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I’ve had persistent leaks where the pilot house cabin top (roof) joins the cabin sides. While I already knew the sides and top weren’t well attached in places, I’ve discovered the problem doesn’t just

I like the Beta well enough. I especially like having the oil sump pump built in, though I’ll note that the handle kept rattling off until I loktite-ed it. I’m also glad I installed the remote oil-fil

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Moonlight (Vega Voyager) is back in the water after another long period of refit. I’ve uploaded a set of photos showing the new anchor platform and windless. I’ll post more photos of the refit as I ca

Thank you Rick! We don’t say that enough, especially if we don’t get to get to see you at a rendezvous. I rather like groups.io. Having just one site on the WillardBoats.org would be nice, but I suspe

Just a thought, but you may want to keep the line as the weak link in the system. Better a section of the line parts than the arms get ripped off the boat. Might also do to add another, unstressed, re

Moonlight’s mast is a solid lamination of CVG fir. I wasn’t worried at all about weight reduction, so the complication of a box section didn’t make sense. I figured the weight above would tamp down th

My mast is down currently. It’s a new mast a friend built for me a few years ago, but it works with the old shrouds, so the height must be reasonably close to original. It’s hinged a foot or two above

If you haven’t drained, flushed and replaced your coolant in a year or so I’d start there. Needs to happen anyway, and might solve the overheating problem.

My cable steering system crapped out a couple of years ago. I opted to replace the cable and install a new Intelisteer/Octopus drive system. I don’t think it cost me much more than $1K and I was able

Looks like it’s going to be a Voyager fest: four 30’s and 40’! Really looking forward to it. Thanks, Rick, for pulling this together. -Sean

Is anyone concerned that toilet paper and paper towels are pretty much designed to disentigrate quickly? Don’t know if it’d be much of a problem for lube oil, but I’d be really worried about microfibr

Thumbs up on going with a full length bench. My Voyager has a small lift up plywood seat. I find that on a hot summer day, if the sun is coming through the window, I want to sit further inboard to get

Here’s what it looks like on my 30’ Voyager, looking up at the port aft salon corner. The ‘glass of the cabin sides turns inboard about 3” inches all the way around. The formed plywood of the salon ro

I need to replace the Big T steering steering system on Moonlight. The current rotary drive unit moves the rudder to starboard just fine, but won’t engage to port. It’s only half broken, but the missi

My W30 Voyager has a wooden strip on the back of edge of the door that’s about ¾” ticker than the door, with the extra width extending inboard (toward the cabin side). The aft edge of the door frame h

I’ve posted a pic of the fuel transfer/polisher set up I’ve installed on Moonlight (W30). It has five parts: 1. Reverso 2-port intake manifold (upper right) 2. Racor separator (middle) 3. Reverso fuel

I took the fake smoke stack off my Voyager to fix a persistent leak. Now I’ve decided not to put it back. Does anyone want it? It’s got a teak bracket to lower the mast in to, and opens up for storage

Make sure the yard knows you're going to pull the shaft. I didn't and they backed me right up against a shed wall. Fortunately the shed owner was understanding and let me drill a hole in the wall to p

Has anyone tried moving the galley down into the salon on a Voyager 30? It seems like the narrow cabinet on the starboard side is underutilized, so I was wondering about installing the galley there. P