Cruising comments

When you are tied to shore life seems to get in the way. All kinds of demands on my time that I keep allowing to interfere with my maintenance schedule. Work, family, friends it all adds up sneaking time away until you look back and see how little you have accomplished. They all [...]

I found very little information on the web about barient winches.  So with the information I did find I started to rebuild my winches.  Now that I have accomplished rebuilding my barient winches I am creating a website to help you gain some experience before you start on your barient winches.  There are web resources, [...]

 
I finally got some time off work and bought an 18V impact wrench (by Ryobi).  I needed it to remove the winches off of the mast.  There is no telling how long they have been on there.  But I broke two tips removing three winches.  That could give you an idea why I needed the [...]

Several months ago I started my first annual maintenance on my jib sheet winches.  I got one apart and found rusted gears, and some pawls that where frozen.  My brother has a machinist friend that wanted to take on the challenge of trying to free the pawls without hurting any part.
Since this is [...]

Last night I received my new FilterBOSS model DFP500FG. Very cool! They packed it very well in blown in place foam in plastic bags. They even ship it under vacuum so you can see if any of the fittings have loosened. It seems bigger than I remember in the boat show. [...]