Preparation When Belle came home with us, she had well-weathered wiring hanging out of the bottom of the mast. The steaming light wires were loose and stripped, as to be wire nutted to the loose and stripped wires poking out of the cabin roof. The VHF wire insulation cracked and the sheild partially showing. We…
When we first got Belle home, my brother and I immediately stepped the mast to see if all the rigging worked. The first thing we noticed was the rear mast rest that came with the boat was just a bit too close to the tabernacle. What I mean is that the mast would not balance…
Since Belle did not come with a trailer, much of why she was so inexpensive, we had to source a trailer to put under her to make her useful to us. Buying a custom trailer was going to be in the $3000 range, 10X what we paid for Belle. Adapting a used trailer was going…
