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Salt & Tar: Ep.178- The Art of Lashing
Lashing, serving, leathering, hole drilling, and wiring! Michael's still here helping us serve and leather our various chafe points in the rigging. Garrett lashes our solar array into place atop the davits while I catch up on a little souping/brightwork. W...
Salt & Tar: Ep.177- Solar Framing
Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer you can reach us here: saltandtarcrew@gmail.com. Let us know your experience and what you’re comfortable doing. We’ll get back to you as soon as we...
Salt & Tar: Ep.176- Does This Look Ridiculous?
The project that never ends, it goes on and on my friends! The boat build as a whole is coming along so nicely but it is still far from over. One piece of the puzzle comes to a close and another begins. Thanks for stepping on board with us for this episode...
Salt & Tar: Ep.175- Windlass (pt. 2) Bolting it Home
Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer you can reach us here: saltandtarcrew@gmail.com. Let us know your experience and what you’re comfortable doing. We’ll get back to you as soon as we...
Salt & Tar: Ep.174- Windlass (pt.1) Alignment
The windlass has been rebuilt for some time. Now the skies are clear to drill some holes through the deck and dive into getting this installed. So much of every project is making sure everything aligns. Now that we are counting down the days to leaving the...
Salt & Tar Update: 100 Day Countdown
100 days! Yup, we are going to give it our all. We’ve had so many ‘last push’ moments and this feels like the legit LAST push. Again, Rediviva will not be 100% complete but we can’t sit at a dock forever. We have just received our last sail and tha...
Salt & Tar: Ep.173- Chasing Leaks
I’m going to test your attention span with this one. It’s long with quite a bit of talking as we discover some not so lovely issues with our 40 year old motor. The previous owner called her King of the Shit we might be changing this to King of taking a...
Salt & Tar: Ep.172- Bending the Mizzen
Bending a sail: to secure a sail to a spar before hoisting. Bend On ~ To tie onto or fasten. Garrett completes the last of the changes and additions to the boom and gaff. Persevering through the cold, damp weather. Then together we work on permanently secu...
Salt & Tar: Ep.171- Lighted Boat Parade
My sister, Ellen, and her husband, Casey, join us in a little holiday celebration. This is the first ever lighted boat parade that Garrett and I have ever participated in and it was a ton of fun. We even got second place! Thanks for watching everyone! ~R...
Salt & Tar: Ep.170- Ocean Medicine
I could stare at the ocean indefinitely. We got so lucky with the day and so lucky that one of our volunteers lives close enough to take us sailing! Michael, who has done our ratlines among other things, has a Bristol Channel Cutter 28 in Pillar Point Harb...
Salt & Tar: Ep.169- Another Sail!
Excited to get another sail we jump into getting the changes on the mizzen boom and gaff done. The episode leaves us watching paint and soup dry. Can’t wait to mount the davits and absolutely can’t wait to get every sail fully rigged up! Leave a comm...
Salt & Tar: Ep.168- Stackin’ Dimes
Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer you can reach us here: saltandtarcrew@gmail.com. Let us know your experience and what you’re comfortable doing. We’ll get back to you as soon as we...
Salt & Tar: Ep.167- Smells Like a New Sail
Another sail arrives! Our staysail is the second out of our four working sails to be completed. Thanks to M&H Bartles, Sailmakers. We keep at a few smaller projects and when the skies clear Garrett gets back to the bigger current project which is mount...
Salt & Tar: Ep.166- Potty Talk
We get down to business in this episode. Installing our Nature’s Head, a marine toilet. The days of walking to the shorehead will be in the past! Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer y...