Month: January 2016

Now We’re Cookin’

January 26, 2016

Our Jetboil gimbal mount arrived today from the UK.  Looks like a nice piece of kit!  The bracket that attaches to the bulkhead is slotted so the whole mount can be easily removed when not needed. Funny thing when ordering the gimbal.  I emailed them to check availability and mentioned we were racing to Hawaii

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The Winter “To Do” List

January 19, 2016

It’s winter and Pacific Cup starts in 6 months.  That means it is time to get serious about the To Do list on Spadefoot.  It is so much easier to get things done on Spadefoot with the boat only 30 minutes away versus the preparing Shearwater for crossing oceans when the boat was 3-5 hours

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3D Printing for Spadefoot

January 17, 2016

One of the fun things about owning a custom one-off boat is that you get to do custom things without rules or restrictions.  This has been very true over the past year as we’ve added a retractable sprit and asymmetrical spinnakers.  The sprit is actually part of the original carbon Hoyt jib boom.  The brackets

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Excuse me, Spadefoot, how much do you weigh?

January 2, 2016

Answer – I have no idea. This is a big mystery that will be definitively solved on May 25, 2016. That is the date we are having Spadefoot weighed and measured for a certified PHRF rating needed for Pacific Cup 2016. Ironically, the original owner, Dick Horn, will be doing the weigh-in. The old After

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Spadefoot!

January 1, 2016

It’s time to pull this all together. Some of you know, some of you don’t. Last year, right after Pacific Cup, we bought another boat. It’s a one-off custom Schumacher 28. You can read all about the boat here – Spadefoot. For a time we thought we’d just use Facebook to cover our shenanigans on

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