are getting a record heat wave so the nice cool sail was great!

We left at about 11:30 am and returned about 5:00 pm.

The pictures are of Joe at the helm and I getting ready to raise the main as we slowly motored to windward. A friend of Debbie’s’ and mine came by in a motor boat and snapped some pictures.

My wife Debbie was in a nearby restaurant with her sister and our daughter and some girl friends celebrating her sisters 50th birthday. They also got a few photos but were at a much greater distance away. Small San Diego world at times.

It’s the bird shit!

It’s the birds! Those dam black birds. The dam things are taking up too much of my time! They are making a mess of the boat and there seems there is nothing I can do that stops them. After just a couple of days this is how our boat looks. I tried to cover as much as I can but still make it not too much work covering and uncovering.

At least they are seasonal, they like the cooler weather so this year they are back early Wa Wa.

 The beige canvas I had just put down when I arrived at the boat. A few hours later they had already shit on it. The deck was not covered before and the stain, that red stain from their shit is way hard to get off. Dam birds.

Bow anchor locker and chain locker almost finished - 2010

September 2010 - At Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CA

We finally almost finished off the anchor locker and chain locker.

Bed lights in statroom - cabinet - 2010

Under the storage cabinet in the bed are there was a florescent light.

 The storage cabinet has the dorad vent pipe that flows to the bilge. I think when you put the blower on it sucks air in from the dorads. 

Bomar stateroom hatch parts to RW Little for marine paint - 2010

August 2010 - At Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CA

Monday I cleaned the two hatch pieces. I used a wire brush and a knife.

New main sheet block

We purchased our first of four Harken Big Boat bocks 6058 and it is way nicer than the 30 year old Shaffer blocks that are on there. It is not Shaffer’s fault and they make fine blocks but 30 years in the weather, well. We purched this one from Sailing Supply.

The old Shaffer

The new Harken

Main sheet turning block

We are trying to replace this block on the deck. It is part of the main sheet block system. I am hoping I can drill out the pin and attach another block. Dave at Sailing Supply is looking at some pictures I sent him to see if this can be done.

Anchor locker latch

 Debbie and I got the new anchor locker latch installed. Debbie crawled up inside (way up) into the chain locker and put on the flat washers, the lock washer then the nuts and I sat up top and screwed them in. We had to use some vice grips to hold the nuts. Looks nice and now works. Debbie staked down the nuts with some silicone.
Picture shows it un-latched.

Replacing jib & furler cleats

So the cleats that are for the winches are awful. They are corded and look real bad. They are of questionable strength. They are or were black and mounted on teak pads\blocks. The setup is nice and works well.

Furler cleat

Furler cleat

We took them off.

The teak blocks have been varnished badly. I think this was done by brokers staff when the boat went up for sail. They need to be striped and re-varnished.

We now also want to replace the cleats. I would prefer SS at this point but am not sure if they can be found that match up.

So now to find some bolt hole patters that are as close as possible to the old ones.

We also removed the furler cleat which is just screwed to the gunnel. It is not a load bearing cleat and I have seen one on the web in SS. Can not find a picture of it our onld one befor we removed it.

As far as I know once you have sheeted in you keep a few wraps on the winch and tie off to the cleat. This keeps the winch from bearing the load of the sail, especially high up on the winch. Winches were not made to be for holding spring lines etc.