Category: General

Rudderdundancy…

April 12, 2016

First, the backstory… Ordered emergency rudder from Competition Composites in Canada.  It shipped UPS and we redirected it to the UPS warehouse in north Austin because it required a signature and we wouldn’t be home to sign.  Rudder arrived at the warehouse Monday morning.  Monday evening we spend an hour poking along in rush hour

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When the Sun shines down…

April 9, 2016

We finished installing the solar panels today.  Two 70W panels and two Genasun GV-10 controllers to charge a 110 amp hour Firefly Oasis carbon foam battery.  We only dropped one small, important, non-standard part for one of the clamps in the water, so for a boat project, we can call that a success! According to

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Yeah, it’s got a Hemi!

March 20, 2016

We’ve had many great weekends for sailing and racing this winter, but this week and next have been reserved for off the water projects to get Spadefoot ready for Pacific Cup in July.  First up, was a big one.  We’ve had Spadefoot for 1.5 years and the boat came with a nice trailer, but up

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Orange is the New White

February 21, 2016

Some things are arriving in the mail and others we are making.  This weekend we can share a little of both.  Our storm jib arrived from Voyager Sails.  I like orange, but in this case, it is a requirement that storm jibs are safety orange, so we didn’t even have a choice.  It is a svelte

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3D Printing for Spadefoot

January 17, 2016

One of the fun things about owning a custom one-off boat is that you get to do custom things without rules or restrictions.  This has been very true over the past year as we’ve added a retractable sprit and asymmetrical spinnakers.  The sprit is actually part of the original carbon Hoyt jib boom.  The brackets

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2014 GBCA Yachtsman of the Year. Wow!

February 9, 2015

Wow! I think Chris & I have said that about 10 times in the last two days. On Saturday we drove the 3 hours to Seabrook, on the shores of Galveston Bay to attend the GBCA Commodore’s Ball. We took advantage of the trip to drop off a car load of used boat equipment we’d

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Oahu to Washington – Complete

August 15, 2014

Shearwater has completed her return voyage from Kaneohe Bay to the Pacific Northwest. She is now happily moored near the entrance of Hood Canal off Puget Sound waiting for us to sail her up to Bellingham over Labor Day Weekend. Thanks Bill & Darlene for taking care of our baby.

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Pacific Cup – Video

August 10, 2014

Below is a link to our video summary of Pacific Cup 2014.  What a fantastic experience, all captured on camera! Pacific Cup 2014 – video

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Pacific Cup – By the Numbers

July 28, 2014

I think we’ll probably have one or two more posts on our Pac Cup experience (a video and a few pictures), so bear with us on the updates…but thought there might be some interest in the numbers: Diesel taken = 27 gallons, and we finished with ~15 gallons as we ran the engine 2 hours/day

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Shearwater Tracking – Friends of Bill & Darlene

July 26, 2014

For those of you interested in following Shearwater and who know Bill & Darlene, the YellowBrick Tracker onboard is On and functioning, however, the Status was turned off prior to handover to us, so the unit is not tracking.  This can be easily fixed by Bill or Darlene onboard, once they are aware of it.

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