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Al

Almost any foam-lined vinyl liner will eventually fail. The foam disintegrates and the glue that held the foam to the top of the cabin fails. You can replace it with new foam-lined vinyl or with vinyl without foam. I have had some luck simply scraping the decayed foam off and then re-gluing the viny...

Al

My new loose-footed main was delivered last week and when I bent it on yesterday, I discovered that I didn't even have a single slug in the foot. It bolts onto the boom at the tack and to the outhaul and a wrap of Velcro around the boom at the aft end. Now my boom looks just like the photos of the r...

Al

JohnD: If your boat has been documented before, it is really not that big a deal. When I bought my first documented boat, I was so intimidated by the process that I paid someone to do the paperwork for me. The next three boats weren't documented and I didn't bother to document them. My current boat ...

Al

The C&C owners web site has the manuals for a lot of Barient winches. They don't seem to have a 20 ST, but there are several that are quite similar. http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/index1.htm

Al Lorman

Al

Uh, Tim, you don't actually buy boats. You buy the promise of boats.

Al

Anyone know what kind of transducer the old Datamarine units used? Mine works, but the display is small and my eyes are getting older. I'd love to swap it out and put in a display with larger numerals.

Al

I have a Dhow as well. Not only are they fun to sail, but they tow remarkably well. I've towed mine is 30 kt winds and accompanying seas with no problem.

Al

Al

It is hard to get contact cement to stick to the shiny side of Formica. I know; I tried when I rebuilt my kitchen counter. I roughed up the existing Formica with 60 grit sandpaper and still was unable to get a good bond. There is a reason Formica advises not trying to bond one piece of Forrmica to a...

Al

Barry: She reported that there were a few relatively small spots of hard growth on the hull, so apparently it simply stopped working and she touched it up. At year 11, or so, it was pretty clear that it had lost its effectiveness generally. CopperCoat, like many other antifouling paints, does not co...

Al

I read the British sailings magazines and the editor of one of them (I forget whether it is Practical Boat Owner or Yachting Monthly) used CopperCoat on her own boat. She reported that it needed a bit of touch up at nine years and failed at 11 years. She had photos to prove it. There is no reason to...

Al

In the small world department, Pearson Commander No. 26 was my first boat. I'm not sure when she moved up north (I'm on the Chesapeake), but if she came with lovely Matella stanchions, she's the same boat. The last time I saw her, she had suffered some hurricane damage on the starboard side. Best of...

Al

They are also available at bosunsupplies.com.

Al

I've had good luck with a Harbor Freight silver tarp; two winters exposure with no signs of degradation. A 29 by 49 is on sale for $100. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... umber=1437

Al

Tartan Yachts sells them as replacement parts: https://www.tartanparts.com/product/pro ... 2cef7fd117

Al

Mike:

According to a leading maker of butyl tape, you have nothing to worry about:

http://www.tremcosealants.com/fileshare ... tapeai.pdf

Al

Well, I used butyl tape today for the first time and it was so darn easy to use that I'm sure there's something wrong with it. I mounted a new rope clutch (why is it a rope clutch if there are only sheets and lines on a boat?) today on the coach top. First I drilled the appropriate sized holes for t...

Al

I plan to follow the approach outlined by Maine Sail here: http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/rebedding_hardware

Al

I'm not concerned about it holding its shape as a tape. I plan to simply attach it to, for example, the bottom of a stanchion base and under the heads of the bolts that go through it. I see it as a more convenient and cleaner way to apply caulking. I'm told that Sabre uses it for this purpose.

Al

I'm going to try a method I've read about but never used: butyl tape. It is sticky as heck, basically never dries out and you can tighten the bolts just as soon as you install them. I'll let you know in a year or so if they leak.

Al

I've successfully used Goof Off and the new plastic razor blades to remove pretty tough glue and tape residue.

Al

I have one of the Myerchin fixed blade combo knifes and I find that it gets dull awfully quickly, so much so that I have begun to think about what I might get to replace it. During some recent rerigging, it struck me that the blade simply would not cut through running rigging quickly in an emergency.

Al

I've used East Off with only limited success; it depends on the kind of paint you're trying to strip and can also stain your gelcoat yellow (though this can be removed). I now use Interlux Interstrip 299E.

Al

Welcome to the group, Dick.

