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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: An Update on the Propeller Issue
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Tuesday, June 19, 2012. An Update on the Propeller Issue. 06-28-12 Update: The new propeller is on its way back to me. Labels: maintenance and upgrades. June 19, 2012 at 2:18 PM. Hi daniel, Ive been following your blog - interesting. keep it up! I really like whiskeyjack. I recently aquired a sister (cousin? Boat which I am fixing up. I was just wondering if you know anything about the boats builder/beginnings. With ...
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: April 2012
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Monday, April 30, 2012. Temperature sender for gauge. Links to this post. Labels: maintenance and upgrades. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The Engine Assembly and a Poor Man's SpeedSeal. The engine starting to be assembled. M4 SHCS and Knob. For $0.22. They press onto the SHCS and the two parts are assembled, make it a knurled knob (use the jaws of a vise to assemble). Well, not really, but it ran well. There were a ...
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: Fresh Water Cooling & A Surprise
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Fresh Water Cooling and A Surprise. I mounted the heat exhanger by manufacturing "extention nuts" from stainless steel hex stock that replace two of the nuts that hold the exhaust manifold onto the engine head. Socket head cap screws then secure the heat exchanger mounting clamps to the other end of the extension nuts. And when it was all done it looked like this! The real surprise that I enc...
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: A Proud Beginning
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Tuesday, June 26, 2012. From a 1978 Pacific Yachting:. Many things on WhiskyJack are the same, but not the upholstery:. June 27, 2012 at 1:30 AM. I like the article. Again thanks for sharing and keeping the blog going. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. An Update on the Propeller Issue. Cliff Mass Weather Blog. Snow Update with a Probabilistic View. Ms Bettencourt's Next Voyage.
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: A Quick Visit of the San Juan Islands
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. A Quick Visit of the San Juan Islands. We have been avoiding the San Juan Islands for the last several times we have been in the area. Mostly because of the number of people. Toward the end of June, while transiting the area, we decided to stop into some places that we either had not visited or had not visited in a long time. English Camp, San Juan Island. From the State Park dock in Prevost ...
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: Labor Day Up-River Cruise
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Labor Day Up-River Cruise. Mt Hood on the bow from the pilot house. Sunset from our anchorage at Lady Island. The "hog line" off the mouth of the Sandy River. The paper mill at Camas, Washington. The wind is picking up and we drop the A-sail and hoist the jib and run under it alone. We now pass Multnomah Falls Oregon's tallest waterfall. Multnomah Falls has two steps, but only the...We co...
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: March 2014
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Monday, March 31, 2014. It has been "forever" since I posted in this blog and much has happened. We will start with one of last winter's (2012-2013) projects. But I should start at the beginning: Whiskyjack came with a Force 10 pressurized kerosene galley stove. It is/was a pretty stove and while it worked perfectly there were a couple of drawbacks. The fumes from the kerosene being the worst. Links to this post.
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter: Cruising up the coast of Washington
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WhiskyJack, a 25' Island Drifter. Whiskyjack at anchor in Garrison Bay, San Juan Island. Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Cruising up the coast of Washington. Day 1, Scappose, OR, to Illwaco, WA: The first day we traveled down the Columbia from our moorage in Scappoose to Illwaco, Washington, a distance of about 95 statute miles. This is a trip that we have made annually for many years, the only difference is that we take 10 days to go down and back and I wanted to make it in one. Sailing in a grey bubble. We wi...