It was planned to be a 3 month replacement of the teak decks. Make Yohelah easier to sail and maintain as we age. And we have aged 11 months since this job started.

What powers our sailboat? The sails. How are our sails attached to the boat? They’re either in a track on the mast or attached to…

The bowsprit has been sitting quietly while we accomplished a few other tasks, like making new handrails, cutting starboard (plastic) bases for the 4 dorades,…

Rob and I finished the week by building four big wood gantries. These had two purposes – to support the mast while we painted, and…

Here sits our 58′ mast in a building owned by the Port of Skagit. How did it get here? Well that’s just a bit of…

When they removed the mast from the boat one of the wires caught on the handrail and snapped it. Never had a rigger lose track…

This is a blurry snip out of a video, but all I have of the decks after repairs and before most deck hardware started going…

Since Edensaw sold the sapele planks in one foot increments I bought 9′ rough cut 4/4 planks for the bowsprit. The first step was dimensioning.…

Here again is the teaser pic about where we end up at the end of this blog. I am just blown away about how nice…

We had to access the wood decking under the bowsprit, so we removed it from the boat. A few things became apparent once it was…