Author: coffeeadmin
Moving the Staysail Sheets, Fairleads and Cam-Cleats
This last weekend I moved the port and starboard fairleads and cam-cleats for the staysail sheets.I’ve posted 4 photos. The first is a full photo of the starboard side of our Dudley Dix design Cape Henry 21. You can see the cam-cleat mounted to the deck in front of the horn-cleat. This location has had…
The Day After Christmas!
This weekend I removed the hatch cover for the companion way on my sailboat, a Cape Henry 21. I sanded it fair and added a coat of brightwork. I then tore apart my free standing sander and repaired the main belt pulley.The two weekends prior I removed my burned out stove and replaced it with…
Rendering This Season Beeswax Cappings!!
Oct. 9th-10th This last weekend I went through the painstaking process of rendering this seasons bees wax cappings. The process involves a large canning kettle 2/3 full of water, brought up to 190 degrees, and submerging a fine cloth bag full of wax cappings. This is repeated 3 times into the same capping to make…
Labor Day Weekend Sailing “Slough Coot” with Longtime Friends!
Spinning This Seasons Honey!
Our Two Osprey Chicks Are Now Flying!
The two baby Osprey chick don’t look like babies anymore. They started stretching there wing in flight everyday for the last 5 days. In the next few weeks Mom and Dad will be teaching them to hunt.
Harvesting Puget Island Honey
Today we started the process of harvesting honey this week. As you can see there is and escape board placed under the first two honey supers. When the bees leave the super at night to protect the queen they can’t go back up into the supers because the escapes are one way. Tomorrow I will…