MarAzul getting a face lift and a few corrections.

[MarAzul]

She is in the yard in Winchester Bay. Four weeks now and about half done refinishing the hull.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Why are you refinishing the hull?

 

[MarAzul]

Why are you refinishing the hull?

Because it was fugly. The original finish was a mistake. I let System Three talk me in to using their linear Poly over their clear epoxy. Their clear epoxy is great but the linear poly didn't hold up, not enough UV protection for the epoxy and then it started coming off in large flakes at sea.

So I am stripping it and refinishing using the best quality Marine Spar I can buy.

Hell of a job but it is look much better, closer to art work again.

 

[Minstrel]

Damn, you built that yourself? That's incredible. I knew you were working on a boat, but I didn't realize it was that big.

 

[MarAzul]

I knew you were working on a boat

I see you are a User Interface Designer. The Computer Navigation system onboard might be of interest to you. Integrated Navigation and Communications,
computer control ham radio with world wide email capability, weather satellite tracking, real time AIS overlay on current navigation charts, current tide data anywhere world wide. I kind a like the click the place on the chart where you want to go, hit the accept and the auto pilot and that's where you are going. All for about 5 amps 12v power.

 

[Further]

What an amazing feeling it must have been the first time you set sail on that boat after spending so much time and attention building it. It really is a thing of beauty.

 

[Minstrel]

I see you are a User Interface Designer. The Computer Navigation system onboard might be of interest to you. Integrated Navigation and Communications,
computer control ham radio with world wide email capability, weather satellite tracking, real time AIS overlay on current navigation charts, current tide data anywhere world wide. I kind a like the click the place on the chart where you want to go, hit the accept and the auto pilot and that's where you are going. All for about 5 amps 12v power.

That really does sound neat.

 

[MarAzul]

What an amazing feeling it must have been the first time you set sail on that boat after spending so much time and attention building it. It really is a thing of beauty.

Ha! Actually that was bad friggin day. Sailed for about 1.5 hours and the wind just stopped. Fired up the iron sail and off again, err for about 7 or 8 hours, then the engine died. I had pumped all the fuel out of the tank into the bilge storage tank. Just a little over-site in the plumbing. Then I found out that the fuel pump would not pump out of the bilge tank, too low, would not lift that far. But it took me a few hours to figure that out laying in my bunk out at sea in the middle of the night flopping around with no power, sail or engine. It took a while to think of anything other than WTF! I figured it out though, and limped into New Port to set things straight.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Damn, you built that yourself? That's incredible. I knew you were working on a boat, but I didn't realize it was that big.

That's what she said.

 

[Minstrel]

That's what she said.

She said she knew he was working on a boat? Kinky.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

She said she knew he was working on a boat? Kinky.

Well, she thought he said schooner.

 

[Further]

Ha! Actually that was bad friggin day. Sailed for about 1.5 hours and the wind just stopped. Fired up the iron sail and off again, err for about 7 or 8 hours, then the engine died. I had pumped all the fuel out of the tank into the bilge storage tank. Just a little over-site in the plumbing. Then I found out that the fuel pump would not pump out of the bilge tank, too low, would not lift that far. But it took me a few hours to figure that out laying in my bunk out at sea in the middle of the night flopping around with no power, sail or engine. It took a while to think of anything other than WTF. I figured it out though, and limped into New Port to set things straight.

Ha, isn't that life. Well, glad you got it worked out, or at least glad you continue to work out the kinks. I know it's a much smaller example, but the first engine I ever took apart was on a crappy old dodge when I was around 20. Spent a every day for a week working on it, taking everything apart that I could, added a few new parts. Put it all back together and went to close the hood to start it up, the hood wouldn't close. The engine purred, but I couldn't drive it. So I had to take it all apart again, take off some of my additions and when I put it all back together that time, it wouldn't start. I never actually got to drive that car again. Spent too much money on rebuilding everything that to do it a third time made no sense.

 

[MarAzul]

Ha

Ha! I laughed several times reading this. Yes! you matched my day.

