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Triton mast is +/- 37', figure another 12' of cable to get to the radio itself for a grand total of 49'. According to the West Marine catalog, Ancor doesn't reccomend runs of 50' or greater for their type RG-8X cable, they want you to step up to the RG-8U. I never like landing so near guidelines lik...

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If I'm bored this weekend I may go have a gander at this baby just for laughs.

http://cgi.netscape.ebay.com/ebaymotors ... gory=26433

$26 at the moment.... I could use another spare A4...

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Tim, Remind me... what's the trick with adjusting the crown of the deck beams as they go forward to get the right deck camber? Is it that the radius needs to increase as you go forward, or decrease? I learned this a while back, but like all knowlege not used, it's lost from my mind. All of my boatbu...

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Who's Carl?

;)

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Well, boy-howdy! Mazel Tov! A thousand blessings on you and your new/old camel! I eagerly await all the details. I'll have to check with him, but I'm 90% certain that my father had a 23' Lyman back in the late 70's. I was a bit too young to remember the boat, but his memories are quite fond of it.

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This one's been nibbling at me. The Invicta is a gorgeous boat. Of that there is no doubt. In my opinion, it's right up there with the Bermuda/Block Island 40 design (both Bill Tripp, if memory serves). The damage done to that boat, however, is enough to make my skin crawl! Those repairs are one mig...

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I've been following this one on another board. Apparrently, the owner can document that this boat is DH #1!!!, though he didn't list that bit of info in the auction for whatever reason.

Though that blue paint is just criminal, a great boat lies beneath.

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Pearsons were built on the site of the former Herreshoff yard? I never knew that. I always assumed that they were located in that newer industrial area off of Gooding avenue.... up where Carroll and all of those others are now. or, were.... did I read somewhere that Carroll went bankrupt, or got bou...

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Thirty lashes with a wet-out strip of biax!!!

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Methinks that different people have different definitions of "crowded". None of the CT people I spoke to had that complaint, and one even made a comment to the contrary. I guess it's all relative.... we're used to the herds at the Newport show, where they actually need staff at the heads o...

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What's the scoop on the Maine Boatbuilders' Show? I've heard good things from some folks around here.... what's the locals' take on it?

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I've been mulling this one over and over, but I'm coming up totally empty.

The external chainplates and the upturn of the sheer at the bow are completely throwing me for a loop!

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Fairclough-style canvas covers..... expensive to be sure, but I'd imagine that they've gotta be worth every penny. Heavy? ya, you betcha. At least Fairclough has the good sense to fabricate larger covers in sections. My father had a custom canvas cover (handmedown from PO) for his Luhrs 342. This wa...

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Last winter I bought the cheapest tarp I could find, and cobbled together a frame with some 1x3 strapping lumber and duct tape. It kept the sun off, but the open ends allowed more rain than I liked, and the configuration of the frame made things pretty tough in terms of moving around on deck. I aspi...

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Fundamentally, winter covers are a necessary evil, right? "Necessary" if you winter in a location that actually has Winter. "Evil" no matter what. This evil manifests itself in several forms; #1 There are a number of canvas lofts around here that make extraordinary custom-fit cov...

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Really, I dont expect a huge volume of surprises with respect to using PVC. The stuff has been in use long enough that its virtues and shortcomings are old hat by now.

My notion of building a custom holding tank and locating it up behind the head under the side deck, on the other hand.....

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Nathan, Mark the date and time. I officially have no thoughts, tips, or anything else to offer on the topic. Certainly no pics. This whole issue of the head plumbing (and just about everything else boaty) has been on hold for the past months due to life's other pesky priorities. The plan hasn't chan...

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I think that this is an area where "brand loyalty" can really screw you. Each manufacturer has a certain few tools that they do really well, and the rest of the line is just riding coattails. The following is purely personal opinion, and I'm completely open to learning things to the contra...

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Tim, My own cockeyed attempt to use a trapezoidal foam cushion/fillet at the bulkhead edges is still fresh enough in my mind to give me good appreciation of the work you did on the Daysailor last week. Bravo! Hot Glue!! DUH!! Why the heck didn't I think of that? That would've made my process a lot e...

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(broadening the topic to "rig dimensions") In searching for used sails, I noted that Bacon's lists the triton (fractional sloop) foresail luff dimension as a range between 28'-3" and 30'3". Scaling this dimension off of the sailplan drawings yields something in the neighborhood o...

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I should qualify this sail that I'm calling my 180..... I doubt it was made for the boat. It almost certainly was originally made for a much larger boat as a 130+/- and purchased used by a PO. I say this for three reasons. 1) the construction is far too heavy for it to have been intended as a light-...

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My gut tells me that sounds kind of pricey for the reefs,but I honestly have nothing concrete on which to base that, so maybe not. But we're talking two pressed-in cringles (unless they're quoting you handsewns, which I doubt unless you specifically asked for it--which maybe you did) and 3 or 4 chi...

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The cold hand of winter has given me a bracing slap of reality. I'd intended to begin this sail work after Thanksgiving, but life got in the way. Even now, my carpal tunnel problems are not far enough behind me that needlework would be a good idea. So once again I must consider throwing the checkboo...

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Every addict needs an "enabler"!

