Flotsam & Jetsam

After reading the latest installment of Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat David Peebles writes:

I always hated coming into Squalicum Harbor (Bellingham) at night, because I had a hard time sorting out navigation beacons from red and green traffic lights in town.

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Reader Eric Russell had the following question for readers:

Recently, when I launched Nereid into relatively still water, I noticed that there was a slight oil slick from the wheel bearings on my trailer. I mentioned it to an older friend who has done a lot of boat towing and got the classic “They all do that” answer. He recommended that I buy a marine axle bearing grease and repack the bearings.

I have searched this area and have not found this product. The closest seems to be outboard lower unit grease. We are in a boating area and find it odd that this would be hard to procure.

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Speaking of Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat, here’s he latest postcard from Gary and Karen Sack:

We left the lovely river Thames and entered the Kennet & Avon canal. By specs, it is 3’ 7” deep. Yendor draws 3’. We bumped leaving the first lock and ran seriously aground in front of the bistros of downtown Reading. Two more delapitated locks later it opened into this ditch which soon had a stranded Yendor in the middle of it. I took this photo after extracting her...we were kind of busy at the time.

Also shown are a beautiful old steam ship and Banjo Nick who proves how little you really need to live on the river

We have enjoyed the Thames river, upstream and downstream. Returning to Swale we will step our mast and try getting to Ireland by sailing out the English channel.

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We’re excited to announce the launch of a new sister-website, Boatbuilder Logbook. It occurred to us that there really is no perfect place to document a boat build or restoration. Sure, some builders will start their own blogs and others will post updates to Facebook groups, but the former rarely get much traffic, and the latter disappears into the endless feed.

Boatbuilder Logbook is designed to be an easy place to post regular updates on your build or boat project, and it should hopefully serve as good archival reference source for future builders. The Logbook should also help celebrate launches and motivate new builders.

After a quick email registration you will have your own My Workshop homepage where you can start logging your own build.

Things you can do there:

• Quickly register for free and begin logging your build.
• Browse other builds (sort by type, designer, etc)
• Cheer/like other builds
• Send private messages to other builders

Please note we are still in the beta test stage, so we would appreciate any and all feedback about bugs or friction encountered while using. We also have a long list of additional features we plan to implement as we go.

One final note: If you’ve already launched your boat but you have a photo record of the construction, it’s easy to register and enter a complete build (oldest photos first) in only minutes. Simply post 3 photos per logbook entry with as little or as much text as you want and you can quickly have a complete documentation of your build.

https://boatbuilderlogbook.com

Thanks for giving it a look. —Josh

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Here’s a great shot from our friend, Dan Phy. He writes:

B.Frank and friends just off St. Andrews Bay ICW….Potter 14, SF Pelican, SCAMP B.Frank.

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