Life’s roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors.
Starlink vs T-Mobile Hotspot on a Boat
Elon Musk: “Our Satellites launching in next few months have inter-satellite laser links, so no local downlink needed.” Micael Sheetz: “How does transmitting into a country without a local downlink work on the regulatory side?” Elon Musk: “They can shake their fist at the sky.”
Keeping Water Out of the Boat’s Fuel
Abortion, immigration, gun rights and inflation can all take a back seat. I want to know what government idiot that is bringing us these pathetic fuel tanks, and we need a good old tar and feathering.
Variable Pitch Controller Repairs and Testing
This is not a problem for quitters. If your going to quit, then you are saying there is nothing more you can learn, and nothing more you can think of to try, and there is no one else that you can approach for new ideas. A quitter is a person that quits before exhausting all of the possibilities. So don’t … Read More
A Challenging Trip to Kerr Lake with Excellent Outcomes
The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment. –Antonio Brown
Problems Pitching the Prop and Learning to Steer
Do you enjoy solving problems? Then you need to build something that has never been built before. Make most of the parts from scratch. Buy other parts second hand and not in working order and then fix them. And invite others to join you and you’ll make friends too.
Raising Sails – Part 5 – Adding Parrels to a Junk
I think we are all born with the desire to try new things. How else would we learn to walk? And at some point school, work, colleagues, and even church and family press us into a mold that we did not select. People ask me why I choose Junk Sails, I tell them they lend themselves well to DIY construction … Read More
Smurf’s DIY River Boat
Looking for a great lost cost and comfortable way to travel the rivers? Let Smurf show you how.
Junkyard Power Steering Pump for Junk Sailboat
It was time to build in some redundancy for our power steering system on the boat. Which actually has nothing to do with steering but is used by our variable pitch controlled propeller. And many thanks to Dan Sparks and Mark Sims.
Raisings Sails – Part 4 – Mistakes Were Made
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw …and somedays, that is all you get. Thanks to Dustin, Dan, and Alexandria for hanging in there. It was fantastic to see the foresail up, even if it was put together wrong. –Doug