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Bluenose

I want a loose footed main too. So how old would the current mainsail have to be before you could rationalize the "need" for a new one.

Dang Shields new sail every year rule.

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Someday, I still hope to build the Auk from the plans I have. But until then I recently upgraded our old beater Livingston dinghy and used the gunnel guard mentioned previously. I thought it was a very nice solution and am quite happy with the outcome, well for a Livingston anyway :). http://lh4.goo...

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Pet peeve here... Why do people leave the rig so loaded when the boat is on the hard???

One of the things I quite like about having tackle on the backstay. Easy on and off mast bend. I relax ours after every sail.

Great pics, thanks.

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I strap Bolero almost as well as Tim did for her cross county trip for her twice a year 2 mile trip to the travel lift.

We live in a pretty small community so I find it best not to add reasons to make the front page of the local rag.

Cheers,
Bill

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Well at least I'm not the only one who takes scraps of paper and graph paper and fiddles around with the old drawings :^) (Nerdy loves company.) Rachel PS: Just don't slip and poke the monitor with your pen if you are home without a printer ;) I have been known to scan or import a lines drawing int...

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Figment, In my experience there is always a bit of drizzle in my boat projects. So a little rain is a welcome change. I knew right away that this panel was a loser. At the time I was sourcing parts I couldn't seem to find a smallish panel that seemed priced at a value that was fitting for the job at...

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Thanks Tony. At least those switches are a standard size so replacement should be easy.

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Glenn, Wow! Great mockup. I was also tracking those pole end fittings. Nice to see that they found a good home. When I finally get to making a spinnaker or whisker pole I will definitely be back looking at this post. Thanks for all the great photo and please keep us posted. Here is the page from Ske...

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I pondered last years reefing system over the winter and made a few changes. The first thing that I did was to replace the short piece of Sprectra line with Harken 29mm ti-lite blocks. (There is a lot of rough mockups going on in these photos so please forgive the general rattiness of everything) ht...

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For some reason I feel that a boat thread just needs a photo of the sail plan. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/S_cVuuzYhjI/AAAAAAAAOFo/SIDcysVDvI0/s1600/1947+Rhodes+Evergreen+for+Sale+-+F.jpg We have one that sails out of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island that we ran into last year. A thing of ...

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Have you also tried sailing with just the double reefed main by itself? Or is there too much weather helm with that choice? Bill, I have not sailed with only double reefed main. My friend Rob asked the same question as he thinks it should provide better helm balance. The only thing I am concerned i...

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Bolero absolutely looks stunning with her new makeover. But I just love the photos of old. Especially the guy walking along the boom. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/S_gVT4IXRDI/AAAAAAAAOHw/Axa7wuLJKX4/s1600/1949+Sparman+%26+Stephens+Yawl+Bolero+-+B.jpg BOLERO, 1949 - Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld...

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Have you also tried sailing with just the double reefed main by itself? Or is there too much weather helm with that choice?

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Figment wrote:She looks SO much bigger than 30'. Must be the depth of cockpit.

She sometimes looks big to me as well :).

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A brother of a friend took a short video of Bolero sailing back into Fisherman's Bay on Lopez Island last summer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBv0vMSLFM&feature=related Apparently there may be some additional footage and Skip will be up on Lopez for a sail and DVD exchange in a few weeks. I ...

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http://www.lackeysailing.com/circe/circe.html

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In my original concept for Bolero's conversion I had planned on having a simple electrical system. At the time the concept grew a bit large, complicated and expensive so during one of the many belt tightening and focusing periods of the project it was canceled. Our grounding last summer brought up s...

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How about these....go before ebay deletes! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/21-J-Boat-Endeavor-Replica-Sailboat-Classic-Lines-/220606495390?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Sailboats&hash=item335d2bfa9e#ht_836wt_1167 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/S_cczXK4CaI/AAAAAAAAOGQ/bo4ZIgZOXKA/s1600/1986+Mini+12+...

