August 13, 2025
Talk about a cheap chartplotter; Samsung Galaxy 11 inch tablet for $160, OpenCPN for $9.95. charts from The Chart Locker for $25. All in for under two hundred bucks, resulting in charts of the area I cruise along with satellite images (left off ArcGIS since it matched Bing). What a bargain! OpenCPN for Android can be downloaded from the GooglePlay…
August 9, 2025
1. Wash boat with Adam’s Polishes Strip Car Wash Soap – Use Foam Sprayer (120 ml of strip wash to 13 liters of water (16 ounce bottle = about four buckets of wash)) to coat a section of the boat. Use the two bucket method (see below) to clean the section. Repeat for the entire boat. Instructions: Link 2. Remove…
August 3, 2025
All Seawind 1160 sailboats end up having issues with the black pain that surrounds the windows cracking and becoming dull over the years. My friends Carl and Roxy (SV Sky Pond) had 3M Deep Matte Black Wrap Film Series 2080 applied when they hauled their boat at Boat Works in Brisbane and were extremely impressed with the appearance. Allan and…