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.

Monday, January 4, 2021

Teak Sole Refinishing

I keep being asked for details on my sole refinishing project, so here is a collection of posts that I did on the subject. If you have any ...

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Port Rebuild / Headliner Replacement

As all boat projects are wont to do, one project morphs into many. I began to rebed the one leaking port which led to finding that the teak...

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...

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