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Pretty darn sweet. Rachel do you have a link to the add? I would enjoy seeing more photos.

No shortage of nice boats on the Rockport Marine site.

Oops, almost forgot the transom shot.

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This morning after a nasty little late season storm blew through the Pacific Northwest.

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If you are the neighborly sort you could practice careening in pairs. That way there would be someone handy to help with top of the mast maintenance while you are otherwise occupied. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/R9X7eTT-50I/AAAAAAAAC_U/KNqIIIENV0Y/s800/Spinnaker%20-%20A.jpg http://lh5.ggpht.com...

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Should I ever be forced to careen Bolero again (and I certainly hope not) I would choose the spinnaker halyard over the main halyard. On a fractional rigged boat I just don't like the lack of support for this type of loading. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/SiTdRN63nZI/AAAAAAAAKRk/N_6P8WH3wm0/s800...

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LPU is immune to paint thinner or related solvents. Even acetone is fine, used with care. Tim, good to know. And all of this. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/S9WdpI3KG4I/AAAAAAAAN-A/6oBbRunXPKc/s800/2010%20Bolero%20Spring%20Refit%20Small%20-%20008.jpg Is now gone like it was never there. Bill

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Thanks again for all the replies. Today I was varnishing and had a couple of runs from my toe-rail. I quickly grabbed rag with a small bit of brushing thinner and wiped them up. Just for the heck of it a tried a light rub on these scuffs. They came off with ease. I couldn't see any effect on the pai...

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When I read your description, I instantly thought of the Cape Dory Typhoon. 19' of perfection from Carl Alberg. I hadn't thought of the Typhoon....now you have me thinking - thanks If the Cape Dory Typhoon is on your list then it seems that you may have relaxed you shoal draft just a bit as trailer...

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Thanks for all the suggestions. I did pick up a box of Magic Erasers but I will work my towards using them and only after trying in the least noticeable place first. Scratches, dings and scuffs are a frustrating part of using Tim's beautiful paint job but I guess the only option is keeping Bolero on...

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I thought these little pyramids were a nifty idea so I ponied up for a set. I still use them but I am not overwhelmed. Turns out that varnished wood is quite slippery and tends to move. This adds a degree of difficulty to varnishing that I am not quite ready for.

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Despite my attempts to setup my mooring in a way that prevents the crappy (but require) plastic mooring ball away from Bolero, I managed to get a few mooring rubs on her blue topside paint. These scuffs appear to be mostly on the exterior of the paint and and I can flake pieces of the white plastic ...

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Here is a photo of Yankee Dolphin #106, Parakletos (in Port Townsend at the time). She came dang close to saving Tim all those hours of crawling into small dark spaces. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/S7VrUZWsFNI/AAAAAAAAN5o/4hqiqh9D5bo/s800/Parakletos%201968%20-%2027.JPG Don't quite know why I di...

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What's that about a boat looking like a Whitehall and doing everything else well too? http://www.gaboats.com/boats/classic10.html Of course there could be a durability problem - but it sounds like they're better than you might think, and much easier to repair (like roll of tape easy). We have an 8'...

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.....One of the biggest problems is it's not a handy sail if you're doing any tacking (without a crew), such as sailing in and out of harbors and anchorages, something I love to do. It's a lot of cloth to bring across the foredeck and over the shrouds. And of course as you go off the wind, the 150%...

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Zach, I am pretty new to hacking in wood but my old 14 inch Delta/Rockwell bandsaw is pretty much my go to saw so I have spent considerable time trying to dial it in. From my research and experience the 14 inch saws can't provide the tension needed to resaw with wide resaw blades. It sounds counter ...

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This thread isn't talking about a major structural change or re-engineering: it's talking about augmenting an existing hull-deck joint with additional reinforcement designed mainly to make the existing joint more waterproof, and with the added result of extra strength above and beyond what already ...

