It's Thanksgiving week here in the USA. Holiday greetings to all my fellow cruisers out there. The guy that supplied our tender also supplied ratcheting tie down straps for it. And these ratchets are wretched! I always feel like they are going to tear my hands up when I'm trying to use them, especially loosening them. Welcome to Mahalo, you strapping beauties (on the right). That's how to do it! There are heavy plastic where you need to touch the units. Nice wide grips. Look at those pathetic ones on the left. I bet in an emergency I couldn't even get them loose! I got the carabiner version, because why not? Even if they got a little loose they still cannot fall off. Plus they will stay attached to Mahalo when the tender is in the water. I trimmed off some extra material, now I'm set! American made to boot!
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Okay, so a minor blog post, minor project. There are a few places on Mahalo where I need a ladder. I found a really nice on at Home Depot, light but really sturdy. I like these ones with the really deep steps. Looking around the lazarette I noticed that this corner would be ideal. There is a storage area behind where the ladder is now, but at the moment I just keep the oil diapers in there, so I don't access them often. I did some thinking about how to mount the ladder. I decided I really didn't want to drill any holes in the walls. Then I remembered I had some of these 3M Command hooks. Really cool product. When applied, they have strength in the direction of the pull. But you can remove them by pushing the opposite direction and they don't leave any mark behind. I had also bought a supply of shock cord, the bull nose rings and the special pliers to crimp the rings. Make your own shock cord! Good stuff.
When we were designing the lazarette in Shanghai, this back wall of the laz had all kinds of possibilities. I got the idea I'd like to have some drawer storage space for small parts. I jumped on Amazon and found a unit I liked, and then had the factory build this space for it. Including the fold down door which acts like a little workbench for the parts. This has already been super useful.
So far I have:
Let's face it, Mahalo is a yacht. And often yachts have original art. We knew we wanted to have some, but it had to be very unique. Here on Bainbridge there is a husband and wife team that own a gallery (www.dangerbainbridge.com) and create a lot of cool art. In fact we have a couple of their pieces in our yard. Kelly makes the glass pieces, and Dave does the metal work. This is the downstairs foyer or landing area (i.e. at the bottom of the stairs, in between the three staterooms. This is a previous hull to ours. Between the four of us, we came up with a unique design. My vision was kind of a cross between an elaborate kelp and a jellyfish. Dave did several drawings and some test metal pieces. He had never made anything resembling a leaf before, so it took some doing, but luckily he is persistent and creative! We took this drawing to China on one of our trips and tried it out for size and look. Love it. Kelly at one of our design meetings. She's feisty. When they finished the piece, and showed us in their gallery, we were just blown away. It is so gorgeous. And right then Deb and I knew we couldn't put it down below where most people would never see it. It would have to go over the salon couch. We did give it a shot downstairs in the foyer. Of course it would look awesome there. But here is where it really belongs! We agreed with Dave that some tweaking was necessary so that it would look like it was always designed to go there. And here is the finished piece solidly mounted on the wall luckily that's 3/4" marine plywood under the veneer. It's one of a kind, green and blue, just beautiful. Just like Mahalo!
The glass pieces have mirrors behind them and thus look amazing with sun coming through the salon windows. Now, what to do about that foyer space down below? A plan is in action, stay tuned! Check out Deb, me, and Mahalo in this well produced HYG video. This was the day we did our "training" with Captain Bob Smith. Inspiring drone footage!
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