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Looks good Chris, it’s cleaned up nicely and looks like a pretty straight forward repair.

I’ve got hydraulic steering on Amazon, the pump is manual and spun by the wheel. It works well. But judging by the lines, my boat probably weighs twice as much in the same 27’ footprint.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I felt like I had run out of interesting boat things to post and the energy to post them. I know that has definitely slowed down (read stopped) my posting upstairs.

EVs are definitely becoming more popular in our town, and they make a lot of sense here. We bought our first ev last weekend. There were six of them at the little corner car dealer, ranging from a...

Meeting with your ship wright sounds like a good idea. The structure of the pilot house doesn’t look that bad really, unlike the aft cabin. Is it too much to hope that that’s the weather side?

You might be able to get away with leaving the cabin top intact and just work from the side to fix your beam shelf. But I think you’re at the point of reglassing the cabin top either way. Now that it...

Moving the tent like that actually worked pretty well. I called the boat mover yesterday to see when I could get Amazon hauled out and he said, “how about this afternoon?” So, that’s what we did.
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Pondering how best to move our boat tent, I hit on the idea of getting some big casters and putting the whole thing on wheels. One of my friends here in town was pretty sure that was a plan sure to...

One of the projects I have been procrastinating on all summer is moving the boat tent to make it easier to get Amazon in and out of it. Well, it’s fall now and that can be put off no longer. The old...

It’s funny how things seem to linger on the internet. I actually have the survey that goes with that photo in the ad.

Ive been trying to decide when to call it a season, but I can seem to make up...

Hot spots and remote connections can be a wonderful thing. Being in a meeting is so much nicer when you can attend from the boat.:)

I wouldn’t mind taking Amazon to the Wooden Boat Festival one...

Beautiful! Congratulations

On the pus side, the new fridge looks great! I’d say go cruising, that little dimple will keep til later. :)

It’s a diesel tank Rich, it’s a day tank because that’s about all the fuel it holds and usually they are plumbed into the main fuel tank with a pump so that it can be easily refueled with the day’s...

That’s why it’s slow incremental progress Mike. :)

That particular wire run is going to be relocated now that it is easy to get into that corner, instead of going across the middle where the hooks...

I made some slow incremental progress today on a detail I’ve been thinking about for a while. The day tank for the cook stove has always struck me as a bit of an eyesore.

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nothing really...

Nice score on the dinghy Chris.

You’re way neater out of the gate than I am Ron. Looks good!

I didn’t know that, that’s interesting. Thanks for sharing.

That was a nice surprise, I had completely missed that until I went looking for the email. Thanks Tracey!

Thanks Chris, I hope you and your family are out enjoying summer on the water!

Once again ready for the water.

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and even in the water.

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And the catches us up.
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After the deck edge was trimmed up a layer of dynel finished it off.

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And a couple coats of paint to pretty it up.

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Then we left town for a couple weeks, which stopped our...

Thanks guys! Ned, you have me wondering about just how many trips we’ve taken now. I’ll have to go count them out from our log book. It might be kind of fun to know.

They have grown right up Gareth.

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I’m glad to hear that Bill, knowing that folks are getting some enjoyment from this rather long saga helps me keep the motivation to carry on the story.

The old ply and glass stopped right at the edge of the cabin top, which seems like a good way encourage water intrusion. This time I let the ply over hang the cabin so that I could add a drip rail...

Hi everyone, I hope your summers, or winters are off to a good start. It’s been busy here, we got Amazon in the water yesterday the bilge pump down to only cycling every twenty four minutes or so...

Very nice Ned!

I think I’m about four weeks out, which is later than I’d like, but I can live with it. The cabin top is a necessity but replacing those cubbies with something that actually works well is the project...

There are couple projects that need doing Ned. :)

one on the outside.
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and one on the inside.
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That’s a lot of corners Ned! I just started to get serious about my pre launch projects today too and I’m kind of wondering what the heck I was thinking! :)

Thanks Dave. Our compass is a box compass.

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old school enough?

Could be you’re right Gareth. The button I got didn’t make a difference. I think there is a bit on electronics in the switch module that is needed to make it all work. So I gave up on eliminating the...

Hi Ned and Garrett, good to to see you guys!

That’s a lovely dash Ned.

My new switch will be here Saturday, so we’ll know soon enough Garrett.

That’s a neat bit of work mating those chunks of lead together. Nice job!

Thanks guys! Those clusters look good Martin. Everyone is good here Hugh, just pining away for spring! :)

Part of what I want to do with this project is replace the power, start, and stop buttons with a key switch and buttons more in keeping with the boat. This is turning out to be a little more...

Hi Hugh! I’ve gone a slightly more conservative route.

Many unnecessary holes later,

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and a lot of filing later, the gauges fit pretty good.

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Hi everyone, I hope you all are doing well. I’ve been working on a little gauge project and thought it might be fun to share it here.

So here is the rough and ready gauge installation I did when I...

I’m actually thinking about putting doors on it once the rest of the top is up Chris. It’s definitely a step up from prior iterations.

Hi everyone, it’s been a while. After leaving Amazon in the harbor over the winter last year, I decided that it would be better for the boat to be hauled out instead of repeating that again this...

I can relate to that affliction. :)

We’re hogging all the cold, wet, and windy weather up here Chris. This was the end the season week up here too. Amazon is on stands next to the house as of Monday and I’ll be building a new shelter...

It looks pretty good really. It’s probably a good thing that it’s in your town and not mine. :)

Yay, nice to see that things are back on track!

When my dad first saw it he said, oh good you went with traditional colors.

His dad went with red and yellow on the kids dingy too. Don’t want to lose track of them. :)

We swapped out dinghies on Amazon today.

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I think that’s going to work just fine.

A boat where they didn’t figure out how to extend the stem past the plank ends.

That boat was tied up across from Amazon when they stopped in Juneau. I didn’t realize they ran up all the way from Seattle on solar power, that’s pretty cool. It’s a neat boat, it’s pretty small...