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jhenson

Nathan, Speaking of the toe rails. Could you give me an idea of what was done to the molded toe rail prior to adding the (old)wooden one? I'm guessing that this was done before you acquired the boat. For example, was there a flat spot ground down on it before applying? Does the profile you have now ...

jhenson

Nathan, As I seem to be continuously lowering the asthetic value (and monetary value as well) by hacking away at it, I came across the pictures of Dasein's beautiful green hull. It's enough to bring an owner of a land based boat to tears of joy! Only another 10,000 hours of labor and maybe I'll be h...

jhenson

The 20 gallons of gas in my tank wouldn't burn in anything without explosive backfiring. I tried diluting it in a couple of pieces of machinery only to have to pull the tanks and redrain. I called my landfill and they said they take gas once a month during hazardous materials collection day so I rev...

jhenson

Rachael, I understand your reluctance to make a trip without knowing the boat. I got my Triton home from the Annapolis area last summer. The first week with her home, while surveying the collosal work ahead of me, I discovered that all the hoses below the waterline would literally turn to powder whe...

jhenson

Annapolis and Deale are amoung the most expensive places to keep a boat on the Chesapeake. My brother kept his 31 ft. boat at Deale for several years, but now has it on the Northern Neck section of Virginia at the lower Patomac and pays about half for marina fees. There are lots of small yards aroun...

jhenson

Jason,

Thanks for the reply. I would certainly never refuse the opportunity to see pictures of someone else's sailboat, especially another Triton. My email is:

jrhensonjr@earthlink.net

Thanks again,

Joe

jhenson

Rachael, These have some of the elements that you are talking about. There are weep holes on the lower side for drainage. A 3" PVC pipe was used for the inlet into the cabin and stands proud of the deck by about 1". There are no middle dam sections like I think you are talking about. Also,...

jhenson

Thanks for the kind words on my humble attempt at site building. I have often considered adding an eyebrow to Glissando. These are mahogany and badly damaged. I love them though. The plan is to replace them and run them contiquously around the doghouse and (including the lower section) like the Cheo...

jhenson

I'm filling holes around the boat this month left by deleted engine and sail instruments. While I'm patching holes, I am trying to decide what to do with the dorade boxes next to the companionway. http://home.earthlink.net/~jrhensonjr/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/deckaft-2.jpg I like the i...

jhenson

Anyone who's set foot on an old Triton knows exactly what it looked and felt like, though!

I' m sure you can't forget! It's sorta like the scene in the movie "Alien" when they descend into the alien space ship. Pretty scary.

Joe

jhenson

I'm sure I have well over a hundred hours or so grinding off old paint and filling the rough texture of the interior bare fiberglass surfaces on my Triton (without interior liner). I've gone through about 4 gallons of body filler to smooth the texture on all the surfaces that will be visible after c...

jhenson

Those pictures are exactly like mine before removal. I should have said outlet.

Joe

jhenson

I have all the remnants of the Atomic 4 removed now for several weeks in anticipation of installing the Yanmar 2GM sometime in the distant future. I"ll be covering the old guage holes though very soon. Is there any reason that I should retain the bilge blower (ie: supplimental engine cooling) o...

jhenson

Tim,

Thanks,

I hope that I haven't exceeded the number of "dumb" questions allowed on this forum. I'm sure I am approaching it though.

Joe

jhenson

I'm contemplating starting my deck re-core project this summer. I guess the standard practice is to cut out an area in the new core a few inches outside of load bearing items on the deck (such as stanchions, rails, and chainplates) and then glass in material in that area until flush with the core ma...

jhenson

I just remove my Atomic 4 about a few months ago. The aft starboard bolt spun around freely (my bolts had a flat plate welded to them to "trap them against the bed so as to allow removal with a singe wrench). I ended up splitting the square nut with a cold chisel, and the engine came out afterw...

