Custom Mounting my VHF Radio in my Montgomery 17

A VHF radio is pretty much a neccesity on a sailboat and I needed to install one on my Montgomery 17. I didn't want mine to take up any extra space in my already small cabin so I decided to mount it into a bulkhead. In order to do this I needed to build a little wooden box frame mount it in. I did this in my woodworking shop pretty easily really.

I made of a video of my little project, have a look at it.

Things to do on my Florida Keys trip!

I keep finding a places to go and things to do in the Florida Keys on forums and websites and I never write them down or anything. So I figured I would make a blog post that I could easily add to whenever I am online that could "store" this information on. It could be useful still to anyone interesting in cruising the Keys!

Snorkeling
Looe Key, Sombrero Key


Anchorages



Marinas
Bahia Honda Marina
Bahia Honda State Park has a great marina and launch ramp
South Dade Marina...http://southdademarina.com/.... and had the Suburban/trailer stored there for the last few weeks of our spring trip and they are probably the lowest priced storage/ramp over there and good people.
Marina at Plantation Key is great. Staff are good to deal with, cleanest showers on our trip. You can leave leave your trailer and truck there. Nice area to sail in, easy to cross over to the ocean side.

Refinishing my Tiller Handle on my Montgomery 17

When I bought my little Montgomery 17 the previous owner didn't bother to varnish the tiller handle for the past few years and it was showing. I decided to make that one of my first projects on the boat so I took action. I wanted it to be done for my "shakedown cruise" to just make the boat look a little better, and it did!

I made a short video of my work here.



I will be doing more and more work and videos on my little Montgomery 17 soon. Next I will probably be mounting my new VHF radio and that will take building a little mounting box so that I can mount it in a bulkhead. I should be doing a video on it and posting that soon so check back!

Time to get back to Blogging!

Great news everyone! I am getting back to blogging, uploading videos, and working on my new website Sailography.

I just purchased a new computer since I haven't been able to get online or post videos with my old computer for what seems like a year now, no telling how long it has been. I am ready to get back to it and this new computer I bought is a workhorse that should make everything I do easier on the internet, especially uploading videos to Youtube.

I just ran a test today with my video camera and uploading a video to Youtube on this new computer and it worked easily and flawlessly, much easier than on my old computer. I have a video that I will be posting in the next couple of days where I refinish the tiller on my Montgomery 17. I actually filmed the video this past spring but my computer was down so I never got to upload it. Be looking out for it in the next couple of days.

I have some things planned that I will be tackling soon. More videos of course, since they are my favorite. I am getting ready to take my Montgomery 17 down to the Florida Keys soon so I will be uploading videos of my preperations for the adventure. I will be doing videos on things like installing a swim ladder on the stern of the boat, installing my solar power system, provisioning, storage onboard, maybe my electrical system and much more. Basically whatever I think could be useful I will be putting into a video since it is so much easier for me to do it now I will be much more likely to upload videos more frequently.

Just thought I would share that with everyone, so check back regularly to see what is going on. I am also dilligently working on Sailography.com every day so check it out too, I really think the information I am adding is very interesting, helpful and a great time killer for these cold winter days!

Sailing and Such "The Site" is back!!!!

I have finally put the old Sailing and Such website back online!!!! I am working on getting the old URL back "SailingandSuch.com" but I am having trouble with it.

But you can go check it out at here, Sailing and Such.