There’s railing for drapes in the boat, possibly for indoor fun showers or just privacy. We need none of the latter. So what can we do – something something Hue. Hue may be the original smart home light systems.I know they’re not perfect, ask any nerd on reddits homeautomation subs, but I was already invested…
Author: Peter
Not getting glued to the TV, part 2
Bazoinks. 12$ worth of USB powered lightning Velcro’ed to the back, powered by the TV.
Molle, the spectacular webs you sow
Molle is a pretty neat system even though most may find it too tacticool. If you don’t know about Molle, or PALS, or Alice, those are system for webbing packs and pouches together in a sturdy configuration. Military stuff. While not in the military I can still appreciate systems. What’s more, I found a Molle…
Fridge wiz
I don’t like the gaudy brown faux wood our kitchen all-entailing living room is made of. To mix things up until we decide to replace it all with something tasteful that doesn’t reminesse of the private jets of oil-princes we’re going to start small. Hi Fridge! Bye fridge. Hello Fridge 2.0
Outdoor flooring, part 1
Ah yeah, it’s classy-up time. Something you see on many of them fancy boats are outdoor wood. Doesn’t make much sense to me, dead wood degrades with water and there’s a whole lot of water – on water, which is why plastic makes more sense but what do I know. Some of the outdoor wood…
Antenna config
This is not the actual WiFi antenna. But it is glorious. Will mount the WiFi antenna and bullet on the other side. Just wanted to show off the radio/TV antenna. The WiFi antenna I have in store will be mooching off of that sweet internet anywhere 5-10 km away from our boat. It’ll be our lifeline….
Surf ace
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaw yeah. Running alongside my plan to classy up the patio I figured I’d start mixing up the near omnipotent white plastic with some contrasting black surfaces. And later wood. Started with a scrub. Bought a surfboard anti-slip pad and cut it into submission shape. Done. After this, step 2 if you will, the flooring…
Gas, Spitfire
Look at this weathered engine remote control. What kind of life has it lived? A sailors life I bet. Let’s do this. First of, take it off. Secondly let’s restore it back to life. So much better. I mean look at it. Adding some faux carbon fiber. Was it actual carbon fiber this boat would…
Kitchen tiles
Ugh. That wood. So gaudy. Let’s mix it up a bit with, I don’t know, some class. Ordered a couple of stone panels. Partially layed out for reference here: Measuring. Masking. Cutting. Filing. All that tedious stuff makes me thirsty. And we’re off. Anchor steam seems so boat appropriate. Anyways, work in progress. Done for…
Swedifying part 2
I wanted to save this for last, when it’s all said and done, but the boat was asking for it before it could be said: it needs that Swedification. How else can people know that I’m special and unique? Oh, and ignore the boats name. We are renaming her, him, it after our beloved and late…
Indoor flooring
The boat has 3 beds in 2 quarters. 1 bed is the sofa, where the table can come down to make a frame. We don’t need that many beds, What we do need is a wardrobe. Smaller one anyways. So we tossed out a bed. Then work began. Part railing system installed (no photos), and…
Survey time!
Part of buying a boat is having it looked at for 500$, after a fee of 450$ to take it out of the water (cost varies). If you take it out and find some surprises that weren’t in the description, and decide that it’s not worth it, you’ve only lost about a grand for looking…