 

[stampedehero]

Did you consider use of solar panels?

 

[MarAzul]

Did you consider use of solar panels?

I did, I calculated that several times, but I still need a diesel genset for charging batteries. There is just not enough room to get enough panels on the boat and still sail it. I do have an idea though, to keep it short, just call it a water generator to use at sea, then a couple panels to supplement the power generator may work as a team to keep the batteries up when sailing. And a little longer when anchored as a convenience.

My small Kubota diesel genset produces up to 230 amps of 12v power and will bang the battery bank up in a bit more than an hour on the cycles I laid out for the deep cycle battery bank. Geez, I would need Solar Sails to get that much solar power and the cost would be, ouch!

 

[PDXFonz]

Damn, you built that yourself? That's incredible. I knew you were working on a boat, but I didn't realize it was that big.

Did you picture him doing something like this?

 

[Minstrel]

Did you picture him doing something like this?

Add a bottle, yes.

No, I thought it was a smaller, but still human-usable boat.

 

[stampedehero]

I did, I calculated that several times, but I still need a diesel genset for charging batteries. There is just not enough room to get enough panels on the boat and still sail it. I do have an idea though, to keep it short, just call it a water generator to use at sea, then a couple panels to supplement the power generator may work as a team to keep the batteries up when sailing. And a little longer when anchored as a convenience.

My small Kubota diesel genset produces up to 230 amps of 12v power and will bang the battery bank up in a bit more than an hour on the cycles I laid out for the deep cycle battery bank. Geez, I would need Solar Sails to get that much solar power and the cost would be, ouch!

I thought of the small 3' x 5'panel size of that we have attached on our utility poles. Supplemental needs was in my thoughts. Mar Azul can sail!!

 

[MarAzul]

small 3' x 5'panel

I might find room for about four of those, eventually.

 

[MarAzul]

As of today, MarAzul will be in the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend WA this coming September.

http://nwmaritime.org/events/wooden-boat-festival/

Geez, this mean the skipper needs to hustle.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

As of today, MarAzul will be in the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend WA this coming September.

http://nwmaritime.org/events/wooden-boat-festival/

Geez, this mean the skipper needs to hustle.

Our annual Festival is the most educational and inspiring wooden boat event in the world.

• 300 boats on land and water

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Never been a fan of land boats, seems to defeat the purpose of owning a boat.

 

[MarAzul]

land boats

I'm not sure what the mean there either. The only thing I can think of is a boat on a trailer. But what ever it is, it will be the majority of the boats I think.
As I recall, the harbor, Port Hudson is pretty small, maybe 40, 50, tops 60 boat in the harbor.
Probably the biggest will be MarAzul, I am sweating it, getting her squeezed in there. I may need a little rubber boat to work as a tug to pusher her around the corners.

 

[MarAzul]

Starboard side Sanded, washed and cleaned with lacquer thinner. Taped ready for stain prior to Spar application.

A little work done today, Five hours blown on S2 and three hour on the MarAzul! Probably ought to reverse that, but it rain heavy here in Winchester Bay today. So a good day anyway considering.

A better day tomorrow and half the side will have Spar applied. That dang thing is 12 feet in the air at the bow!

 

[riverman]

She said she knew he was working on a boat? Kinky.

she said he was pumping into the wrong tank and not long enough to pump it out again...

 

[ripcityboy]

That my friend is a damn fine boat. I'm as jealous as hell. And it takes a lot to get me jealous.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Forget the stripes, you need to go with ghost flames.

 

[MarAzul]

Both sides done. A fresh coat of bottom paint and she is ready for an appearance in the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.

 

[Denny Crane]

The Easy Way to Stop Leaks!

 

[MarAzul]

The Easy Way to Stop Leaks!

I am going to try some on the bottom of an old inflatable. Leaks bad right through the cloth. We shall see!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Both sides done. A fresh coat of bottom paint and she is ready for an appearance in the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.

Looks good but I still think the ghost flames is the way to go.