Boat Projects Raising the Keel in the Water (Keel Cable System and Repair) Catalina 22 Keel System and manually raising
Sailing Featured Our Keel Cable Snapped! (Keel Cable System and Repair) We got two baby sitters lined up for our two-year old to cover us until after dark and headed down to the boat. Work and weather had kept us off the boat for a few weeks, so were a little worried about spiders having invaded our boat (link to spider
Programming Adding Amazon Affiliate Native Shopping ads to Ghost Blogs This blog uses the Ghost blog content management system. I have been fairly happy with it so far, but I had a bit of a struggle to get Amazon affiliate native shopping ads to work correctly. Copying and pasting the code into an HTML block, Markdown block, or directly onto
Boat Projects Dirty Bottom Problems Odin's keel was in good shape when we purchased it. Even though it had been in the ocean, it had definitely been power washed. There were several places the boat had run aground, but not enough to do any damage. Forward had a bit of ablative paint left on the
Boat Projects We bought a sailboat! In May 2008, we purchased our first sailboat—a 1980 Catalina 22. It was in rough shape, filled with water, and needed a lot of work, including re-coring the deck and some extensive fiberglass work.