Posts by Gyrfalcon88
What’s Happened in the past year, Part II
A continuation of the last post – more then and now pictures Lighting LED bulbs are the way to go on a boat. They are available in 24v DC, they don’t generate much heat, and they use very little current – important when your power comes from batteries. If you have been down the aisles…
Read MoreWhat’s happened in the last year?
It has been just over a year since we began the Gyrfalcon Restoration. There were many times when we thought we would never get to the point of actually living on board. We recently put together a talk for the Classic Yacht Association (PNW fleet) annual meeting. While preparing the talk, we were both amazed…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS: WE HAVE MOVED ABOARD!!!
So people say to us: What’s with the blog? You haven’t posted anything in months. Did you fall overboard? Did you sell the boat? Were you finally committed? We have been busy. Sanding and painting and sikaflexing and sanding and painting. We have taken on all the inside painting. It turns out that I like…
Read MoreFAQ, Part 2
This is a continuation of the previous post of Frequently Asked Questions about the Gyrfalcon. What’s up with the roofs and the deck? The coachhouse and pilothouse roofs have been primed and sanded. Next is a coat of nonskid. The mahogany railing is on around the coachhouse roof, and has also been primed and sanded. …
Read MoreFAQ, part 1
We were at a scientific meeting a few weeks ago with several hundred toxicologic pathologists. We were asked the same questions about the boat by lots of people. Since everyone seemed to be curious about the same aspects of the Gyrfalcon project, we thought you all might be interested in the questions and answers. So…
Read MoreA Blog pertaining to paint
One of the major activities on the Gyrfalcon these last few weeks has been painting and varnishing. Jeff and his gang from Onshore Yacht finishing are doing a spectacular job. They often work over the weekends, when the boatwrights are gone, so that they can bag off sections of the boat and spray. At this…
Read MoreHow Nancy and Peter became homeless (for a couple of minutes)
As you know, we have been planning to move onto the Gyrfalcon sometime this summer. Recent events have modified the narrative path. Our original plan was to put our house on the market in late May, which would have meant that we were ready to move in mid-summer, about the time that the Gyr was…
Read MoreThe Coach Roof is Done!
The biggest project on the Gyr has been the coach roof repairs. Gordy has been working on replacing the roof and many of the beams and building the cap and the handrails since October. He has done a beautiful job. In the last week or so, the flat surface has been glassed and epoxied and…
Read MoreRenovations, Part 3: January, 2013
The work continues. Scraping: Early in the year, we decided to hire two young guys to help us with scraping the old paint off the newly exposed beams, walls and ceilings. At first we were worried about the effect of the extra cost on our burn rate, and thought we would try it for a…
Read MoreRenovations, Part 2 – November-December, 2012
Renovations are finally taking a positive direction. In the past few weeks there seems to be more of the Gyr coming back together than being ripped apart! Here’s what’s been happening: 1. Coach Roof: The rotten roof has been replaced. The bad areas were much more extensive than originally thought, and in the end about…
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