Head Restoration
Internal restoration has started with the head in the Master berth. Anyone dare guess as to why that room was chosen?
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Fresh Water Toilets
Cruising and living on the St. Johns river presents a problem many of us tend to ignore; the odor and look of river water in the bowel of the toilet. Stephanie made the request a year ago that she wanted the ability to flush the toilets (heads) with both outside water (when cruising in blue water) and fresh water when on rivers.
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Trawler Maintenance Log
The primary bilge pump under the flooring in the main berth has been replaced with a Rule 3700 pump. While the flooring was out I finally ran 12 VDC wiring to the SalonMate ozone generator in the bilge. The difference that having this device running full time with regards to interior odor is remarkable.
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Bringing Tortuga Home to Jacksonville
Here is our third and final leg of our trip to bring our newly refurbished trawler from the Zimmerman Yard in Virginia down to Jacksonville, Florida. If you haven’t yet done so, begin with: Bringing Tortuga home to Jacksonville – Part One. Part one covers the first two legs of our trip to Jacksonville. In […]
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Wood Rot on a Trawler
There are two commonly available inexpensive materials that will kill rot in wood and prevent its recurrence. First, there are borates (borax-boric acid mixtures) which have an established record in preventing rot in new wood and in killing rot organisms and wood-destroying insects in infested wood.
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