http://syzygysailing.com 3 fellas taking a 40-foot sailboat around the world Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:01:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent the last two days drilling 36 holes in our mast, and I plan on drilling another 20. Not big holes; just quarter-inch holes. I'm installing mast steps, so that, from now on, getting up our mast won't be a lengthy/cumbersome affair. You never know what you may need ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/77 . . . is so much more fun than working on the boat all month long. The footage below is brief and uneventful (battery died) but the sail itself was fantastic. We had great wind, and after an hour or so it cleared up and was sunny and ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/71 So the first three times we sailed Jon, Jonny, and I went out by ourselves. This turned out to be a smart idea, because three times in a row we went out and broke something. On July 4th we broke our reefing hook--broke it right in half (the metal was corroded ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/70 What was it like to go sailing for the first time on my boat? It was a feeling not easily expressible in normal sentences; rather, much more elusively affective. And sensory. But read this and maybe you'll catch a breeze of what I felt that day. Liberating. ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/68 Usually I think of myself as a somewhat intelligent individual. I did really well studying Chemical Engineering. I scored in the top 5% nationally on the GRE. I scored higher on a reading comprehension test than all the English teachers at my school. My parents tell ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/67 Why is there water coming out of our cabinets??? We overfilled the water tanks and water came out of the vent hose which is nicely positioned in the cabinets right above the brand new stereo we just installed. When I looked over and saw our new radio hidden behind a waterfall ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/65 I feel that this event merits a second, more detailed telling. Here's how it went down from my viewpoint: I'm standing in the galley at about 10pm, all is quiet and still in the marina, and I'm lost deep in thought about why our engine refuses to start (which was a ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/66 "Fuck this hose!" It was 1 AM, and I'd been working for 17 straight hours on our damn water tanks. The hose we'd bought was inflexible yet annoyingly curvy, and slightly larger than our old hose, making it extremely difficult to shove it onto the fittings. One fitting that was ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/64 I'm here! After months and months of anticipation, I'm at the boat, eager and excited, a teenager at prom. It's especially exciting, because for months I'd been listening to Matt and Jonny talk about everything they were doing with the boat, and I felt so left out, missing great ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/63 At 6pm wednesday afternoon, as we were sailing out of the Berkeley Marina, there was substantial reason to be proud of ourselves. We had replaced all of our standing rigging--the very important wires that hold up the mast--by ourselves. We had replaced the bearings in our supposedly un-maintainable ... http://syzygysailing.com/archives/54