Monthly Archives: April 2010

Butt Naked

By B.J. | Published April 29, 2010

“Look ma, no paint” Boy does Evenstar’s bottom look right nekkid about now.  The soda blasting is done and she’s pretty stripped.  Though, as always, it wasn’t 100% smooth.  A couple of gotchas on this job that we are sorting out. The first is the whole “layer of fine white Read On..

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Hold Music…

By B.J. | Published April 23, 2010

So I show up at the yard today with some more Furuno boxes, whistling a happy tune and thinking maybe I can screw something down on the boat instead of ripping something out for a change. Did I mention the window leaks?  The ones that drip right on my wife’s Read On..

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I’ve got music at least…

By B.J. | Published April 17, 2010

And I’ve got that going for me, which is nice. So I figured I’d do my first “putting new stuff in” on something REALLY easy.  Take a swing at a softball, grab the low hanging fruit and all that to get my confidence up. What can be easier than a Read On..

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Ripped!

By B.J. | Published April 16, 2010

No, unfortunately I am not talking about my abs or my pecs.  Rather I am talking about the state of affairs on board Evenstar. The electronics installation has finally commenced; better late than never.  Delayed several weeks by (planned) vacations, (unplanned) floods and (unplanned) children’s illnesses I’ve final started in Read On..

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Soda Blast!

By B.J. | Published April 2, 2010

Sounds like a cool experiment on MythBusters, no?  Kari Byron with a red umbrella in FHM…you know what I’m talking about. Well, no, not exactly in this case.  Not when the bottom paint is falling off in chunks. Not very large chunks, but there some patches the size of my Read On..

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