The story of a windlass handle
A few month back we received our dream windlass from http://www.deepblueengineering.co.uk/ ( Is there such thing as “dream windlass” ? – sure is for us! ) Playing around with our …
Engine and systems
The transmissions turn to board the ship
The cold temperature impeded this weekend’s productivity but we did get the transmission on the engine, one step forward. First chore, clear some snow. We are definitely into winter …
The engine flies into the boat
The engine is finally in the boat. It has not reached its final destination yet but its up and in the boat. In itself this was a pretty straight …
The windlass has arrived!!
When we started planning this boat, a classic and rugged looking manual windlass was clearly part of the big picture. We quickly found out that it wasn’t going to …
Tough summer for a welder
The tin can is shaping up, starting to see an engine room shape up. I need to get her done…. just ignore the heat… When the temprature approaches 40 …
What are we up to now?
The latest big deal was the purchase of our engine: a Perkins Sabre M92B. We had been looking at Beta Marine also but this engine came up as the …
An Engine!
Shipped from the East coast, our engine arrived to Montreal where I had to go pick it up. I did not look forward to this trip through the city… …