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"Save a Plastic Classic" a.k.a. "Baiting Tim"

It's a new winter sport, and it's all the rage.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&category=26432&item=2453665347 http://i21.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/28/83/ec_1.JPG Tim, you'd need to cobble together a quick 20' extension out the front door of the Barn, but wow would it be worth it!!! Think of it as a "retir...

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Wow. The minimal flange sure makes this interesting. It'll be durn near impossible to set those things without causing some damage to adjacent finishes. Having that big honkin access hatch so close doesn't make things any easier, either. So since we're talking about some nasty destructive work, I'm ...

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My question is: why bother going for that high shine in the first place? Once the pieces go back on the boat they're going to weather and verdigris in short order anyway I couldn't agree more. No need for a showroom shine. Just polish enough to smooth out the porosity imparted by the wire wheel and...

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Grab a good wire wheel while you're at it. The felt and paste will eventually get through whatever remains of the chrome, but there's no need to be masochistic about it. Start with a wire wheel (Tim, didn't you recently post something about a cool new kind of wire wheel?), and don't be afraid to use...

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(this comes as no surprise to some of you, I'll bet.....) That boat deserves bronze hardware, not chrome. If the chrome is truly gone, then a good felt wheel, a pot of polishing paste, and some time will yield a fine finish on that hardware. The quesiton is.... do you have the time? Gratuitous bit o...

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Last night, I happened to find myself watching "Shipshape TV" again. Now, I know we've made fun of this bozo before in another thread here, but the host, working on a silly Boston Whaler project, said that it was "critical" to wax the nonskid (!!) with, as he put it, a "mar...

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A day of elation..... Figment finally got her winter cover, a full three weeks and two snowstorms earlier than last year's cover. Oh, and what a glorious day at a boatyard! Cloudless sky, 50something degrees, only the lightest puff of breeze. Other members dropped by the yard throughout the day to c...

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Anyone else read the Practical Sailor writeup on topsides paint?

I thought the test was a bit flawed, as they executed it as a single-coat test even with products that are intended to be applied as a multi-coat system.

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I might as well get the ball rolling on the used sails topic.... On the east coast, Bacon Sails in annapolis pretty much sets the standard for the used sail market. It's at the point now that most folks around here use Bacon's rating system as the measuring stick even in casual conversation. I've ye...

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Because I just live to throw wrenches in the works.... The thing about maple is that it's everywhere these days. Or, so it seems. Maple veneer, or simulated maple veneer has become something of a standard finish lately, and the technology behind the simulated products ("Pergo" leaps to min...

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Well well.... Come on down to good ol' connecticut when registration time comes!!! I expected a similar DMV backfire when I answered the HIN question with "78", but no such snafu materialized. The HIN field of my registration simply reads "none". This is an interesting issue. Is ...

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... or perhaps is it a thin (cosmetic) teak deck laid over the factory deck? wait.... cobwebs clearing in brain..... If this is a true-laid wooden deck.... Isn't there lore of someone restoring a fire-damaged triton? stripped to a bare hull and rebuilt? Might this be THAT boat? (now there's a fishin...

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hey, that is a really useful piece of info!

c'mon Tim! the IRS ain't watching this board!

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This looks like a great way to spend a week!:

http://www.woodenboat.com/school/04bronze.htm

The ability to cast one's own bits and pieces.... Maybe this is just that "strange" part of my brain, but that just seems so friggin cool....

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Tim, there is nothing, NOTHING on earth that gets one's testosterone flowing quite like an oxy-acetylene torch.

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Tim, I just read about your difficulty in cold-bending your new tiller lamination, and your consideration of a steam box. My (unsolicited) advice: don't go overboard. Steam is steam. I've worked with some really slick steam box setups that use huge propane-fired kettles, have stickers for the wood t...

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I just stumbled onto this Alberg 30 pic, and thought I'd share....

Now tell me that's not what it's all about!!!!

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Used forklifts are cheap, and there's no end to their utility.

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Tim,

Don't give up on the notion of the deck-height rudder head so quickly!

Yeah, it would be located pretty far back on the aft deck... so what?
Extend the stern of the boat!

hmmmm..... A triton with a fantail stern....

(I'm a sucker for double-enders)

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A buddy of mine built himself a new lobsterboat last year, and used a few of those metal bomar hatches in the deck. I admiringly commented on their bulletproof appearance once over the summer. His response was something to the effect of "those things F#&*ing suck! I'm constantly stumbling o...

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I had good luck with 4" of polyisocyanurate foam (foil-faced), straight from the home center. It's something like R 7.2 per inch. Tim, I recently attended a roofing seminar, and learned that polyiso is about to be "downgraded" to something in the neighborhood of R6/inch because of ne...

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I love the notion of integrating the coamings and the coach sides. Bringing the sides together pointy-style, in my opinion, is one of those things that looks better on paper than it does in practice. Even a fairly blunt point, like the Bridges Point, needs a more generous foredeck than a <30' boat c...

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http://arcebus.net/

here's a guy that took plans for a Nutshell Pram and scaled them up 300% or so.

Cojones.

Hey, at least he'll know what to build as a tender!

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heh heh. Gotta start checking the board AFTER the morning coffee!

You KNOW we can't resist jumping on things like that, host or no!

:)

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Tony, To remove either the coupling or the propeller from the shaft, you need something against which to pull, at whichever end is opposite the end you're working on. Therefore, pulling the prop with the coupling removed or detached from the engine will be difficult or impossible--the prop puller e...

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