Projects

Our month in the shipyard is finally over and we are back at our slip with the David B looking beautiful. Over the month of February we got a lot accomplished. I spent most of the month working on sanding, filling, painting and oiling. We had amazing weather for painting and I took advantage...
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A couple of years ago we replaced our old Babbitt stern bearing with a new high-tech plastic. Last week we discovered when we removed the propeller that the new bearing had shifted and was somewhat chewed up inside the housing. This was one of those projects we had not planned on doing since we...
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We’ve been pretty busy on the David B this week. While we still have four months until we start our 2010 cruising season, we’ve got a lot of winter maintenance to do to be ready for our first trip in May. We like to haulout the David B once a year. We usually do...
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This afternoon our friend Tom Riley, a naval architect, came to the boat to do some more measurements of the pilothouse and the deck, and discuss some of the drawings he’s been doing for us for the Great Pilothouse Rebuild that will be coming up in 2011 or 2012. Tom started the preliminary drawings back...
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We’re getting started on the Great Pilot House Rebuild. If you’ve been on the boat in the last couple of years you’ve probably heard me talk about the Great Pilot House Rebuild. We’ve wanted to do this project for some time now and as all of you have pointed out, it’s going to be...
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Jeffrey just finished adding a new touch to the website. Live Chat. Whenever either Jeffrey or myself is at the computer we’ll be logged into to answer questions you might have about any or our cruises. We hope to hear from you soon! You can can log into our Live Chat on our website...
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Last night we launched our new website. We redesigned the website to make it easier to for you to find information about our cruises and to see what it is like to cruise with us aboard the David B. We have a new photo gallery with pictures from most of our cruises from...
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We are often asked what we do in the off-season. Do we take the winter off and go some place warm? Do we spend our winters reading books and sleeping in? While we might do some skiing at Mt. Baker and Whistler the answers are, that we mostly do work on the boat. We...
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Time 0844 Position 48 45.35N 122.30.26W More winter work. Now we’re working on the main engine — The Washington-Estep 3-cylinder diesel. These are the exhaust and intake valves that were recently rebuilt by Old Tacoma Marine. For those of you who are interested in such things, these valves are in cages that...
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Time: 0845 Position: 48 45.25N 122 30.26W Just a few more thoughts about the projects… I really love to make the improvements that require the cognative work as well as the physical. For example, how does one build a system to skim the oil from the surface of the bilge water,...
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