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I played hooky for the afternoon and did some solo sailing. I crossed tacks for a while with a Tartan 37. That was one beautiful boat. Do they all have those tall (+/- 6") teak toerails? I can see why you'd say it's "stubby and truncated looking", Tim, but beating through 2' chop in 1...

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I'll add another perspective... that of a recent veteran of the less-than-$20k boat market. It was only 8 months ago that I bought my boat (god, can that be true?!!!), only 4 months ago that I sold my other boat, and for the past two months I've been helping a friend boat-hunt. Here's the odd yet ha...

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Tim, This may or may not apply to the difficulty you're experiencing with your interior cleanup grinding, but when I was grinding away the remnants of my forward bulkhead, I found that it was the combination of plywood and 'glass that slowed the process. During a dustfree breathing break, a thought ...

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Hey, thanks for the play-by-play George! The reef really is the only part I'm considering doing myself. I can probably come up with a rigging solution to the oversize issues before this season ends. I suspect that this is a loaded question, and each will have his own answer: How much sail should be ...

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Well, hot damn! Lively topic! Ok.... $1400 in Maine dollars probably interpolates to $1800 Connecticut dollars at least (probably a source for your cost differential as well, George, if you're thinking Annapolis $$) if not closer to $2k. eh, even $1400 might as well be a million this year. so... Ret...

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Tim wrote: His posts tend to ramble too. (Gee I don't know anyone else like that...)

I guess we all saw that one coming.

Where else (online) do you run into Roger?

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I first met Roger Winiarski of Bristol Bronze about ten years ago when he gave a talk to a class I was taking at the IYRS in Newport. He was an amusing speaker, and clearly a fanatic when it came to Herreshoff bronze hardware. I just got off of a phonecall with him. It turns out that it doesn't matt...

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My mainsail is actually a Shields mainsail. It's in great condition.... a little too blown-out for a Shields, but just deep enough for the Triton, and the fabric is still nice and crunchy. My two gripes are that it's about 6" too large both in luff and in foot length, and that it has no reef po...

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I'll file that one away for the 500' daysailor I'm thinking of building next year.

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Hey, slow down! I wasn't trying to pry that old sink from your historic renovation hands. well, it seems I've developed something of a reputation. I wonder how that could've happened? ;) jeez, and how well timed is this? because my spin pole is so beat up and corroded, and my boom is perforated wit...

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I still have the folding sink from #78. I've been waffling on the issue of reinstalling or not.

This is one of those issues that will be decided by the wifey. Lemme talk to her, and I'll post a pic of it so you can see the condition.

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The whole reason for us even having a Triton is so the dog, Grover, can go sailing with us. http://www.cerjanickuss.com/February03/RzdDsc02732FunnyGrover.jpg Grover, being a bulldog with all the breathing problems bulldogs have, doesn't do so well in hot weather. This weekend was 85-90 degrees with ...

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I think that the very idea of a 5-day weekend is pure genius. Julia and I were supposed to go up to Toronto for a long charter weekend on this: http://www.heritagelaunch.com/gallery/hnorth3.jpg But at the last minute she couldn't get away from work, so I'm faced with 5 COMPLETELY OPEN DAYS. I manage...

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well, now that you mention it.... maybe it's not steel. I haven't done a magnet test or anything. I just assumed steel because it's so thin. from what I can tell it's pretty similar to what you had on #381 http://www.triton381.com/images/erafter5-320.jpg What was that engine bed made of? What was #1...

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I'm thinking ahead into this coming winter, when I'll most likely be pulling the engine for a rebuild. It occurs to me that this is the opportunity to remove those steel engine beds and install some wooden beds that would allow vibration-damping mounts. Plus I could get closer to the old "mass ...

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(the sound of corks popping and applause is heard in the background)

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to my mind, "retractable" = shock cord. my gut reaction to your post is to attach a length of shockcord to the crotch of the jumper struts that's just long enough to secure to the boom near the gooseneck under a bit of tension. this line would then be under more tension when you walk it af...

