by Tim
Jul 15 2011 in Gear locker, Guest Dock by Tim
[A FLIR thermal imager for under $2000? Yup! The first two questions I had: Does this unit have an output so I can view the image on a laptop or a chartplotter? Does it have a fitting so it can be mounted temporarily, perhaps with a sturdy suction-cup mount such as the SeaSucker? I passed [...]
by Deborah Bach
Jul 12 2011 in Currents, Food & Drink by Deborah Bach
Seeing the mounds of mouth-wateringly fresh produce before us at the Olympia Farmers Market, I realized we’d made a major provisioning mistake. The colors and textures were dazzling. Plump red and yellow Rainier cherries. Deliciously crisp snap peas. Gorgeous crimson and white radicchio. Suddenly, the supermarket produce stowed in our boat’s refrigerator seemed limp and sad. [...]
Jun 28 2011 in Gear locker, Seamanship by Marty McOmber
So what happens on your sailboat when the rigging snaps and the mast goes over the side? How do you deal with the wreckage? What tools work best? And how do you salvage your sails and what’s left of the spar? The editors of the British boating magazine Yachting Monthly took out their “crash boat” for a fascinating [...]
Jun 17 2011 in Gear locker, On Watch by Marty McOmber
A regular reader of Three Sheets Northwest recently commented, and I’m paraphrasing a bit, that boaters sure do spend a lot of time talking about poop. And this week’s column is no different. We’ve written a lot about our new composting head, including why we decided to get one and how the installation process worked. [...]
Jun 10 2011 in Gear locker, On Watch by Marty McOmber
The one thing Deborah resents about boating is having to think so much about waste — as in, the kind we humans personally produce. But I’m going to spend the next two On Watch columns talking about just that. Sorry, honey. As many of you know, we’ve been working on upgrading the sanitation system aboard Three [...]
by Al Felker
May 25 2011 in Gear locker by Al Felker
In our search for improving our life aboard, I have discovered that charging our laptop computers can be a time consuming chore depending on your charging method. During a recent trip to West Sound in Orcas Island, I discovered it takes longer to charge our laptops using our generator than when using shore power. [...]
by Deborah Bach
May 16 2011 in Business of Boating, Gear locker, Seamanship by Deborah Bach
Steve Roberts did his homework, reading online forums and researching the options before buying an onboard medical kit a few years ago. But the La Conner resident and Northwest sailor wasn’t particularly happy with it. Some items were redundant and there was a lot of excess packaging. The kit was expensive, more than $300, and the container was not [...]
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