Other members of the group can see Dick's handy work in restoring his Sabre 34 at http://www.geocities.com/earlylight160/

Al Lorman

Al

Nice boat! The early Yankee 30s look like virtual copies of the Tartan 30, but with a nicer interior. S&S was not above making more than one boat from essentially the same lines. They changed over the years. What year is yours?

Al

You can buy a tarp for what the 3M silver tape costs!

Al

1. Sell lovely 1985 Bristol 31.1.
2. Buy new boat.

Al Lorman

Al

I'm in Annapolis as well.

Al

How much do you get back from improvements? I spent $20K fixing up my last boat, which was not a classic and not as old as a Triton. When I sold it, I figure I got about $5K of my improvements back. Insurance value: some companies are a lot better at this than others. I was able to substantially inc...

Al

I've got 11 thru-hulls on my new to me Bristol, six of them for deck and cockpit drains. Being realistic, there's no way that I'm going to close 11 seacocks every time I use the boat. I was thinking of combining the six deck and cockpit drains into two thru hulls that exit above the water line on th...

Al

It is hard to imagine that Tim will ever be able to improve upon his work on Bolero, yet I am confident that he will.

Al

I just had to deal with this on my new-to-me Bristol. My anchor rode is 150' of chain and 100' of rope. The boat had been widely cruised so you can imagine my surprise when I discovered rooting around in the anchor locker that the only thing that kept the rode from departing the boat forever was tha...

Al

There are indeed Nonsuch 30s with a shoal keel (4') and they probably have the same interior space as the larger boats that have been mentioned. There's an older one for sale in Annapolis for $29K, the least expensive N30 listed on YachtWorld.

Al

Ric: I don't have a wire cutter, so I taped and used a hack saw. A cut off wheel might work better. It would be no trouble with the proper wire cutter. As to Tim's comments, all of which are perfectly valid, I did not find them to be issues for me. First, I did not use turnbuckles. Each of the Sunco...

Al

I made a set of them last year, before they were available as "kits." I used uncoated ss wire. They were pretty easy to put together; cutting the wire to length without the right tool was the hardest part. However, I think the new kits cost more than having new lifelines professionally swa...

Al

I think she's an Ovni by Alubat, a French aluminum lifting keel boat.

Al Lorman

Al

I've never used those, but I have used the Wichard water-tight U bolts for the same purpose. http://www.wichard.com/documents/stainlessSteel.pdf

Al

Actually, it was originally invented so GI's could tie down their tents in the field. Apparenlty we don't teach GI's to tie knots.

Al

I saved you the trouble.

Al

I wrote an article about them for the May/June 2006 issue of Good Old Boat. I also used one as part of a Cunningham. They're about as strong as a bowline and, depending on your taste, perhaps a bit neater. Tim doesn't like them.

Al

Wow!!!!!!!

Al

Sounds like a Nor'Sea 27. it is available with an aft or center cockpit.

Al

My keel hurts just looking at that.

Al Lorman

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I just happen to have 19 Bosch 30 grit T-shank jig saw blades, the remainder of a pack of 20 that I bought on eBay a while back for a tile project. I'd be happy to sell all or any part at $1 each plus first class mail costs. I'd been meaning to list them on eBay but never got around to it.

Al

The Defender spring sale has their lowest prices of the year. (I learned this the hard way.) Regular merchandise is available on-line at the sale price as well as in person during this sale. Close-outs, etc., are available only to those lucky enough to live nearby.

Al

How times have changed! Adjusted for inflation, the Hinckley that cost $6,000 in 1946 would be a real bargain today at $64,959.

Al

I have the 9' Dyer Dhow. It is a bit tippy, but it tows remarkably well. The hull on the 12.5 is different (I think it is a Rhodes design), so the experience of smaller Dyers may not be applicable.

Al

Actually, the Commander that was for sale in the Med a while ago go there from the West Coast via the Pacific on what was originally planned to be a circumnavigation. My first boat was a Commander; the cockpit is 9' long. My old boat, Commander number 26, is for sale in MD (www.grabbagsailboats.com)...

Al

I bought about $2K worth of electronics from them and a month or two later the stuff was on sale. I wrote to customer service and they told me when the best sales were and issued me a store credit for the difference between what I paid and the sale price.

Al

Why not just "paint" it with epoxy?

Al

I've used a silver tarp as a winter cover for a number of years and it is still going strong.

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Combine thru hulls

After Bolero?

Bosch blades