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Ganges #363

The suggestion for an adjustable boom gallows is a good one for booms that have a fixed gooseneck. The gallows were originally used on gaffed rigged vessels with sliding goosenecks, or boom jaws. The whole boom was raised when the sail was hoisted, lifting it well out of the gallows. A fixed goosene...

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Barry, beautiful expert work. Thanks for doing the pictures. What kind of engine is that? Your anchor rode system is really interesting. Can you do more pictures/diagrams/explanations of how it works?

Bill
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Thanks for the tips. I would have never thought of oxalic acid. I've used it for many years to bleach wood. We find the granulated variety very easily in California in hardware stores. It's much more effective when mixed into very warm water. It seems a little bit strong for paint, but I'll try a ve...

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My EasyPoxy jade green topsides really need cleaning. What is the best way to do this? My boat is in the water, brushing with boat soap and water isn't doing the job very well. The paint job is about three years old, not expecting miracles, just a clean look.

Bill
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Ganges #363

I've never seen one of those, thanks. I'm going to be looking into one.

Perfect music on the video by the way. One of my all time favorites.

Bill
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Very cool. What kind of autopilot do you have?

East coasters should note, however, that California is entering its third year of drought. Cold and wet January days would be better, overall.

Bill
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Jeff, I voted for fractional rig. The basic reason for me is that is how the boat was designed, and even though there were later factory installed masthead rigs, it seems to me that the mast placement, etc. was designed for the original rig. In practical terms, the fractional rig requires fewer sail...

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Here are pictures of Debbie just before and during her Hawaii trip: http://tritonclass.org/mir/362ta.html Note her 'extensive' offshore equipment. Unfortunately, Debbie just posted on the Triton Yahoo site that Patience broke her mooring in Hawaii, and is still on the rocks. Debbie sold her awhile a...

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There are pictures of the SF Bay one for sale on the Norpac Yachts web site. Beautiful boats, but I'm a little disappointed with the interior layout...not a fan of in-line galleys. Obviously my info that the Sausalito boat was designed and built by the owner was completely wrong. I'm sure it's the s...

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I'm pretty sure this boat was designed and built by the original (and possibly current) owner. This boat is in Sausalito, right? I had a boat in the same harbor 20 years ago and she was there then. Don't know/can't remember the name of the guy. But she looks even better in person, a real sea boat. I...

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If you were to do that, it would be nice to extend the sides and top of the 'new' house into the front part of the cockpit, creating a sheltered space. A good friend has a wooden boat that was built like that and it's really nice. The trade off is that there is no bridge deck, you walk directly into...

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Adam,

Thanks for introducing me to the Blue Chip 30, really beautiful. Do you have more pictures of her you can post? Any with her sails up? I've searched the web and your pictures here are the only ones available. Maybe you can do a spread in Boat Pictures.

Bill
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Maltese Falcon, built for, owned, and sailed by Bay Area venture capitalist Tom Perkins, sailed into the Bay for first time last Saturday. My friend Mike sailed out to see her sail through the Golden Gate and under the Bridge, and sent this email: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OENpqkU6Ihs "We ...

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The sailor here is Skip Allen, one of the most expert sailors on the West Coast (probably the country). He sailed something like 100,000 miles on Wildflower over about 30 years, many if not most of those miles singlehanded. He has won several Singlehanded Transpacs. Wildflower was a 27' Tom Wylie de...

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Ted Brewer has a very good article on 'Seakindliness' in the current issue of Good Old Boat. It is about a comfortable motion, not about 'seaworthy' things like small cockpits. The article contains several boat pictures and diagrams. One picture is of a motorsailer of his design that took Second in ...

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Great story, Ray. Nice that you saw Robert, and that he's still able to sail Whisper. The day before your trip, I crewed on the 39' Crocker gaff schooner Regulus in the Great Schooner Race. It was a wonderful fleet, including such Bay stalwarts as Brigadoon, Yankee, and Santana. We started off the w...

