Category Maintenance
We want to be able to keep better track of the power going in and out of our batteries when we are out cruising and heard good things about the Victron Smart Battery Monitor BMV-712. Other than running the wire… Continue Reading →
A fellow CS34 owner, Philip Maeise, has shared this information on repairing the base of his mast. Hopefully you will never need to do this, but it’s interesting to see the construction.
Our first DIY sail repair At the end of last season, we noticed a tear on the leech of our foresail. Come Spring, we found two more. We think our sails are 30 years old, so this is understandable. We… Continue Reading →
Foggy has been launched! Probably the most prepared we’ve ever been but it involved a lot of trips back and forth and made a few mistakes along the way.
We currently use portable batteries for charging our phones but with solar being installed I wanted to have easier access to power. Here’s an easy project to add some USB power to the v-birth.
With Lori’s wacky schedule these days she got a day off while I had to work so she headed back to the boat to work on some projects.
Today it was all hands on deck. We convinced our kids to join us for the day to help knock off a bunch of tasks from our to do list.
Lori had to work and I wasn’t feeling all that great for some reason. I was suspicious of the empty bottle of Canadian Whiskey in our kitchen.
Back to the boat to finish the bottom paint and patch up a few nicks and scratches in the gelcoat.
We still don’t know if Lori can get vacation but we’ve decided to start prepping the boat anyways. It was a beautiful weekend and we both find it easy to spend full days working on the boat. It’s refreshing and… Continue Reading →
We can’t easily get to our boat right now so we are prepping a few things at home. One of the tasks is to pull out and clean up our Zodiac. It’s a Zodiac Cadet Fastroller 285. I had access… Continue Reading →
With the current state of things, the boat might stay out of the water for the entire season. I’ve documented some background on what’s happening here with our current thoughts.
Some good news, we are one step closer to having solar on our sailboat! We ordered through Pat Tasse at SunTech Enterprises. He had all the equipment in stock, except the solar panel. He put in the order and we… Continue Reading →
This year is our electrical year and with continued concerns about availability of shore power we’ve decided now is the time to add marine solar to Foggy. This will be an interesting project since we started with zero knowledge about… Continue Reading →
Foggy is doing well surviving the winter on the hard. We didn’t get any crazy cold days this winter but we did get more than usual snowfalls and some stormy windy days. Went out to check and do some measurements… Continue Reading →
The final step in tucking in our CS34 sailboat in for the winter, a nice warm blanket. It took us two trips and made one discovery/mistake along the way.
This year felt much easier than last year, we now have the delusion of knowing what we are doing and we knew Wiggers would take good care of us.
We replaced our lost Bruce Anchor with a brand new 35lb Mantus anchor. We don’t want to lose a second anchor, so we decided to add a Mantus Anchor Mate to help secure our new anchor.
Another project we didn’t want to deal with was added to the list. Our pump out was stopped when we attempted to open our holding tank screw cap. It would not budge. We ended up striping both the cap and… Continue Reading →
It doesn’t look like much. But we saw this on another boat and it’s just the start for us to organize our galley a little bit different.