If you would like to take a deeper dive into all things Gyrfalcon…. This spring Nancy put together an incredible coffee table book about the boat for guests, visitors and potential buyers. Here’s a link to a PDF version. It’s a large file, best downloaded and viewed on a computer. Enjoy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WrWyCwtaWps0aUJWFULRcUNbHB6sPEmP/view?usp=drive_link
For the past 12 years, we have had 5 grey painted plywood hatches along with 2 fir hatches in our stateroom. At some point, there must have been either fir hatches that got replaced, or a fir floor that was cut up for renovations and replaced with ply. Mostly the hatches are covered up…
What we’re doing Here is a color-coded diagram that may help explain these repairs. It’s complicated… Dutchmen After removing the shafts and their assorted bearings, struts, etcetera, (see last blog), the delignified wood was removed from the floor timber. Fortunately, the soft wood only extended a short distance into the floor timbers and the floor…
What’s been happening with the Gyrfalcon? Well, a lot. Late last fall, we took the Gyrfalcon over to Port Townsend for some scheduled upkeep involving bearings, stuffing boxes, shafts, and a generator, and then we took off for New Zealand (by air, not by boat). This blog is about the first part of the project:…
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…
Our boat has lots of marlinspike–wonderful ropework done (we think) by the US Coast Survey crew over the years that the Gyrfalcon was a government boat. Sections have disappeared or are cracking off, and need replacing. My first attempt (Nancy) at serious ropework was last summer. Katie W taught Jessica and me how to make…
The living spaces got several upgrades this year during our stay at LUBR. Here are the projects and pictures (some in slide show mode). GALLEY AND SALOON The middle 2 cabinet doors above the sink had always been cattywampus. Part of the problem was that the cabinet bottom has warped over the years, but that…
We had a number of outside projects this winter. PORT LIGHT (PORTHOLE) MAINTENANCE: First, Gabe at LUBR made new urethane gaskets for all of our port lights windows. He made a mold and poured the gaskets over a week’s time. We counted them–there are 37! Some had the original 1941 gum rubber, and others had…
We had compiled a long list of updates for the Gyrfalcon. Several of these are in anticipation of longer cruising in the future; others just are part of the usual maintenance after more than 5000 miles of cruising in the last 8 years. We headed over to Lake Union Boat Repair in late January. We…
We have a large cabinet in the galley under the microwave, where we store most of our pots and pans. The cabinet is deep (26 inches), and there are many pots and pans, so you end up digging around in the dark, trying to find the an you want. In addition, the cabinets drawers were…
