Projects
New dock lines
I bought new 3 strand nylon 3/4″ dock line, which I had spliced by a guy at the store I bought it from. When I got it back I saw that he had finished the splices and cut ends with electrical tape. Not very yar… I removed the electrical tape […]
Yacht Design 101 – About exactly as hard as you would think it is
Sometimes I am reminded of the fact that I’m not just working on building a funny little quirky floating apartment, but a rather sophisticated piece of engineering wizardry. Due to the limited amount of information available on Creekmore Sailboats, and mine in particular, it’s not just as simple as assembly. […]
Furniture expansion
I suppose I’ll jump back into things with an update on my interior situation. I realize that every time I make an update to this blog I talk about how late and overdue the post is, so from now on please just know this is the case. I have been […]
Chilly on the Piscataqua, warm down below
Recently, I have had plenty of opportunity to put Creeky’s insulation to the test. On most days I am able to keep the inside temp in the mid 50’s with a single 15 amp space heater on the low setting, and up above 60 with it on high. Not too […]
So many updates, so much progress, so little time!
Well it seems that I am having difficulty making more than one post per month despite my best intentions. It truly is because I have been logging several hours of work on ‘ol Creeky daily and just haven’t had a chance to write about it. Long story short, it’s almost […]
Slow and steady wins the race
Another several weeks have flown by without an update on ‘ol Creeky, but that’s not because I haven’t been making progress. I’ve just been cranking away at things little by little as time has allowed. Every night when I get home from work I try to make some headway on […]
Summer in the city
Well I’m finally getting back into the swing of things. It still astounds me how quickly free time is depleted once the weather warms up. Since my last post there have been a lot of distractions; planning a trip to Vietnam, getting 99% of the rest of my belongings out of […]
First trip under Creeky’s own power
Well I’m making a bit more progress, little by little. One of the exciting things that happened this week was Creeky’s maiden voyage under her own power. It wasn’t exactly planned, and I wasn’t exactly ready, but it worked. I got a call on Monday afternoon from the marina telling […]
Forward motion (figuratively)
Well I finally got in touch with Konrad at West Mekan in Norway and got a little more information on the controllable pitch propeller, mostly in Norwegian. The Adobe PDF text recognition didn’t work, so I need to manually type all of the text in the first document into google […]