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True about the cleaning...
My recent observations regarding work are that work creates more work. I decided to attempt to replace the cutlass bearing this spring. Gotta pull the prop to get the shaft out, gotta pull the coupler to remove shaft, gotta replaced the packing in the packing gland, heck, while I'm in there, I may as well replace the shaft log hose...etc. etc.
My recent observations regarding work are that work creates more work. I decided to attempt to replace the cutlass bearing this spring. Gotta pull the prop to get the shaft out, gotta pull the coupler to remove shaft, gotta replaced the packing in the packing gland, heck, while I'm in there, I may as well replace the shaft log hose...etc. etc.
Simple boat projects rarely are as simple as we think they are... 
How often has the 30 minute project expanded to take three days...
How often has the 30 minute project expanded to take three days...
Electrical projects seem to have that same outcome. I went to put a new terminal on a wire at the main panel, and ended up tracing and pulling out 50 feet of wire that led to no where. Eventually, the wiring that I pulled all came back to the panel. It was a big loop! I bet the wiring guy at Hunter Marine is still laughing his ass off.
Yeah.. the way I see it is that a boat is a couple of nice looking semi-permeable membranes that it is our jobs to maintain!.. The lower one keeps most of the seawater out and the upper one keeps at bay the rain (mostly) and solids like leaves, pine needles, and pollen and seeds. Lots of times in caring for those essential parts, we’ll find chinks that need attention. If we are lucky, we’ll not find them when at sea!
My goal has always been
to get things on board working properly so all I have to do is clean it and sail it. It took one year on our C22. It took four years on our C25. It took eight years on our C34. Do we see a pattern here?
higgs, you just burst my bubble!
to get things on board working properly so all I have to do is clean it and sail it. It took one year on our C22. It took four years on our C25. It took eight years on our C34. Do we see a pattern here?
higgs, you just burst my bubble!
Bigger the boat, longer it takes to do that.. .
to get things on board working properly so all I have to do is clean it and sail it. It took one year on our C22. It took four years on our C25. It took eight years on our C34. Do we see a pattern here?
higgs, you just burst my bubble!
Sounds just like my weekend:
1. Clean the cockpit.
2. Wax part of the topsides.
3. Climb back into cockpit to grab some rags, dirty shoes leave tracks.
4. Clean the tracks off and wax somemore.
5. Cliimb back into cockpit to grab some lunch.
6. Clean the footprints off the cockpit floor.
7. Wax some more.
8. Climb back aboard to prep water tank.
9. Clean footprints from prepping water tank and draining faucets in cabin.
10. Repeat the above.:cussing:
1. Clean the cockpit.
2. Wax part of the topsides.
3. Climb back into cockpit to grab some rags, dirty shoes leave tracks.
4. Clean the tracks off and wax somemore.
5. Cliimb back into cockpit to grab some lunch.
6. Clean the footprints off the cockpit floor.
7. Wax some more.
8. Climb back aboard to prep water tank.
9. Clean footprints from prepping water tank and draining faucets in cabin.
10. Repeat the above.:cussing:
I try to get by with doing less these days. I am making covers for most of my woodwork so I don't have to constantly re-do wood. If it is broken I fix it and fix it the right way so that I don't have to fix it again, for a while. I try to replace major things before they break. I keep up on my maintenance.
Then some new thing comes out and I see the usefulness in it and I have to have it. It then takes time to get that up and running. It is a good thing that I spend a lot of time on the boat and I don't mind working on it.
I will take working on a boat over working on a house. Things just seem more basic and you see improvement much quicker!
Then some new thing comes out and I see the usefulness in it and I have to have it. It then takes time to get that up and running. It is a good thing that I spend a lot of time on the boat and I don't mind working on it.
I will take working on a boat over working on a house. Things just seem more basic and you see improvement much quicker!
Don't forget that the object of your passion is called "sailboat," not "workboat." Sail first, clean later.
Unfortunately, some work has to be done before you can get to the sailing part... like re-doing the rigging, so you can put the mast back up.
My observation is that any work on a boat no matter how well thought out will require at least three trips to the hardware store before it's finished.
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