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Well I don't know in any calculated sense; I base my thoughts on seeing boats that do have the hull-deck joint glassed (and no other fasteners), and also on the numerous boats that are built in two (or more) hull pieces that are glassed together. Examples of the former would be the Triton and Ariel...

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When you guys,and gals, say that fiberglassing over the inside or outside of the hull to deck joint would would be structurally adequate and allow you to replace any and all the fasteners, how do you know? What loading conditions are you taking into account. Where does your confidence come from? Jus...

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Tim wrote:In the end, it's all about what makes an individual happy, not what others think. We all have our own individual standards for what constitutes personal happiness and satisfaction.

Amen, to that quote.

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(Who is spoiled by his 67% ballast ratio - [referring to his Shields]) I did not know B/D ratio can go that high, and looking at some Shields sailing photos they still heel over. The Shields have 3080 pounds of ballast on 4600 pounds of displacement and yes they still heel. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rq...

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Of course anytime that you add weight to the hull, especially in the form of low additional ballast, you will increase the loads on the rigging. And up-sizing the rig is working on the other side of the stability teeter-toter. Add my vote to the side of keep the boat light, the weight down low and r...

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I think the debate could end easily if someone long ago hadn't called them "life" lines. They're just handholds for convenience. They work well at that, but their given name is stupid and inaccurate and leads to endless debates of no purpose. Tim, Very, very good point. That sure would ha...

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I wonder if modern lifelines are a result of the evolving shape and use of sailboats. On Bolero we don't have them and I have never really felt uncomfortable with that choice. But, when I helped a friend motor his Cape Dory 25D 20 miles home I was sure glad to have them. The Cape Dory with its narro...

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I am currently transitioning Bolero from no on-board power to having a small battery with a roll up solar panel. Primarily so I can have depth sounder input into the gps. The Garmin unit that I have also supports a fish finder transducer but what I found was that the power draw for the fish finder w...

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Great points. I have always found it interesting how little analysis goes into determine the sizing for critical boating components. The Pardey's mentioned this as well and I believe their conclusion was that there is such a limited market for boat hardware and every boat is different so the loads n...

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Bill, That sounds interesting. Is there any way you could post a sketch of what you mean though? I can't quite visualize it. Thank you, Rachel Hey Rachel, Okay here is a quick sketch of an idea. I would still want to look a bit deeper before I ran with it. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rqLNS-z1IIU/SwiosErP...

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As I look over some of the short stubby type of anchor platforms shown in this thread (and on the web) they seem to me to originate from a set of requirements in the following order. 1) Need, the number and types of anchors, 2) Logistics, what you can actually fit on the bow 3) Aesthetics and 4) Str...

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Rachel,

No worries, I completely understand. I have authored a few websites in my past both with my own domain name and blogs.

In the end it seem that it was the websites that owned me regardless of how they were hosted.

Cheers, Bill

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I'd been wanting to ask something similar. I'd like to be able to document certain projects on the web, but for various reasons have resisted things like "Blogger." Friends in the know tell me that doing it on my own domain will be a total time suck, but then I see that Tim (and others) d...

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I also have a camera recommendation. I definitely think that Tim's method of using a "disposable" camera in his high risk environment makes sense. But I have been really please with the durability of our Olympus Stylus 1030SW. It is shock proof from a drop of 6.6 ft, waterproof to 33 ft an...

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What do wish you could do with regards to the logs but can't as of the moment. Find an easier way to bulk-resize/optimize my photos without requiring a master's degree in some fancy computer program to do so. What I do isn't hard, but it requires several different steps and therefore is time-consum...

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Add me to the list of people piling on to thank to Tim for posting the log of his Seabreeze project. I started a simple but enjoyable tradition of reading construction logs with my morning tea during our Bolero project and I have continued with the various projects since. Both Circe and #16 are espe...

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In an attempt to research this vague relationship between the amount of sailing and the buildup of slime, I will commite myself to sailing even more next year than we did this year.

The sacrifices we make for the pursuit of the sciences.

Cheers, Bill

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