We have been looking to add to our boating options

I fit the anchor roller on the bow last evening. It slid into place and with one last tweek, grind, I will bolt it down. The fit was near perfect, but a 1/16" off of one surface will improve the alignment. Back to the shop, should have brought the grinder with me.
Nice battering ram though.

@zipper Is that the finished product of the one you drew up much earlier in the thread? Looks great!

2kwik4u said:

@zipper Is that the finished product of the one you drew up much earlier in the thread? Looks great!

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Yes Sir. Been designing, working, shaping, tweeking, procrastinating on it for a year! Thanks.

Seems like we have been out more in Sept/Oct. than we were out all Summer. Busy couple of months in the Blueberry field in July/August. Replaced/refitted a lot of equipment over the Summer. Glad to get the beautiful weather this time of year to try it out. These light wind days are good to try out adjustments in sail trim to try and find a few 1/10th's of a knot in speed. Pretty much a glass lake surface at 3.1 kts, but our SOG is 3 kts. Having fun with boats in October, before it all turns white. This boat is particularly fast in light winds with it's tall rig. We caught up to and passed 2 more boats today. It's not a race...until another boat shows up.




Oh, and we pulled up to the fuel dock this weekend to get some diesel put in the tank for the first time since we bought the boat in May 2018. Had 5 gallons put in which filled the tank. Cost $16.

Our season on the Lake is over. She is in her cradle, on the hard, for the Winter. Shrink wrapping is scheduled for later this coming week. But 6-12" of the white stuff are predicted between Monday, tomorrow and Tuesday so we went out to the marina today to put a big tarp over the boom to keep some of the snow out of the cockpit until she gets covered. They pack them in here pretty tight, we are in the middle.

Have you seen the documentary called The Weekend Sailor? I just watched this morning. It’s about the Mexican dude that has never sailed and enters the round the world sailing race and wins. Pretty darn good documentary.

BigN8 said:

Have you seen the documentary called The Weekend Sailor? I just watched this morning. It’s about the Mexican dude that has never sailed and enters the round the world sailing race and wins. Pretty darn good documentary.

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Thanks, gonna look it up on Amazon Prime and check it out.

We went out to the Boat Yard today to remove the temporary tarp from the boat, mission accomplished. It was scheduled for shrink wrapping this afternoon. It is hard to see the Lake thru all the sticks. All kinds of boats out there.

Deep into a Vermont Winter, this is how my wife deals with Cabin Fever during a storm. Missing the boat, she put together a slideshow of the cockpit teak refit.


The project list of modifications/additions is smaller this year. That means more sailing. The first job is the replacement of the cabin sole which currently is a mismatch of Mahogany and Teak marine plywood in fair condition. We will be using Black Cherry/Holly marine plywood epoxied and urethaned all surfaces.



The first addition will be Stern Perch seats for the stern pulpit rails.



The other addition/mod. will be new companionway doors to replace/use with the existing acrylic boards.



The doors will be a welcome modification with options for security and ventilation.

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This is me! LOL

A couple of things of interest to some perhaps. Willow just started a YouTube channel about Sailing Panana . Uploaded some short videos, More to come with drone footage as soon as the weather warms up. Another thing, we were sitting having coffee in the cabin this morning, listening to "IZ" and pulled up a Hawaiian dictionary. It is a good thing her family spells her name with the accents over the A's versus not having any, it's actually pretty funny.

Many spellings



AND because it is boat related, it is a good thing it is not spelled like the green meaning below. Funny, just say'in.



It's been in her family since the mid 1800's. The "chiefess" mentioned below was her great great grandmother.

To fight off the cabin fever, Willow put together a little introductory trailer video. We will be back tracking on the boat refit. We will revisit much of the refit via video from the cockpit teak and windlass/anchor roller design and build to the installation of the NavPod with Raymarine Axiom 9 RV, wind instruments and auto pilot with all wiring concealed within the 1 1/4" dia. pedestal guard. Yes, even getting the plug/cable from the transducer which is greater than the diameter of the pedestal guard, to the NavPod. Some of you guys have watched it from the beginning on this thread. Now we will put some of this process to video. It's a work in progress. Between the Mavic 2 zoom, the gimbaled Osmo, Hero 5, lights, microphones and dead cats and then learning how they work best, the video's will improve.

zipper said:

A couple of things of interest to some perhaps. Willow just started a YouTube channel about Sailing Panana . Uploaded some short videos, More to come with drone footage as soon as the weather warms up. View attachment 111604 Another thing, we were sitting having coffee in the cabin this morning, listening to "IZ"

and pulled up a Hawaiian dictionary. It is a good thing her family spells her name with the accents over the A's versus not having any, it's actually pretty funny.

Many spellings

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AND because it is boat related, it is a good thing it is not spelled like the green meaning below. Funny, just say'in.

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It's been in her family since the mid 1800's. The "chiefess" mentioned below was her great great grandmother.

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IZ, what a beautiful man. Hard not to feel moved listening to this:

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She said "Ya'll". !!!!! I thought in NE it was pronounced "you's guys"??

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She said "Ya'll". !!!!! I thought in NE it was pronounced "you's guys"??

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Funny, "you's guys" is NJ @swatski might be able to confirm that in a few months. We met and lived in Orlando, Florida (UCF) for a few years in the mid/late 80's, before moving to VT. Some habits stay with us.

I recall my Aunt in MA saying You's guys. It will get a funny look when said around here.

We went out to the Beneteau this afternoon to measure for cockpit cushions. We recieved the 2" closed cell foam, marine vinyl and the foam cutter today.



We also had recieved the stern rail perch seats and brought them out for a test fit. This is going to be an awesome place to sit at the helm and steer with my feet. Bringing them back home so Willow can make foam cushions and a back rail pad for them too.

Interested to learn how the foam cutter works for you. I have heard mixed reviews...

zipper said:

We went out to the Beneteau this afternoon to measure for cockpit cushions. We recieved the 2" closed cell foam, marine vinyl and the foam cutter today.

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We also had recieved the stern rail perch seats and brought them out for a test fit. This is going to be an awesome place to sit at the helm and steer with my feet. Bringing them back home so Willow can make foam cushions for them too.

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I love that "perch seat"!
I may need to get one for use at home.

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tdonoughue said:

Interested to learn how the foam cutter works for you. I have heard mixed reviews...

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We will be using it very soon. And I will review it. I know that using an electric knife to cut 4" foam, it is very difficult to keep a square edge. I was going to make a hot wire cutter, DIY all over Youtube. But she wanted to try this cutter first.

swatski said:

I love that "perch seat"!
I may need to get one for use at home.

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Alright, you have peaked my interest. Not trying to be nosey, but you have released many thoughts racing around my mind on why you would "get one for use at home." I can only imagine.