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Perhaps you are only referring to East Coast boats, but my WC boat #363 has encapsulated ballast. It seems to me that all WC boats are built that way, and there are WC boats numbered below 100.

Bill
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Ganges #363

Ruben and Sparky have arrived safely in Hawaii under successful jury rig. Anyone interested in more on the story can follow the link Rachel provided above.

A real achievement for Ruben.

Bill
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Rachel,

Lectronic Latitude has a great picture of your friend Eric and Polar Bear finishing in Hawaii:

http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lec ... &dayid=148

No log update from Sparky, but the position report says he's becalmed.

Bill
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Rachel, Eric did real well. I especially enjoyed these lines from his post finish log: "Everyone has been generous with advice and support. It makes one realize that Northern California really is just a little slice of Minnesota! Now if only we could explain where the Great Lakes are located!&q...

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Ruben has refined his jury rig and increased his speed. Sounds like he's really enjoying himself. You can read the most recent news by following the link Rachel provided.

By the way Rachel, which one of the racers are you following?

Bill
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The Singlehanded Transpac, from SF Bay to Hawaii, is in it's final stages. There's a guy in the race sailing a Pearson Electra named 'Sparky'. He was dismasted a couple of days ago about 670 miles short of the finish, and is now under jury rig making 2-3 knots. There's a story in Latitude 38 that re...

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Thanks Britton, I've been thinking engine mounts, too. The Hurst transmission section of the owners manual says there can be transmission vibration at low rpm, and suggests (in very small print) buying a cushioning part to eliminate that. But with the heeling difference, I think this problem goes be...

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I had a new Universal/Westerbeke diesel installed several months ago, it has about 50 hours on it now. From the beginning, there was a very unpleasant vibration at low idle rpm. I've eliminated the possibility of the engine bumping a bulkhead, and/or cockpit locker gear reacting to a harmonic. Last ...

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What kind of boat is it?

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Thanks for the ideas. The bungee cord system looks good...a rod would attract my forehead like a magnet. A curtain is probably better than the door for keeping heat in the saloon. It can reach down to the floor and stop drafts. I wonder if anyone has installed one of those bead curtains? Bill Ganges...

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I'm thinking about replacing the bulkhead door in my Triton with a curtain. It looks like the curtain track should be curved. Any suggestions for the kind of track I should use, and the best material for a curtain?

Bill
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Ganges #363

Ray, The of the great thing about sailing is difference of opinions about how to do things. The answer is...there is more than one way to do almost everything on a boat. Try things out and see what works for you. Here are my thoughts, I'm sure others will have theirs: 1. Tiller extensions let you fa...

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A couple of things you might try on days when you expect a lot of wind. Sail with a working jib...you can point higher because the closer sheeting angle (inside the spreaders), and it's easier to tack. If you have a roller jib setup, have a luff tape installed on your working jib. Let the racers dea...

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I like black bottoms, have used black bottom paint on my boats for many years. But then, out here the boats stay in the water year round. We don't see the bottoms as much as those who haul for the winter.

Bill
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Colors can seem to 'change' when put next to different other colors. They can also seem to change when seen from different angles...if you paint your walls and ceiling the same color, the ceiling will look different. Take a color sample and put it next to your boot stripe, or topside, to see how it ...

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An update/conclusion to the sail slide project. We sanded and SailKoted the sail track, but had little improvement on the installed sail slides. (Did it the old fashioned way...bosun's chair.) The sailmaker (Hood Sausalito) replaced the slides, the 'new' new ones work perfectly. He said starting 2-3...

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Thanks for the ideas...the model train thing sounds interesting. Now if I can electrify my sail track it will really be fun. I was trying to think of different devices like that, and that one is cool. The thing in Good Old Boat is ingenious, but works for bolt rope luffs. Thanks Jim, for the sailmak...

