what’s that smell?
Christiana Over the course of two days, we randomly smelled something. Mark finally identified it as melting plastic. We started combing through the section of the boat where the smell ever…
Sailboat Mechanics
the windlass
post began on 5 July 2021 As you may recall, we learned about the windlass–the mechanical device that pulls up, and sometimes lowers the anchor–in a hard lesson that involved…
before and after* anchor locker
Mark’s text read: this is what delaminated plywood looks like. Reminder: the windlass died while we were struggling with air in fuel lines; it pulls the anchor up from the…
going up + lesson learned
A sailboat neighbor, G, offered to head up the mast for us today. We don’t have a bosun’s chair (the thing the person going up sits in as they go…
What’s in the v-berth?
We’ve lived on our Endeavour 42 (E42) for five days. Slowly, things are finding spots–at least their first spots. We know the concept of what is needed on SV Mach…