So I’m going to travel via boat for a week….
Author: luken7
An avid and passionate sailor, drummer and technologist. My career focuses around computing and storage technologies. My passion is sailing and playing drums. I love music, especially progressive jazz and rock.
Rainy Weekend? Obsessively Clean of Course
Next visit, finish wiping down the cherrywood and wash out hte bildge.
Raymarine Axiom Upgrade
Been waiting a couple of months for the latest Axiom software upgrade. Full autopilot integration and remote management with the RayControl and RayView IOS apps.
Hemispheres Launch Videos
13 Days of Boatless Despair
Hemispheres has been on the hard for 13 days, getting the hull waxed and bottom painted. Hopefully the bottom will be fine for two years. Used the SeaHawk Cukote Semi-hard, self-polishing ablative finish in Teal.
…And happly back home in River Dunes
This Place…
There’s this beach……
That has this pier…..
That has this bar at the end of it…..
That serves Frozen PainKillers…..
That’s all…..
Hemispheres on the Hard
Well it’s been about two years since the last haulout, bottom needs some work and we’re trying to figure out this paint bonding issue. Usually in the same spots, paint is just not adhering all the time, driving me nuts.
One thing about moving to RD is that it’s a longer trip to the boatyard. A little over an hour but who’s counting when it’s a beautiful day on the water.
Then theres the castiron keel. Once saltwater finds its way into the pourous iron, it starts corroding, from the inside. I was told though that I’l lbe long dead before the keel eats through. Estimating it has another 40 years on it.
So this week the bottom will get prepped, two coats of hard ablative, hull wax, prop treatment, dilithium crystals refreshed, antimatter containment field calibrated and touch up those plasme blasts on the armour. Hopefully have her splashed this Friday afternoon or Saturday morning.
Everything is Big in Texas
This is officially the larges gas station I’ve ever been to. halfway between San Antonio and Austin, had to be at least 50 pumps. The conviencne store was just as large, the size of grocery store. Couldn’t leave empty handed and will a window full of beef jerky sold by the pound, had to get some.
Note, when you pack Sweet and Spicey BBQ Beef Jerky into your baggage for a flight, your baggage will smell like Sweet and Spicey BBQ Beef Jerky when you get home.
Made the move to River Dunes
After years and years of checking it out, I finally took the plunge and moved down, or up? the river to River Dunes Marina this past April. The six yers at Pecan Grove Marina were good, loved my fellow sailmates and friends there though it was time to look at other places.
I’ve always liek the floating docs at RD and the deeper channel to get in and out, though it’s a longer motor before raising sails. Correction, I now raise the main while in the harbor to the second reef and head out. The facilities are great and having some friends move up with me was awesome too.
Chaps for the Dingy
Thanks to Zoey Zalata (coolest name ever) for such an expert job on adding chaps to my AB dingy. If you need anyting done in the Oriental area and beyond for inflatible boats, @OffshoreRafting is the place to go. Love it.
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