The Good Life; Can You Help?

Some of you may know there has been a drop off in my blogs recently. This has been due to my wife and I  currently cruising on the boat, and most projects for this boat are done for the year.
I'm asking for some help here. Some of you out there who visit my site may have a project of your own that you have written up, and would allow me to publish it on my blog site.
Just drop me an email to the address in my header with either a link to your project, or you may send the article through with the email. Full acknowledgment of the writer will be given.
Enjoy your cruising; and if stuck doing projects, I hope you will have the time to write it up and send me a link.
We also blog about innovative boating products. Do you know of a new one just released? Have you purchased a new product recently that has changed the way you do your boating? We look forward to hearing about these as well.

Finished Teak Grate

Marke Corke has finished his teak grate and I wrote about his cutting jig here.

Hop on over to Marke Corke's site to read about his write up of this wonderful wood working project. Plenty of details are there, along with lots of photo's.

Dry Case for your iThing

Keeping your iPad or even your iThing water proof as we use these items more and more, in the boating environment, has become a challange of sorts. When I move to an iPad for navigation, as back up to my Furuno, this might be the sort of device I use to keep it dry. You can check out most of their details on their web site here.
Also iMarine Apps has just published a post on other forms of iThing protectors. Hop on over to his blog site here to view other choices

Handmade Handrails

Capt'n Pauley's Vitual Boat Yard has replaced his mahogany handrails with a less maintenance material, polymer lumber. He says.. "Polymer Lumber is strong, doesn't absorb water, can be worked with regular woodworking tools, and doesn't require finishing."
Hop on over to his web site to read about why he made the hand rails from this material, and how he constructed them.
I think this material he uses is the same as starboard, on which he wrote a post about here. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Low Cost Jigs

Over at Dock Six Chronicles, Brian has an excellent article on a jig he made to do some scarfing.

He puts together an excellent explanation with photo's and then follows that up with an explanation of a jig to drill perfect holes to line up for a pin rail.
Hop on over to his blog site to read his "how to" on the jigs.