Recent content by Rowan

SF Aquatic Park Hi Sven,We just recently (2 weeks ago) relocated to the SF Bay Area so I don't know a lot about the boating amenities but if you are interested in anchoring out I would recommend you check out the SF Aquatic Park. It is downtown, very close to Pier 39, Ghirardelli Square, etc...

I don't recall there being a separate cup piece that we attached but I will ask Devon, he may remember differently. It has been working fine through the wax, we verified the depth in shallow water and we haven't gotten any erratic readings. Here on the river around St. Helens we see depths in...

We are also in the process of looking for a good spotlight. We haven't found one we like yet so I can't help you there but I can tell you that we purchased and returned the West Marine LED SuperSpot Searchlight. It seemed ideal, it was lightweight, bright, waterproof, and small. The problem is...

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I'm in Oregon and I am trying to buy a windlass from an antique shop in Newport Beach but they don't take credit cards or Paypal. I was hoping to send the money via Paypal to somebody local who could pick the windlass up for me and drop it off at the UPS store that is down the street from the...

razehnder, We installed a Garmin 441S in our e31 in August 2010. We didn't want to haul out at the time so we ordered the "shoot thru the hull" transducer and it has worked fine. While I can't vouch for the accuracy of the deep water readings we verified the shallow readings with a lead line...

I only learned of the C-head after we installed our Airhead so I don't know as much about them. However, I believe the C-head is a dehydrating toilet, not a composting toilet (though the Airhead doesn't completely compost the waste, I think of it as a composting/dehydrating hybrid). The main...

Solace: When we bought 'Imi Loa (Independence 31) almost 2 years ago we removed the existing marine head and holding tank and installed an Airhead Composting Toilet. The system isn't perfect but we are happy with our decision and our installation. The points brought up by newpbs are all goods...

Wow, I am impressed you tackled the toerails. That sounds like a huge project! Just getting to all the bolts is a project in itself. Devon tightened all of ours except the ones in the vberth (we will do those when we tear out the vinyl this year). We are also planning to replace the bowsprit in...

Hi Keiffer, A lot of cruisers are retired and living off of their retirement income, some are young and just living very very frugally and earning money when they can, and some save up and cruise until the money gets low then go back to work to save some more to go out again. We plan to be in...

I thought this might be of interest: http://interviewwithacruiser.blogspot.com/

and yet another E31 Devon and I were down in the Bay Area a few weeks ago and we spotted this E31. We were down there visiting my family but we also took the opportunity to check out some of the local marinas (we hope to be moving down in the next year or so). The first marina we looked at...

Age: 40 I grew up in the desert (New Mexico) so not a lot of water around. I had never been on a sailboat until we bought our 14' O'Day Javelin this past January. We took her to the lake the next day only to find the lake was closed for the winter so we found an empty lot and stepped the mast...

We we out from Aug 21 to the 26 down here on the Columbia. We also experienced the variable NW weather. It was hot and dry with great wind the first few days (BTW laundry dries incredibly fast when sailing upwind in hot dry weather), then cool, cloudy, with some sprinkles (but very little wind)...

Enchantress and an E-36C We just spent a very nice 3 day weekend in St. Helens, the weather was beautiful (a bit on the hot side for Portland but after our damp chilly June and early July I'm not going to complain). We finally met Mike, the owner of Enchantress, a very nice fellow indeed. Devon...