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Switching out the new stainless slides for the old bronze slides is a possiblity. But the new slides are so beautifully, and very strongly, attached to the sail, it would take a sailmaker to make the switch. I'd like to find another solution if possible. But I can envision the new slides being just ...

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I bent on my new main sail and found the new stainless sail slides don't like my sail track. My old sail's bronze slides liked it just fine. I lubed the track as far up as I could reach, and the new slides seemed to like that. So the plan is to go up the mast in a chair and clean and lube the track....

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Reu,

'Head Over Heels' belongs to Rob Squire, and is #96. It would be great if my boat looked like that, but I'm nowhere close.

Bill
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Reu, Here is a description of the restoration of 'Head Over Heels'. It has a hull color similar to yours, gives you an idea of how well the original gel coat can be brought back. Your boat is in much better shape to start with, though. http://members.tripod.com/~suter/march99/headoverheels.html Bill...

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Reu,

Harry James regularly posts on this site:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/triton/messages

Perhaps you can contact him there.

Bill
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Ganges #363

Here's the link to pictures of Harry James aperture filling project, also includes a picture of his boat on a trailer showing off her new retro paint job:

http://www.tritonclass.org/mir/144ps1.html

Bill
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I happened to be at the Berkeley Marine Center when Sepibajezus arrived by truck from the east coast. People piled out of the nearby sailing school (OCSC) to admire her...'what kind of boat is that?'. Given the elevated perspective offered by the truck trailer, her hull shape could really be appreci...

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Robert, I thought you were still sloop rigged...just caught up to your mizzen mast thread. Very nice!

You're really doing well in the video. Do you remember the boat that took the picture? He looks to be uncomfortably close.

Bill
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Here are a couple of short videos of Tritons sailing on SF Bay. Looks like a flood tide judging by the smooth water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIdQgFi8 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQANiWP ... re=related

Bill
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Ganges #363

This is a great product. I've used it to siphon fuel into the tank, haven't tried it going the other way but it should work just as well. Super easy, no mess.

http://www.simplesiphon.com/products/

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Britton, I like the color of your hull. It looks like 'Marblehead Green' to me, although virtual pictures can be misleading. Marblehead Green is a sort of gray green, and is a 'King Kong color' as a painter friend used to say. I also like that it's the original 40 year old color. My boat's original ...

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Jon, About 40 years ago, my farmer father in law converted his pickup to run on butane. He had a large butane tank in the bed behind the cab, ran the hoses through the cab to the engine. It ran for several decades like this with no problems. I'd say it depends on how big your engine/vessel/contrapti...

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The San Francisco Marina (Crissy Field) has a legendary waiting list because the city lets boat owners transfer their slips when they sell their boat. About the only way to get in there is to buy a boat, then sell that boat and put your own boat in the slip. Happens a lot. That marina has the advant...

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Robert, If lowering your docking costs will make a difference, you might look toward the Delta, starting with Vallejo. Moving into the Delta itself, you might check out Owl Harbor. It's very economical, and has some Tritons there now. And that area would supply all kinds of new sailing, cruising, an...

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I wonder if I'm the only one reading this thread who is appalled at the vitriol aimed at Bruno Trouble'. Things got out of control for Trouble' while, trying to find shelter from forecast 60k winds, he was anchoring in a strange cove, in the dark, in a stiff breeze. He dragged down on another boat a...

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Jay, Don Casey wrote a book you might be interested in, 'Sensible Cruising, the Thoreau Approach'. Here is the Amazon link to used copies starting at about $10.00: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0931595010/ref=lp_g_1 Some copies of this book are priced at more than $100, don't know why the r...

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Pressurized kerosene stoves do a good job...when they're working. But they often have problems with clogged burner jets, and (in the ones I'm familiar with) you have to prime them with alcohol, so you're back to more than one fuel. They also can be hard to control when starting and can produce a 'fl...

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