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It’s been a long road. I originally obtained the teak about 3 years ago. Believe it or not it was reclaimed out of an old barn. Apparently they used teak for the hay loft floor. 1”x5”x20’ boards. I ripped them down to 1-3/4 strips. Built a buck and used stainless (don’t remember the grade...

We have a lewmar 24v bow truster in the boat. When we bought the boat the bow truster did not work. After replacing the block box and the DC-182 dual reversing solenoid it worked again! Fast forward one year and the DC-182 welded itself together again. I blame this failure on myself. Bad...

So last year I had a friend ask me to sell his Aluminum Big Block river runner. It was a little beat up and been in storage for 8 years. I got it cleaned up, services and sold. The PO was not a good people person and prefered not to show the boat, so he cut me in on 20% and it worked for...

I started playing around a bit with some of my sewing equipment.. I take used and abused sail boat sails, cut them up and make stuff out of them. So far I have made wine bags, totes, duffles and am working on a backpack (rev 4 as the first one looked like garbage, the second had no pockets, and...

I have an old Read’s Sailmaker for sale. Does a nice zig zag and straight stitch. Comes with a few extra parts. In very good condition. Comparable to a sailright machine. But does not have a walking foot. I have upgraded to a full size Singer 40 and no longer use this one. $450 OBO Prefer local...

The wife and I are interested in an Alaska fishing lodge trip next summer. Anyone have any tips? Or any places that you have been and liked? Looking to go for 5-7 days, two of us. Mostly interested in Halibut fishing. I hear Homer is a good place as well as Kodiak. But the on-line adds are...

Started work on the new Fastback canvas last night after waiting for the sunbrella to show up. Supply chain issues, Sailright is out of the black 60" until March. Lucky for me I know a few pro's that have a local source and got it! This will be the biggest canvas job I have tried. All in...

Well it was my turn I guess. Traveled almost 600 miles at 20mph this year. The one trip where we were going slower in a group (9knots) and I hit a big stick/small log. Traveling from Everett to Point Hudson. It was about 1pm at Marrowston Point I hit a 8-10" log about 4' long. I never seen...

2015 Kohler 15KW Gen Set. 30 hours on the clock. The PO had this unit installed new, and for the first year it ran great, then he had it serviced by Kohler and it then started this problem 2-3 months later. He always thought it was the undersized sea strainer and feed line as it was 3/4. (has...

Headed up to Fisherman's Bay off of Lopez from Everett in a bit. Traditionally I go up through Deception pass, straight across through middle channel and then up between Lopez/San Juan. The wife thinks we should take a look, and if the weather is nice to do the normal, but if its at all windy...

I started in on the new to us Egg Harbor. The old Varnish was flaking off after years of neglect. I stripped it with a scraper, heat gun. Then hit it with some Eco Teak cleaner that was recommended to me. There are stronger teak cleaners out there, but this stuff did not damage any trim...

We (3 Cousins and I) took the Egg out from Everett to PA, out into the straights, and hit a few banks looking for Halibut. We did land a few, but nothing noteworthy. All in all it was 190 miles and about 420 gallons of fuel, average speed was 18mph. We stayed at Port Angels Wed-Fri and hit up...

Currently I have 10 Crown CR-225 6volt for the house batteries. The mains have a total of 4 8D’s that are separate from all systems. The bow truster and windless have their own set of 2-12v AGM’s. The gen set has one 12v starter battery on its own system. 15k gen set Old appliances, Newer...

We are now in the process of stripping all of the exterior teak on the boat. About 30% of the old Varnish is flat falling off. Some of the areas need to be cleaned before we can move onto the next step. In the past I have use a two part cleaner called TE-KA. It works very well, but do not...

No mine, I know nothing about it. Located in Poulsbo wa. https://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/boa/d/poulsbo-1972-classic-grand-banks-36/7304333318.html

For the wife's B-day she decided we were going to head from Everett to Poulsbo and stay the weekend. We have never been to Poulsbo, and we have never been out for a weekend in the new boat besides a few shake down runs. The trip in was nice and easy, around 10mph for the duration. No problems...

I tried buying some Interlux Varnish this past weekend and all of the Interlux products in the store were blocked off. One of the kids said that Interlux was in trouble with the EPA or State but he was not sure why. Anyone have any info? I need more Varnish !

Currently we have a Bruce Claw on the bow of the 48' with 300' of chain. On our last boat (33') we had a nice Danforth 22lb? on the bow with 100' of chain and 200' or rode but we also used a 13bl Danforth with 15' of chain 100' of rode on the aft in a few spots to keep from spinning when it got...

Anyone have any info on Planar Diesel heaters? They look to be a better option than the China made ones. And a little less than a Webasto. https://planarheaters.com/ I am only finding one dealer in Smokey Point WA. for the Planar. It may be time to change out our old Webasto for something...

We have started the interior update. Top picture is new, the bottom pictures is what it looked like when we got it. Took out the 4 different kinds of carpet hull liner and scraped out all the glue. Then added some new gray marine hull liner with an added 1/4 sewfoam backing for more padding...

With the current trend of boats selling like hot cakes... With inflation on its current trend and deprecation being what it is. Where do you see the cost of a million dollar boat in 15 years if said boat is in fair condition? Lets pick one of my favorites just for fun.. as its one I would like...

I am having trouble finding a 1-1/4 stainless rail mount burgee flagstaff. We have seen the ones with the plastic mount on the bottom, but they never stay put. I would like the all stainless clamp style, anyone know of a source? The largest size I have found is 7/8. RonR

https://seattleboatshow.com/ $24 Off Captain Registration Promo Code 24OFFCAPTAIN Cant wait to watch all the fishing stuff on Tuna and a few info classes on Navionics.

After a few post from others on wallpaper and what not... we are now in the process of stripping the wallpaper in each head. Pick off the vinyl cover, steam off the rest of the paper. Funny thing is, all of the walls are teak! And we started stripping the monstrosity of carpets off the hull...

The boat has a lot of eisenglass on the fly bridge. The side piece are ok, the front is not very clear. I have tried the 3m Plastic polish, the starbrite clear plastic polish and even Flitz polish. By hand, and even with a orbital buffer. While it made a very small improvement, it’s just not...