Category: Projects
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Days 7 – 8 Ruff ‘n’ Tumble Repower: Plans, Cranes, & Automobiles
Day 7 is a mystery but the 8th was a most important day. A circus of logistical bedlam unraveled all day. Highlights follow. PAYMENT FOR NEW ENGINE Many phone calls leads to 1 hour phone call for a wire transfer. The hope was to get a receipt before Janet and Amos arrive in Sidney. That…
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Days 4 – 6 Ruff ‘n’ Tumble Repower: Stagnation to Domination
Many a chore has been accomplished the last few days. We even had time to procrastinate! After many a scrub on day 3, we still had more cleaning to do so day 4 we scrubbed until we had only nubs. It seems the more we clean the more dirty the boat gets. Stuff absolutely everywhere…
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Day 3: Ruff ‘n’ Tumble Repower: Despair and Squalor
Day three’s goal is scrubbin’ and boy oh boy scrubbin’ is what it was, and will be, and will be. The boat is in disrepair, stuff everywhere, everything sticky, no where to walk, no where to hide. We are writing these one day behind so I am currently sitting atop a pile of things writing…
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Day 2: Ruff ‘n’ Tumble Repower: Engine Removed
After our late start dismantling yesterday, today commenced around 11am with the goal of hopefully getting the engine out of the boat and on the deck somewhere. There wasn’t too much left. Essentially the goal is to disconnect everything from the engine so its just sitting there. We had 2 major components left, the coupler…
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Day 1 of a Ruff ‘n’ Tumble Repower
So the story goes we are re powering Karma! We are slapping in a 2GM20F in place of our well used and well loved 2QM. The first funny thing we learned was that what we have is not a 20 HP engine, but an 8 HP. Since we got the boat and was told from…
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Some of The Little Things
As the winter has progressed we have been focusing on the big stuff, the solar arch, the autopilots and the like. This is all great, but there are also tons of small, incremental changes/updates/additions which have been coming together to make Karma feel like she’s really shaping up to be ready for an early May…
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Heat a la Diesel!
This project has been a headache and extremely slow moving for being a project which was at the top of the to-do list as we pulled into our winter home here at Friday Harbor. I am happy to report I am sitting down below typing this in a dry and rather warm cabin, but the…
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Synthetic Lifelines
Lifelines, or as they should maybe be called, Lines of Last Resort, are one of those things which every sailboat has but you never notice. That is until you take them off, which is what we did upon pulling up to our winter home here in Friday Harbor. Our lifelines are likely the originals that…
Sailing Vessel Karma 