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.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Cape Horn Self Steering Vane

Deb and I had long debates over the best way to provide some kind of auto-steering for Kintala . As a long time commercial pilot I had visi...

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Dodger

The dodger project was one of the most complicated ones we undertook. Tim did the metal framing and mounting to the boat and helped to des...

Aft Cabin Workshop

We converted the single starboard side berth into a workshop to store the many spare parts and tools that we would need full-time cruising...

Bulkhead Table Project

Kintala came with a centerline fixed table. We removed this table and converted it to a stowable bulkhead table. Here is a summary of the...

Nav Seat / Storage Bench

We removed the pedestal nav seat (which was hideous) and replaced it with a storage bench that would store all the bakeware that was curre...

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Projects

We've decided to use this portion of the site to detail the involved level projects that people keep asking us about. There will be vari...

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Nightmare in the marine industry

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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