Archive | August, 2011

In the water

28 August 2011

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In the water

After a marathon effort by all three of us we finally launched Landfall last week. This is good. It’s really good. The only water intrusion was through one small through-hull seacock. We plan to use it later for our saltwater foot pump for washing dishes but we don’t need to hook all of that up […]

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Fear the Coke Machine

13 August 2011

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I was reading through a page of death and injury statistics a few months ago, something published by a government agency, and I was really surprised by a few things. As a surfer I was particularly interested to see that although surfing looks fairly dangerous the severity of injuries and likelihood of death are similar […]

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It’s Aliiive!

7 August 2011

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Yep, the trusty Perkins diesel started right up. Right after a week of running around looking for plumbing parts and electrical parts and more plumbing parts to hook it all up to the boat and to attach all of it’s various pieces together. Then a weekend of cleaning fuel and treating fuel to no avail […]

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