Category Archives: Blog Posts

Tips and Tricks -> Onboard Cooking Burrida Recipe French Bread Recipe Lentil Curry Recipe Onion Soup Recipe Tortilla Recipe

Maintenance -> Sails and Rigging -> Fix Spreader Droop

Maintenance -> Sails and Rigging -> New Main Sail

I found the actual sail dimensions from the sailmaker and added them to Maintenance -> Sails and Rigging -> New Roller Furling Jib.

Created a new menu item: Racing. Under this title are 3 new pages: Racing -> Get a PHRF Cert: How to apply for a Performance Handicap Racing Fleet certificate. Racing -> Race Results: Siren’s race results. Racing -> Rules: Everything … Continue reading →

Added 12 new race results up to April 1, 2015 (no joke). Racing -> Results -> 2015-04-01: Keehi Lagoon

I’ve added a photo page dedicated to Siren’s guests and crew. We always have a blast whether partying at the sandbar, sailing the Friday Night Races, spinnaker training sessions, or inter-island cruising. If anyone cares to join, just ask!

Ship Management–>Registration Created a new menu item for everything related to managing your vessel. The first sub-menu contains a quick-reference to renewing the yearly USCG Registration online with forms and links.

Now the Top Paint page contains videos including sanding and paint application techniques. Maintenance->Paint Gelcoat Oil Varnish->Top Paint

The top bar now includes a page introducing Siren, About the Boat. After all, this site is more about her than the author…

The free server I was using to host my website (000webhost.com) was having issues as web traffic picked up. Slow reaction time, inconsistent performance, pages not loading, that sort of thing. So I guess I’ll have to scale up and … Continue reading →

A collection of my favorite books. Maintenance, Knowledge and Novels.

I have added Amazon links to the specific products I have used and use on my boat. This way I don’t have to describe in detail the items I bought; Simply click on the links to get the technical details … Continue reading →

Expenses / Cost –> 2014 Costs

Maintenance –> Electrical –> Electrical Diagrams

The Trips page now has a link to download the .kml file to view all of Siren’s trips in Google Earth or OpenCPN.

http://sailingmagazine.net/article-1395-inside-‘all-is-lost’-from-a-trio-of-cal-39s-to-teaching-redford-to-sail.html Inside ‘All is Lost’ From a trio of Cal 39s to teaching Redford to sail 2013 October 15 by ERIN L. SCHANEN It’s a safe bet that viewers have never seen a movie like the survival-at-sea film “All is … Continue reading →

Trips –> 11/2014: Molokai Trip –> Day 1 Trips –> 11/2014: Molokai Trip –> Day 2 Trips –> 11/2014: Molokai Trip –> Day 3

Maintenance –> Sails and Rigging –> New Halyard

Now you can see the cost breakdown for painting the boat. Maintenance -> Paint Gelcoat Oil Varnish –> Bottom Paint (edit) Maintenance -> Paint Gelcoat Oil Varnish –> Top Paint (edit)

Expenses -> 2013 Costs

Links –> Sail Trim Video

Updated results finally came out. They are now posted under “Races.”

Trips –> 10/2014 Maui Trip

Tips and Tricks –> Onboard Cooking

Maintenance –> Engine -> Removing the Injection Pump

Maintenance –> Deck Hardware –> Anchor Locker Latch

At the bottom of Trips –> Tahiti you can now find a log of our preparations and problems leading up to the trip.

Changed all links from the format: sailorslifeforme.com/maintenance/maintenance-engine/maintenance-engine-manual.php to: sailorslifeforme.com/maintenance/engine/manual.php

Maintenance –> Engine –> Removing the Injector Pump I’ve only added pictures and captions so far. Details forthcoming.

Maintenance –> Engine –> Bleeding the Bleedin’ Perkins Troubleshooting procedures included.

After a filter change, a full bleeding procedure is not required. I’ve updated the last steps of the “Replace Fuel Filters” section to explain the simpler method I now use.

Races –> 2014-07-11: Ala Wai Races –> 2014-07-25: Ala Wai Races –> 2014-08-01: Ala Wai

Trips –> SF (Returned)

Trips –> Big Island Trip –> Day 1 through Day 17

The static side menu was getting too long. Now, with the drop-down functionality, the entire structure can be seen on one page.

Trips -> Kauai Trip -> Day 1 Trips -> Kauai Trip -> Day 2 Trips -> Kauai Trip -> Day 3 Trips -> Kauai Trip -> Day 4 Trips -> Kauai Trip -> Day 5 Trips -> Kauai Trip -> … Continue reading →

Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 7 Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 8

Trips -> Tahiti -> Formalities

Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 6

Trips -> Tahiti -> Food and Water -> Burrida Recipe

Tips and Tricks -> Climb The Mast Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 5

Tahiti -> Food and Water -> Tortilla Recipe

Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 1 Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 2 Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 3 Trips -> Big Island Trip -> Day 4

Trips -> Tahiti -> Food and Water -> Onion Soup Recipe Trips -> Tahiti -> Food and Water -> Lentil Curry Recipe

Tahiti -> Food and Beverage -> French Bread Recipe

With the move to a new server and the process of importing, a few links became broken. For instance: sailorslifeforme.com/tahiti became sailorslifeforme.com/?id=”235″ or something like that. Now all links make sense. The image links were also broken and had to … Continue reading →

The free blog site I’ve been using at wordpress.COM was too limiting. Formatting was a pain in the arse since the css definitions cannot be edited by the web author. So wordpress.ORG it is! It’s slightly more complicated and I … Continue reading →

Tahiti!!! -> Cost Tahiti!!! -> Crew Tahiti!!! -> Equipment Tahiti!!! -> Food and Water Tahiti!!! -> Itinerary Tahiti!!! -> Personal Geaar Tahiti!!! -> Reference/Links Tahiti!!! -> Route Tahiti!!! -> Watch Rotation Tahiti!!! -> Weather Tahiti!!! -> What to Expect