Boat Projects 2023 Planned upgrades/work With our plans to put the boat into the marina in late summer 2023 I have started working on the boat a little at a time to get ready.
Sailing A Nearly Ruined Sail Day June 19th 2021 We needed to head to the boat to clean it up for pulling it out of the marina the next day, so we decided why not do it during a sail. We got to the boat early and began to clear off the spiders. In only two
Sailing The Kids Finally Enjoy Sailing June 5th 2021 My kids have been sailing with us a hand full of times. They have tolerated it, but never truly enjoyed it. The trip a week earlier I could tell the started to finally come around. Today everything changed with them, they finally were excited to go and
Sailing A Birthday Sail May 31st 2021 Today was my youngest 3rd birthday, we had his party yesterday. The weather was great today so we decided to take the kids out for a sail to Eardley Spit. It was an easy sail, and the kids finally had a great time this trip. We swam
Key Lime Sailing Trip 2021 Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages (Day 6) Day 6 (April 27th 2020): Sadly we had to pack our bags and head home. We loaded the car, took one last time to say bye the the guests handing around the tiki hut and headed down the keys. Our flight wasn't until later in the afternoon, so we had
Key Lime Sailing Trip 2021 Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages (Day 5) Day 5 (April 26th 2020): We got up early today, ate a quick breakfast and headed out. The cottages have a bunch of kayaks that you can take out on a first come first serve basis. Being larger people we wanted to test a few out to see what worked
Key Lime Sailing Trip 2021 Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages (Day 2) Day 2 (April 23rd 2020): We were not really comfortable with the winds today. We would have been fine, but at 17 mph it would be higher winds than I have ever sailed in. Really we were prepared for this though. Just to the north of Key Largo are two
Key Lime Sailing Trip 2021 Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages (Day 0 & 1) The day we scheduled out Covid-19 vaccines we decided we needed a vacation once we were fully vaccinated. Nikki asked me were and it didn't take me long to think of Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages . The resort had been suggested on the Catalina 22 forums several times in
Sailing Marina Update #1 In a previous post Marina Troubles I discussed the shrinking Great Salt Lake and the fact that all of the boats need to be pulled from the lake. More and more emails have been going out about pulling boats as the spring is looking worse and worse for lake levels
Sailing First Spring Sail 2021 (mildly NSFW) With our marina's days being numbered we decided to head out for our first sail of spring. I have time off I need to burn, so we decided to head out sailing on Friday April 2nd. This was the first time we had been out since the weather turned warmer.
Sailing Marina Troubles We sail on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Which is an amazing place to sail, and we really love most aspects of it. Except for the spiders and flies really, everything else is great. There could be more places to go, as there is one usable marina on the
Sailing First Winter Sail Nov. 27th 2020 We have our boat in a very unique lake. With a 30% Salinity, the water rarely freezes, allowing us to sail year around. The day after Thanksgiving we were able to do just that. We got to the marina about 1230 and left the slip about 1. By 1:30
Boat Projects Ladder Down Slowly! One of the first project after we first took the boat out was to replace the ladder with something a little more useful. It has been one of the most used things on the boat. Odin came with a three step collapsible ladder. The top of the ladder connected into
Boat Projects Keel Cable Failure Probably Cause and Solution (Keel Cable System and Repair) <– Lifting the keel while in the water After retrieving both ends of the keel cable, we were able to look at them and try to determine what caused the cable to fail. Some ideas came from details when I ordered the new cable. After looking at the two pieces, I
Boat Projects Raising our Keel and Repairing the Cable (Keel Cable System and Repair) <–Methods of lifting the keel with boat in the water After our keel cable broke while in the marina, we ordered a new one and waited a month for it to finally arrive. We still didn't know how it broke, but we knew we needed to replace it. The entire
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
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.
