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Sailing with Kōan: Pit and mast upgrades
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Pit and mast upgrades. The way things used to be:. A Garhauer stainless steel rigid vang and a wooden backing board for the pit control line clutches. The pre-1993 Harken 150 cams for the pit controls were corroded beyond belief! Of the 6 cams on the pit board and the mainsheet controls only 2 were serviceable, one as was, one after a rebuild. Here's the carnage:. This is how it is now:. May 28, 2013 at 6:18 AM.
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Sailing with Kōan: January 2015
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Monday, January 5, 2015. Moss Landing at last. In mid-July Kitty and I completed Koan's move to Moss Landing. The trip up was stunning. We encountered lots of whales in San Simeon Bay, South of Point Piedras Blancas, and motored along that stretch enjoying the show. If one were to hit us, we'd be goners. And on top of that, I wasn't quite sure how to observe the "do not harass whales" law which requires me to shut off my engine when within X feet (ca...
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Sailing with Kōan: June 2014
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Thursday, June 12, 2014. Uphill migration - leg #1. Koan has begun her trek North. Motivated by NWS LOX. Around what looked to me like a workboat mooring. We turned on the VHF as we were passing abreast, only to be greeted by a Coast Guard notice to mariners informing us that what we were witnessing was in fact a barge in the process of sinking. Too cool! All in all, we made it look easy :). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Other IF Boat blogs.
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Sailing with Kōan: August 2012
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Monday, August 20, 2012. Weekend trip to Diablo anchorage. On the first part of the sail to the island we only had about 10 kts of wind, so Kitty took the opportunity to test her aerial photography kite. The kite looks like this:. And then she added the camera on a rotating base, which looks like this:. We got lots of photos of the surface of the ocean, and a few cool ones of Koan, like these:. I took some photos of Koan anchored:. Other IF Boat blogs.
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Sailing with Kōan: July 2012
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Another fantastic sailing movie. I've previously posted about "Hold Fast", one of my favorite sailing movies of all time. Well, it's time to add another much anticipated release to the list! I followed Nick Jaffe's trip across the Atlantic and the Pacific through his website BigOceans. And actually learned a lot in the process. Now Jack Rath has made a documentary called "Between Home", which you can download here.
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Sailing with Kōan: Moss Landing at last
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Monday, January 5, 2015. Moss Landing at last. In mid-July Kitty and I completed Koan's move to Moss Landing. The trip up was stunning. We encountered lots of whales in San Simeon Bay, South of Point Piedras Blancas, and motored along that stretch enjoying the show. If one were to hit us, we'd be goners. And on top of that, I wasn't quite sure how to observe the "do not harass whales" law which requires me to shut off my engine when within X feet (ca...
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Sailing with Kōan: April 2014
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. A lot has happened since my last posting, and projects have been slow over the intervening months. But there is some progress to report, and still more to come soon. For today, I report on the successful venting of frustrations that was the removal of the headliner. It was a bit disgusting, and soreness inducing, and here's the mess it made. But it came off. And look at the awesomeness it revealed! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Sailing with Kōan: Uphill migration -- leg #1
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Thursday, June 12, 2014. Uphill migration - leg #1. Koan has begun her trek North. Motivated by NWS LOX. Around what looked to me like a workboat mooring. We turned on the VHF as we were passing abreast, only to be greeted by a Coast Guard notice to mariners informing us that what we were witnessing was in fact a barge in the process of sinking. Too cool! All in all, we made it look easy :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other IF Boat blogs.
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Sailing with Kōan: Screw the headliner
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. A lot has happened since my last posting, and projects have been slow over the intervening months. But there is some progress to report, and still more to come soon. For today, I report on the successful venting of frustrations that was the removal of the headliner. It was a bit disgusting, and soreness inducing, and here's the mess it made. But it came off. And look at the awesomeness it revealed! Other IF Boat blogs.
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Sailing with Kōan: April 2012
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Logs of the S/V Kōan, International Folkboat 1244. Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Time lapse videos from the trip. During our recent sailing trip to Santa Cruz Island we had the use of Dan's Hero HD camera with a waterproof enclosure, so we took some time lapse photography series. The settings were for 720p every 30 seconds, and I compiled them at 1 frame per second at lower resolution. The third is of us sailing away from the island the day after, but after all the excitement of putting away the anchors and ...
