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Happy Way Bus #2
Yes, Jen & Harry are still boat people! But life sorta happened and we've been away from Solla for another painfully long stretch. It hasn't stopped us from doing remote boat projects, however. What follows is a retrospective on my 2nd chaps project. If you're not into sewing, feel free to skip this one... or just come look at the pics. A real update will be coming soon, I promise.
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Happy Way Bus
A retrospective (not a how-to) on creating custom chaps, for any other brave souls who embark on this sizeable sewing project. Also, the origin of the name of our dinghy, the Happy Way Bus.
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Solla Sails (whew!)
The boat sails; she sails well in fact, and now that we’ve serviced the heat exchanger she motors well too! But wait, there’s more…. nothing broke or failed to function! I’m happy of course, but I think “relieved” is the chief emotion 🙂 The “tune-the-rig” sail with our rigger and friend Barrett didn’t end up happening (no wind, and I’m giving him little welding lessons so we did that instead). The following day, New Years Eve, Deb came and we got off the dock around 1130am. The tracking device in our Wirie that I got working that morning performed beautifully, and you can see the route we took for the…
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Sew, Sew, Sew!
As soon as we got home from the Christmas holidays with family up in Tahoe, we got to work. I had 3 covers to make in 3 days: outboard, hydrovane, and staysail foredeck bag. (I was going to make a 4th, a cover for the windlass, but aborted for the time-being). Each posed a very different plan of attack. For the outboard, I planned to roughly follow the steps laid out in this Sailrite video. I wanted to deviate slightly and have the throttle cover be attached to the main body cover instead of 2 separate pieces like they do, and I had 6 pleats instead of 4. I got pretty…
Sailing/Cruising Blog of Jen & Harry aboard the Solla Sollew
