DIY Reverse Osmosis Watermaker – Part 3 – Fitting it into the Boat

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I just don’t get it. I see people gluing plywood together, layering and sanding fiber glass, and worst of all, paying a welder to make a bracket or mount for something. The only people that will tell you that welding is difficult and expensive are the people who need you to pay them for welding. Go get a cheep Chinese stick weld, a grinder with some cut off disc and some stainless steel from the scrap yard. For a few hundred dollars and a weekend of practice you can be making your own brackets and more. When one of those old fart welders starts telling you how inferior you welds are, just do a bend break test on his head.

Wheels for the Boat – Part 3

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Peter, James, Perry and Eric dropped in to help, along with several visitors this week, so we’ll make it official that we are open for tours again. We appreciate visitors that can come on Saturday between 10 am and 1 pm so as to reduce the interruption to work. If you stay too long you get to buy tacos from the Mexican Corner. : )

DIY Alumimum Carport

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Sure, you can buy a $3000 carport and bolt it together. Or you can but the welder and materials, Do-It-Yourself and end up with a better carport and some killer skills and a welder.

DIY Light Post for Ring Camera

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Do it Yourself. Aluminum welding is fun and easy. After just a couple of projects, you’ll have paid for the welding machine and be on your way.

DIY Reverse Osmosis Watermaker – Part 2 – Membrane Housing Assembly

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Ok, it’s not magic, but it sure seems like it. John E. Cadotte invented reverse osmosis and nanofiltration chemistry, founded Filmtec in 1977 and died in 2005 at age 80. And now sailors can drink from the oceans and not die. So the next time you raise a glass of RO water. Drink a toast to John.

DIY Reverse Osmosis Watermaker – Part 1 – Overview

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Painting the Boat – Part 15 – Coating Failure

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Every coating job has it’s weaknesses and they will be exacerbated by any deviation from the manufactures recommendations, damage, weather, and time. So do the best you can, and accept that you’ll have to make some repairs. It’s just part of living in a world where work is required to overcome entropy.

Portholes – Installation

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain