So much longing. So tired and weary from all of the work we have been preparing to do and doing in order to get Norna ready for sea again. The life of lists is beginning to get crossed off, but it is a struggle nonetheless
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The measurements aren't exact, but it helps to better understand what and how this bed works http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=352049
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A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do
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Continued work in the 1972 Volkswagon Bus. We also are planning on using this bus as our camper and travel wagon to take us back and forth to Norna while up in Maine
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Along with all of the other projects going on aboard Norna, we also need to figure out how to get weather offshore. We do have a SSB aboard and we heard of a way to download weather onto our iPad, an updated version now is that there is no need for the c...
Now that Norna is back in the water, and has swelled up good, it is time to tighten the rig. Today Pete and I are tightening the dead eye rigging, in order to make Norna ready for sailing again
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Our plan is to sail Norna up to Maine and then leave her up there for the winters in colder climate, and to leave her in a building. This leaves us with nowhere to live when we return to Florida for the winters to go back to the woodshop and back to work. ...
Can't stand the deck leaks anymore! They are driving us absolutely mad, but we cannot upkeep it while being in the hot Florida sun. We need to get away from the tropics soon before we find ourselves having to haul again to fix more rot and leaks.
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Back to being floating again. Here is a typical day of chores and continued work on getting her seaworthy while being back on the water
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This rig and many ...
Norna is back on a mooring and back floating again. She swelled up just fine and everything worked as it should. It was nice to have her repaired and back to working order. Next process is to get her ready for Maine
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What more to be launched in the water, than to have a music jam aboard?
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Here is Oasis Boatyard's Website: http://www.oasisboatyardandmarina.com/
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Just a quick update before we launch. The quality is going to be better on this upload, as I am on a normal computer. Trying to use the IPad to upload videos yesterday, and I wasn't impressed by the quality of the upload. I'll try it again in a few days, a...
Let's see if this new way of uploading videos worked :)
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Last minute repairs and improvements before launch
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Last week on the hard!! :)
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Norna is a wood boat, and in order to keep the wood boring worms called torredo worms from eating the bottom of the boat and making swiss cheese out of it, it is a good idea to cover it with copper. Being that Norna is lapstrake, this required shims to bri...
The last of the VW bus woes. Running GREAT NOW!!!! ... Knock on wood!
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Thank you to BoBo for the awesome net work needle! In this episode we are putting a new net on our bowsprit. Here is the process of how to do this
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Love to have fans aboard.
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We do have a lot of rare occurrences happen to us, and sometimes this is a good thing
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Ok, this video made its rounds in the editing rotation!!! Here is the update of what actually happened to the VW bus, or at least what we think is the problem :)
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