A Change To my Morgan Sailboat

I've decided to make a change to my blog - not that I have done much of it lately. And that perhaps is because everyone can whine about the current idiot in the Whitehouse - whoever that may be. No, instead I am going to concentrate and write about something much closer to me and personal. My sailboat.

A couple of years ago we purchased a 1969 Morgan 28 sailboat. That sounds like an old boat and it is. But we have embarked on making her new again. We have already taken a lot of steps and made a lot of changes to improve her, but I've noticed the updates never end. They may not be as critical for safety or usability, but they are needed nevertheless for comfort and enjoyment. It is time consuming, frustrating and pleasing all at the same time. I am not overly mechanical. I have a desk job and am pretty much a geek. So my learning has been slow but steady.

So my plan is to create a blog for each new chore I embark on. It may be trying a new product, building something or just basic maintenance. A blog of diary would be a bit boring so I will try to teach you what I've learned (if anything) and learn from you at the same time. Some of it may appeal to you, some not. I feel the same way about the bulk of my chores on the boat. Some I just curse from start to finish others, I search for imperfections I want to correct.

Well that's the plan at least. I will start adding a blog once a week going forward. Hopefully it will be a beneficial for you. I know it will be for me. So before we get too far into this world, I want to give you a little insight into who you are dealing with here on this page. I'd like to say I am a blue collar "done it all" but I'm not. Like I mentioned earlier, I am pretty much a middle-aged geek. I spend most of my life in front of a computer screen. Most of what I do is too boring to write about. The garbageman still has the edge. I need to learn about my boat and learn how to do manual labor. For those of you who are PC and cringe at real life honesty, well pretty much, piss off. If you want honesty, I'll try to give it, good or bad. I have a lot of short comings, but manual labor isn't one of them.

So anyway, here we go. I will do my best and hope you will appreciate the tellings of a guy who has no idea what he is doing but is doing it anyway - just because...