The Boat Notebook

A page to keep track of all sorts of interesting boat information to help us in our preparation to go cruising. See our main blog The Retirement Project link in the menu bar.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Nightmare in the marine industry

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We bought a reputable boat (Tartan) from a reputable dealer, that had been maintained by a reputable boat yard. We had a reputable survey do...

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Water works

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I started changing the potable water lines in the boat this weekend. It is one of several jobs in the works. Just a review: Ongoing V-driv...

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Chicago Boat Show boat thoughts

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This year's Chicago Strictly Sail show was the first one Deb and I attended were we weren't looking for "The Boat". We fou...

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Winterize

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Kintala will stay in the water this winter. We couldn't pull her if we wanted. Not only is the only travel lift big enough to lift her a...

Monday, November 28, 2011

Catching up

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I don't post here very often, most of the stuff ends up on The Retirement Project. But Kintala has turned into a maintenance boat, so th...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

From choosing to chosen

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This blog was started to be the place where we discussed much more technical matters regarding our search for the perfect retirement boat an...

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Mono-hull after all?

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After two open water trips on monohulls, we had pretty much decided a catamaran was the boat in our live-aboard future. Then we went to the ...

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