Equipment

Fish tables, coping, and old wooden boats

By Gyrfalcon88 / September 19, 2021 /

We are going to share AK pictures at some point soon, but we have been very busy on some upgrade projects.  We’ve described a few of them here: a new fish table, coping quarter round, and trimming out a hatch. A new fish table Several years ago, we bought a folding fish table that just…

Adventures of the Mole People (Water tank, part 2)

By Gyrfalcon88 / June 6, 2021 /

First was the freshwater leak. Eight years ago, we had the tank sandblasted and then glassed and epoxied. It has behaved like new since then. On our trip through Canada, the tank sprung a leak – a small hole in one corner. We (with the wise council of Ben at LUBR) came up with an…

Water, Water, Everywhere

By Gyrfalcon88 / May 12, 2021 /

Life on a boat is never boring. Yesterday morning, we awoke to discover that the bilge pump under the guest staterooms was going on every 3 minutes (like clockwork for 20 seconds). At first, we thought we would just keep an eye on it, since bilge pumps often get stuck. As we prepared to leave…

Is there a tender in your future?

By Gyrfalcon88 / October 18, 2012 /

As part of the Gyrfalcon purchase, we also got a 20 foot double-ended-canoe tender. It is wooden with a 10 hp yanmar diesel, a bimini, a full canvas top and a GPS unit. We think it is too large to put on the top of the Gyrfalcon, and it needs some work, and the last…