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I've also heard lore that capsizings were frequent, and that the crew required to shift that ballast was usually most economically obtained by recruiting longshoremen, who were not adverse to settling race protests by brawling at the scene of the incident.

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I haven't got a disassembled Whale and Henderson here in front of me to give an informed comparison, but I do know from my work with laboratory equipment that it's more efficient to pull a vacuum with a smaller pump than a larger pump. (when labs need more vacuum capacity, they use pumps with multip...

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I've often wondered why Edson or Morse have not developed an engine/gearbox control module for sailboats that accepts a standard winch handle as a dismountable operator. I'd think it would sell like hotcakes. I'd think they'd be on just about every sailboat out there. I stumbled across this AMAZING ...

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Honestly, I was leaning toward the mostly-PVC system already. I just didn't want to sound like a total nutjob. I can see where a series of rigid connections would have drawbacks on a planing-speed powerboat that's constantly slamming itself around, but on a displacement boat I think it makes perfect...

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I know, this is your FAVORITE topic, Tim. Try to contain your excitement. ;) Aside from soliciting whatever general retrospective advice you might have omitted from your Glissando writeup, I have two specific issues; 1. Given the difficulty you experienced in getting that sanitary hose to take any t...

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Is that some kind of deranged belt sander in the lower left? for getting into tight quarters, I'd imagine?

sorry about the huge pic size, but I'm not tech-savvy enough to know how to correct it.

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ok, THAT DOES IT!!

I'm going to apply wood veneers over my topsides this winter!

don't anyone try to talk me out of it, either!

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Jeff, By my reading of your post, that's a 4:1 purchase (though friction WILL build in the cringle under load and cost you some effort), which I would think is plenty. I say this because I have yet to wish for more than my basic dinghy-rigged 2:1. I confess, however, that I don't fuss much with the ...

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I have no "key" for my boat. What I have is a double-switched ignition circuit. I have a push-pull switch in the cockpit, with the pushbutton start and the choke and throttle. On the same circuit, I have a push-pull on the main electrical panel down below. Both of these push-pull switches ...

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Sounds like a winner to me. In my experience, the general downfall of triple-double (and larger) setups is that invariably one hunk of line crosses another and gets hung up on the way into the sheave, suddenly turning your 7:1 into something less than half as effective. Another generally troublesome...

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I spent some time straightening up the shop last night for an upcoming project, and I happened across a box of odds&ends that the PO gave with the boat. Among the dozens of old drawer pulls and robe hooks were two 24" lengths of bronze 1" T-track! digging a bit deeper unearthed a pair ...

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Backing away from our aeronautical fumblings...... Back onto foresail lead points and tracks: My current dilemma (see recent post in "Ramblings") is that I evidently bought #78 with sails that don't fit. The boat has one set of tracks, mounted along the foot of the house, running roughly t...

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I didn't say anything about the swim being warm, did I??

After an hour of sweating buckets as a result of boat wrestling, I was ready for Polar Bear status.

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Sailing? What's that? The boat's supposed to move by power of wind you say? Well, I thought I'd give it a try. Yesterday was the first opportunity to get Figment moving under sail, as it was the first time I was able to have "backup crew" along for a shakey shakedown. Yesterday was also 15...

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Actually, I didn't notice the geyser during the crash-stop, Julia did. I guess I was too busy studying the degree of propwalk.

However, her reaction was amusing enough to make me do it a second time over her protests :)

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As great as it felt to be floating, it feels even better to be floating and MOVING under our own power. A couple of things I've noticed while tooling up and down the river...... When reversing above idle, I get a nice little geyser of water up from the portside cockpit drain. During my "let's s...

