Outfitting Gallery

Velella's Drift

An account of Velella's voyage from Seattle to New York via Panama, 2009-2011

Outfitting Gallery

Some of the recent boat projects we’ve been keeping busy with in L.A. :

: Companionway screen

: Spliced fender whips

: Cockpit awning

: Lee cloth (sea berth)

: Bilge pump switch

: Nessie helping Prescott

: Repainting engine parts

: New self-steering vane!!

: New light air sail (A-spinnaker)

: Headed to the haul out

: Dolphin-watching on the way to haul out

: Velella being lifted (with Nessie inside!)

: Installing the SSB ground plate

: Hose-down on the hard

: Papa did all the real work.

: Velella in the slings

: Prescott installing SSB wiring

: With Papa after a long yardwork day

: Dinner out during haul-out weekend

: Sanded and cleaned decks

: Headed back to MDR after splashing

: Installing shock tie-backs for lazy jacks to prevent sail chafe

: Halfway up the mast

: Installing new radar reflector

: Reparing tear in genoa sail

: Nessie helps with sewing projects

: New riding sail I designed and sewed!

: Nessie helping Prescott with wiring

: SSB intricacies

: Prescott’s thinking face

: Prescott’s other thinking position

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ogm wrote @ October 21, 2010 at 3:15 am

guess i need some captions on most of those pix..thx for sharing..mom

CaptCleary wrote @ October 21, 2010 at 3:38 am

I did caption them… not sure why they’re not showing up. I’ll try again in a bit.

Papa wrote @ October 21, 2010 at 8:58 am

Thx for the update. Apprec the pix. Looks like lot more fun was had back in MDR, after Redondo Beach.

KUTGW

Proudly,
Papa

Caitlin wrote @ October 22, 2010 at 12:58 am

in “prescott and the SSB wiring” … are his pants split? and i know someone with the same underwear… not naming any names… not that i was looking… awkward.

velella is beautiful. what a work of love.

CaptCleary wrote @ October 22, 2010 at 1:15 am

yes and yes. and thank you : )

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