| Type | Subject | Comments |
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 | Bitter Sweet
Posted on Sep 12, '07 8:06 PM for everyone
"Hello All... This will be a bitter sweet weekend for me...I'll be renaming and christening the "Dreamer" and having a final farwell for my good friend Mark... The Ballad was his dr..."
| 1 |
| Cleats
Posted on Sep 11, '07 9:13 AM for everyone
"Hi to all: I was tired of varnishing or oiling the teak wooden pieces that are part of the forward and aft cleats--I had even tried epoxy-coating them, without lasting results--so ..."
| 0 |
| Hull anodes
Posted on Sep 10, '07 2:07 PM for everyone
"Hi to all: Does anyone out there have a hull anode on his/her boat? (It's usually the turtle-shaped zinc anode where you attach the bonding cable.) Most people attach the negative ..."
| 1 |
| Exciting sailing
Posted on Sep 5, '07 11:08 AM for everyone
"Dear X-79: Thanks for your exciting sailing photos. They're especially inspiring to someone whose boat has been on the hard since May and has lost many a windy weekend fooling arou..."
| 0 |
| Refrigerator.
Posted on Aug 13, '07 3:35 PM for everyone
"Good Day All... A quick update on progress on the Vagabond Dreamer... Most of the hard work is now done...just the small projects now... It has been VERY hot the last few weeks...1..."
| 9 |
| Repowering with an electric motor
Posted on Aug 9, '07 4:16 PM for everyone
"Our Albin Ballad still has its original MD6 Volvo inboard, but it has not been behaving very well recently, and it may be necessary to remove the engine for a rebuild. The cost wil..."
| 23 |
| 11. og sidste rejsebrev
Posted on Aug 3, '07 8:27 PM for everyone
"Hej Alle sammen Dette er s책 det sidste brev fra mig om den fantastiske tur, som vi har haft rundt om Nordatlanten. Vi kom godt af sted fra Dover med ca. 3-4 knobs medstr첩m og en h책..."
| 0 |
| Teak cockpit parts from Lidköping Båtsnickeri, Sweden.
Posted on Aug 3, '07 2:43 PM for everyone
"We bought the locker lids from http://www.lidkopingsbatsnickeri.se/ in the beginning of 2007, and after finding out (as described elsewhere) that the aft lid was not rectangular be..."
| 28 |
| Work, work and more work.
Posted on Jul 24, '07 4:05 PM for everyone
"Hi to all: "Moments of Clarity" is on the hard and will remain so till early September. Upon discovering that one of the previous owners had removed the gelcoat and had applied not..."
| 10 |
| Fabric Seat coverings
Posted on Jul 23, '07 9:38 PM for everyone
"Ballad 114 - Salamander - still has the original seat fabrics which are in good condition. Can anyone else claim that? Until 2005 we still had the original engine too, until the ou..."
| 0 |
| 10. Rejsebrev
Posted on Jul 14, '07 4:57 PM for everyone
"10 Hej Alle sammen Turen til England gik med frisk og hård halvvind, hvorfor de 1200 sm kunne tilbagelægges på kun 9½ døgn. Ud for det nordlige af Biscayen fangede vi en ”big eye t..."
| 0 |
| Curtains
Posted on Jul 11, '07 7:21 PM for everyone
"Hello All... I'm getting ready to get curtains made and was wondering how the originals were down...there wern't any in the boat when we got it. Does anyone have some picts that mi..."
| 7 |
| Little Bit #1287
Posted on Jul 2, '07 6:03 AM for everyone
"Hello all, I am now mostly finished with all interior carpentry on Little Bit, Albin Ballad Hull 1287. I've posted the recent pictures under the Pictures link on the main page. I w..."
| 7 |
| Dreamer Update
Posted on Jun 18, '07 10:13 PM for everyone
"Hello all... Just a quick update...work continues on the Dreamer...Finished the AC unit and it works very nicely even in the Gulf heat and humidity. Took her out on Sunday for a sh..."
| 0 |
| Instruments Hatch Cover
Posted on Jun 18, '07 3:59 PM for everyone
"Hello, We are in the continuous proces of restoring and upgrading our hullnr 978 Albin Ballad "Aemilia III". Work done over the past 2 years include: -drying and injecting the deck..."
| 2 |
| 9. rejsebrev fra Love
Posted on Jun 16, '07 6:34 PM for everyone
"Hej Alle sammen, Vi fik vores sejladstilladelse fra Den Dominikanske Republik uden st첩rre problemer og uden afkr챈vning af bestikkelse. Om aftenen den 26. april sejlede vi 첩st p책 mo..."
| 0 |
| Testing, testing, testing
Posted on Jun 12, '07 5:10 PM for everyone
"Dearest balladeers A concerned participant of Ballad Exchange has asked me in a mail, if something is wrong, since he has not received the usual amount of postings from Ballad Exch..."
| 5 |
| A different world
Posted on Jun 6, '07 10:37 AM for everyone
"Hi to all: Last Sunday, I had a-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be aboard a Bruce Farr 52 One Design during a short race. I was there strictly as a guest, which means that I got ..."
| 0 |
| boat for sale
Posted on May 17, '07 6:57 PM for everyone
"anyone looking for a great boat?? Check out our advertisement..."
| 0 |
| Sad News
Posted on May 17, '07 4:44 PM for everyone
"Hello All... I have some sad news for the Ballad community... Mark passed away suddenly yesterday morning. He was a great friend. He was very excited and proud of the work we had d..."
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