Category Archives: hell

Hard Times in New Zealand

By B.J. | Published February 13, 2016

The day I have dreaded for weeks has almost arrived.  Tomorrow at 1:00 in the afternoon we’re pulling Evenstar for a week and putting her on stands on the hard. Hopefully no more than a week. We’re doing this for a few reasons, but mostly because we are getting the Read On..

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The Week of Broken Things

By B.J. | Published February 13, 2014

This is the week we discovered a few more major things were broken and needed to be dealt with. And we also paid the price for not addressing some of these things the second we noticed them, and for not being aggressive enough checking things out before we left. If Read On..

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Progress Report Part 2…the Bottom

By B.J. | Published May 22, 2010

So the bottom was a disaster in slow motion that I simply hadn’t planned or budgeted for.  The original plan was simple:  Slap another coat off Pettit Trinidad Ultima SR on the bottom before launch and splash. And to think I believed I had a problem when Pettit “changed” the Read On..

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Team Teak!!

By B.J. | Published April 7, 2009

The Admiral busy squishing the air out of a seam of caulk. The family that “Teaks” together stays together. I suppose. When we lost all my help for this project, my wife and I decided that I needed all the help I can get. Maybe it was something about me Read On..

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The Mendacity of Hope

By B.J. | Published March 31, 2009

I’d HOPED to be writing about something other than teak by now. That ain’t happening. Because Teak is now my life. So we’re back from vacation and tomorrow the kids go back to school and I restart the Teak Immersion Process, whereby I bury as many daylight hours as I Read On..

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So it wasn’t four hours…

By B.J. | Published February 12, 2009

But I did get over there to work on the Teak a bit today. More tomorrow – it’s actually warm here, I wish we were ready to do some caulking. There are two sorts of grooves in the teak – shallow more ornamental ones, and deep ones that run all Read On..

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Motivation…Calling Matt Foley!

By B.J. | Published February 10, 2009

“If you don’t get all that Teak re-done by May, you might end up spending your whole summer in a VAN, down by the RIVER!” I’m finding it REALLY easy to find things to do that do not involve digging teak caulk out of my deck. The biggest excuse of Read On..

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More About the Hideous Teak

By B.J. | Published January 28, 2009

I am absolutely certain that both of you are the edge of your seats to find out what exactly is happening with the teak decking. At last report, after much research, kvetching, whining, fer-actual bleeding (yes, that chisel really IS sharp), scraping, sanding, and quite a bit more whining I’d Read On..

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Look Ma! No Rudder!

By B.J. | Published April 24, 2008

One must take some amusement as this ghastly cutlass bearing project careens out of control. If nothing else, you can REALLY see where the Swedes build a really big, tough boat. This is a picture of where the rudder used to be. No, that’s not the rudder – it’s just Read On..

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It Never Ends…

By B.J. | Published April 23, 2008

The little joys of boat ownership are without number. I really DO love boats and owning them, but every now and then something happens that makes you shake your head and wonder just what we are thinking. This time it is Swedish engineering. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the Read On..

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