Archive | July 27, 2012

Piña lately

just thought everyone should take a break from reading about boat projects and see what Piña has been up to lately! Piña was going crazy looking out the window the other morning and i had to peak and see what she was looking at. holy crap! a red eyed raptor staring straight back!  (also check out […]

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New Auto Tiller

when i bought the boat it came with a navico 1600 autotiller. pretty old, but it got the job done. we needed something more up to date, with more torque. i chose the Simrad TP22. we could have gotten the lower model for cheaper. but i’ve found with boating that you need to know when […]

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New Outboard for the Dinghy

7/17/12 so we’ve been rocking the dinghy around the harbor with a 30 lb. torque Minn Kota electric trolling motor wired to a car battery. as seen here below. it went just over walking speed. which was fine for a silent cruise around the harbor or even a venture out into the ocean on a […]

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