Walker Island

A picture from my Walker Island vist on Sept 2, 2019

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Closing up for a week.

Time to head back to Brookings where my trusty MacGregor awaits her new owner. I really did not want to sell her but as she is a great Baja boat, just painfully to haul 2000 miles down and 2000 miles back. I need to find a boat I can leave in Baja and the buyer […]

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Soft shackles and digital freezer thermostat

I’m a board Estrella on a hot afternoon at her slip in Rocky Pointe Marina. Today I made two soft shackles as a going away present for Festina Lente. My temporary installation of a digital thermostat to control the freezer seems to be working. Other freezer issues include replacing the refrigerant pipe insulation near the […]

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Renaming Libations

Estrella was officially (on request to Poseidon for his consideration) renamed on June 11 at 6:10PM PDT. We had a number of guests to help with and witness that all proper considerations to Poseidon and his brothers of the wind were completed in a boisterous manner. Estrella was decked out in glitter on her newly […]

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On the Dry

Estrella needed some bottom work. Lead keel boot was blistering bad, bottom paint had some flaking, dings in the prop, dock rash on port side rear quarter (bad), sea-cocks needed lube and the hull needed buffing and waxing. Finally have all that work done. Not cheap but happy with the results.

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Sails are UP

I’ve finally got the rig tuned, the running rigging run and all sails in position. To bad I’m pulling her out of the water to get some bottom work done and dock rash (from PO) fixed.

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