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Solo Trip
Trip number “2 and half” was solo, to the Long Harbor beach, and back during sunset. Experimented with motor trim. There are three positions on the Honda BF20. First position maximum speed according to GPS: 16 knots; second position: 17 knots; third position: 18 knots, or about 20 mph. This is just what I calculated…
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Bardick, Trip 2
For our second time out I installed one of the removable passenger seats, so we could provide a friend with a bit of a cruise. (The “trunk” lid folds back and over, and the seat or seats easily bolt to it. This way we have flexible seating for 1 to 4 adults. Any of the…
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Bardick, Trip 1
The maiden voyage! Mixed weather in Ganges Harbour, but a very rewarding, if somewhat damp, trip. About an hour and a half took us around the harbor, some of the islands, including Goat Island near the cove where we have often walked, around Musgrove Point, Scott Point, and a little ways into Long Harbour. Figured…
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Launched!
She is in the water! The splash from the christening is actually visible in this photo, below the bow eye. The control cables are finally in, and adjusted… and even color coordinated. (Many thanks to the good folks at Harbour’s End Marine.) This is a spot in the Salt Spring Marina where she will stay…
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A Final Hurdle
So the boatyard trailer arrived, the boat was loaded without event, and hauled to the public ramp in Ganges. The motor started smoothly… and then wouldn’t respond to the throttle… because the control cables were never installed! Off to the yard to check stock for the needed parts: none available on the island. Time to…
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Christened!
What a difference from the corroded, holed, peeling hull that was plunked down in the dirt of the driveway a year and half ago.The christening was eventful…A tip: do not do as Chapman’s recommends and score your champagne bottle so it will break more easily…. The bottle had exploded, thankfully prevented from distributing glass shrapnel…
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Odds and Ends
Updates are getting a little behind, but in the mean time here is a look at the way work is progressing. It is down to lots of little odds and ends, like hooking up the wiring harness, the VHF antenna, and putting all the tie down straps, padeyes, footman loops and so on in place.…
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Seating and Controls
Progress is happening fast now. The front seating is in, and the Honda control console has been bolted in place and wired to the engine. The PFD’s are visible in the locker under the rear seating platform. That’s a throw bag hanging from the boat hook in the upper right, while it waits for a…
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Paint, Windsheild and more
As you can see in the photo, lots of progress has been made. The deck is painted, the hull license numbers are in place, the Austin Healy windshield is finally on, and the coamings have been been mated to the windshield frame and shaped. Just visible on the port coaming is an 8 foot VHF…
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Interior
Here the boat now, in its present state. The interior painting is almost done. The coaming is rough cut and propped up in place. There’s a tunnel made of vacuum system tubing installed under the starboard gunwale for routing the steering cable and the electrical cables. The seating system is a bit further along, with…