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wait....... Professional Boatbuilder is FREE??? well hot damn! I've been getting all of mine in 6month secondhand chunks from a friend. That friend recently moved to seattle, leaving me with no source. happy day! A PB I read recently (no telling when it was published) did a writeup of a dutch Feadsh...

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I'm developing the opinion that Ted Brewer is the nautical-literary equivalent to someone who talks and talks and talks just to hear the sound of his own voice. (yeah, takes one to know one) Last night I read both of his articles in the current Good Old Boat. I put the magazine down wondering why I'...

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Hartford has become painfully aware of its deterioration over the past decade or so, as other similar cities have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. Yesterday's Hartford Courant ran "Portland; A Jewel By The Sea". http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-portland.artjun22.sto...

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well, since no one's chimed in with any direct experience.... I love CLC. I'm a certified addict of their "shop cam". I got into them a few years ago when I was building my canoe-thingy. Cedarstrip, not S&G, but small boats is small boats, right? Plus, I briefly had a harebrained notio...

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Yeah, he wanted something like $2500 for each. Both had soft decks and a foot of water in the bilge. one had no sails, the other had a dead engine. To walk these docks was to risk serious injury. I tried to deal with him in terms of buying the boat with the good engine if he'd toss in the sails from...

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Ok, I've had the cordless drill for a week now. You guys were right.

I got the reconditioned 12V dewalt compact mentioned above. The only sign that it's not brand-new is the fact that paint has rubbed out of the "torque settings" numbers. It runs like a champ.

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Earlier in my search for a Triton, I came across a pair that were languishing at a nautical wrecking yard that called itself a "marina" in Bridgeport. The seller and I were unable to come to terms (I suspect he had the salvage value of the lead ballast as his bottom line), so my search con...

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It looks like your mooring involves a tieup between one or more pilings? Or is that an optical illusion? It's no illusion. Around here, this is referred to as a "stake mooring". Pilings are driven along one edge of the dredged channel, and you tie up bow and stern to basically keep the bo...

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What the heck is this? I didn't even notice it until launch day.

It's off center, portside. pretty solid.

Something to do with a keelbolt?

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I had to post this. After all of my hemming and hawing about skimping on my tender, all the while striving to get it to look as nice as possible, keeping up appearances and all. This is the nesting dinghy of our upriver neighbor..... http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p74f9359b5ddecb9bb9ae7...

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Ok fellas, I can unclench. It was a dismal friday the 13th of pouring rain, but she floats. This is that travelift I wrote about. This very unit hauled my dad's Luhrs 25 about 20 years ago. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p929ee23f43b35484916926dda8b36f57/fbeae787.jpg The sentimental par...

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A little something for all of us Mount Gay fans....

A Haitian friend of mine keeps telling me to try Barbencourt rum. Apparently, this stuff is the Dom Perignon of rums.

Anyone here ever tried it?

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My transom lettering is in hand. I think I want to do a little surgery to some parts of this, almost to the point of having individual letter decals to lay instead of the handy-dandy one big sheet. Am I creating my own nightmare, or is this stuff easier to work with than I remember? (previous experi...

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Of course my favorite tillers are the oldest, and therefore most difficult to reproduce..... I love a tiller carved from a curved stick of black locust. Especially the ones with a nice knob on the end. I also share dave's preference for a tiller that's mostly horizontal at the business end. I've res...

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He wouldn't say how much. I doubt he knows off the top of his head. He's not one to treat the Snap-On truck like it's the ice cream man. I know I'll pay. He knows I'll pay. In fact, on my way out the door he bellowed " oh, you'll pay! just you wait! " Wait 'til I tell him that the backup h...

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A buddy of mine is a mechanic. Like all pro mechanics, he has a very strict policy against lending tools. His tools put food on his table. If you're in the closer circle of friends, he'll let you come into his shop when it's slow and work under his supervision, but try to get a tool out the door and...

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silly question, but how are you dealing with rainwater? drill a few holes through the side of the keel bilge?

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