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Check out this video. It might help and maybe give you some ideas.

I think we bleached out the old sail too but can’t be sure. It was very old and had more than one stain.

That was back in 2011and that old, bagged out sail has since been replaced. That said, I did have some stains from a birds nest in my newer, current main sail which I mostly cleaned using Clorox bleach spray. What’s left will probably bleach out by the sun (I hope) and for now I’m just ignoring...

New video of our latest spring sail on the Chesapeake which includes some fun with a Insta360 camera.

My E32-3 came with TWO wine racks. Those Irvine, CA folks must of sure liked wine! One is built in and located in the galley. Too small of a space to rip out and install a microwave or anything else for that matter so we just stores other things there, sponges, galley towels, etc. The other was...

I still consider myself still to be sort of a ”novice” at sailing even with about 25 years under my belt, on the Chesapeake Bay mostly (with a charter elsewhere thrown in now and then) but I wasn’t sailing all that frequently during all of those years. Now, retired, I sail much more. Still I’ve...

We just finish the first half (sitting in a transient slip typing this) of our first overnight trip on the bay but before we did we made sure to stock up on “boat bacon”! Three sometimes hard to find half-cans which are ideal for two people unless of course the other person hates SPAM which then...

Christian, as a long time consumer of SPAM I have to take exception on how you prepare a meal with it. My preferred way is to pan fry slices (not chunks) throw some cheese over the slice in the pan, cover to melt. Lay it all on a slice of artisan bread with some dark brown mustard. Yum! Leave...

Of course knowing little about amateur radio operations….when I first read the title of this posting I was wondering what canned meats have to do with sailing. :egrin:

“Why is this not thread drift? Because, um, er, ah, it extends the evolution in design to subsequent interactive oblique consequences and refractory counterarguments inversely proportional to the limitation of initially presumtive exclusionary intention.” …and it’s all interesting reading. :egrin:

This has been one of the most interesting group of comments I've ever read on the EYO site! A physiological examination of sorts as to why we all bought a Ericson. For me it was a simple choice, almost an epiphany. In my pre-Ericson days, long ago, I was the owner of a Hunter 285 which my...

The first mate and I took Vesper out of Back Creek in Annapolis for its first sail of 2024 and to take a good look at our newly cleaned and repaired head sail. One of the first things we noticed was the lack of freights anchored out waiting their turn to enter Baltimore. Not one ship could be...

Well, so we are. It’s getting like I just don’t know where I am half the time. This happens when you retire, remember it or better yet write it down cause you won’t remember. :egrin:

Christian, you had me laughing out loud at “the essence of a French Motel 6”!

Thinking of a smaller solar setup on my E32 and so I’ve been doing some research. The one point I do remember reading is to try and have a controller for each panel because if the only controller you have craps out then you can’t charge but if you have one controller for each panel then on...