November 2016 - DEV_SVDreamChaser

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Hey honey wake up, I smell something burning...

S/V DreamChaser5:30 PM

It got pretty cold this week in Southern Louisiana. I guess I should say that it is all relative but it was down in the mid to high 30...

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Making Yogurt on Board the boat

S/V DreamChaser3:00 PM

We are all fans of yogurt on the boat. We eat it as breakfast with fresh fruit, the kids have it as a mid day snack at times and we use it ...

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Be Nautical - How we whip the ends of a line

S/V DreamChaser6:00 PM

There is a great pleasure I get in doing something in a nautical way, or in a way that shows seamanship (keep snickering down please). This...

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Splicing Anchor chain to Rope (3 strand in this case)

S/V DreamChaser2:00 PM

When we bought DreamChaser the anchor chain was connected to an "eye" screwed into the based on the Anchor Chain locker. The surv...

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How to Varnish - (Part 1) Shooting just shy of perfection

S/V DreamChaser1:00 PM

Classic Sailboat = Varnish jobs. Period. End of Story. No way to Avoid it. But that is ok, if it were not something we anticipated we wou...

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