jhenson

Real tongue and groove, or V-match, has the added advantage of being easier to install in place than unwieldy sheets of plywood. What would you say the minimum thickness of the stock would be to use solid wood and not worry about stability issues. I don't want to add any wider material to the bulkh...

jhenson

Rachael, I had a recomendation from Nathan on the thread I started on interior paint. Here is the image he posted: http://user.online.be/~cd00902/HC48_SALON.jpg I love the look! I have given this a lot of thought!! However, my boat has a pronounced dip in the coachroof (just before it turns down) th...

jhenson

Are you thinking something like "liquid nails"? Moldings that have to take a bend will have enough spring tension on them to require a fairly good bond.

Joe

jhenson

Tim, My preference would be furniture grade mahogany plywood. I was concerned that the deadlights might start to leak (like mine were before I removed them). I know that my soarce for mahogany plywood in this area carries nothing thinner than 1/4". It would be nice to find it in 1/8" for n...

jhenson

Yeah! That forward section of the coachroof is a real carpentry quandry. I think it can be done, but the angles are very difficult to manage. The plywood isn't the problem, but fitting trim pieces that flow gracefully around these compound curves seems like the real challenge. I am considering leavi...

jhenson

I,m still below decks trying to refine the painted glass surfaces before repainting. I had several people advance some ideas about improving the bare fiberglass interior on Tritons built without interior liners. One idea I have been mulliing over is to apply a 1/4" meranti plywood skin over the...

jhenson

Sorry,

I should have read your last post in better detail.

Do you think your rudder on the daysailor will look about like this?

Joe

jhenson

Tim, I,ve noticed that the line drawings a few have posted on the internet show a squared rudder. See: http://pw1.netcom.com/~suter/linestn.JPG Do you think these were done by Alberg himself? Somewhere, I read that he redesigned the rudder for less weather helm. If so, I think one could extract enou...

jhenson

I need an inexpensive tank for a diesel repower. I see that Glissando's replacement tank is a 16gal tempo under the cockpit floor. I like the idea of freeing up the starboard seat locker. Tempo markets a diesel fuel adapter kit. If you use this kit, do you loose the use of a fuel guage. I looks like...

jhenson

Nathan, I have removed all of the old paint, and have been grinding and fairing with body filler, and the underside of the decks are a big improvement over what came from the factory. Hopefully I haven't weakened the bottom skins too much, but I have been feathering some of the rough edges of the cl...

jhenson

I need some suggestions on interior paint. I have ground off 4-5 layers of speckled green, brown, white and off-white paint (much of it peeling). The dust fills much of a 25 gallon trash can. The job has been less fun than paying taxes or practicing bleeding, but I am approaching the end. Laying on ...

jhenson

Can you take apart a marelon or bronze ball-valve seacock? I am familiar with tapered bronze seacocks and how to service them, but not ball valve seacocks. I'm just wondering how you service the newer type of seacocks. I guessing that you can grease them with you finger from above through the tail p...

jhenson

Thanks,

I wasn't aware there was a replacement rubber for these seals available.

Joe

jhenson

I have read the post on this forum that recommend butyl caulk for sealing portlight frames. Can anyone suggest a source for a tube of this? I live in a small town, and thus far haven't found it. Also, I have the bronze (early) Triton portlights. There is a 1/8" contiguous rubber seal that fits ...

jhenson

Thanks for the info. I was pretty sure that I would have to limit the use to the stock 35amp alternator. Yanmar's are great engines. I own an extra (free) tractor engine (a 3tna-72 18hp with only 300 hours on it). If I could figure out a way to marinize it, I would throw it in there. I know that the...

jhenson

Tim, Thanks as always. This boat will spend most of it's near term life in the confines of the somewhat protected waters of the Chesapeake. I am some years away from cruising the Atlantic coast and am not sure that I'll do so in a Triton (although I don't omit the possibility). That said, I guess I ...

jhenson

I'm getting a sense that if one were to repower a Triton with a Yanmar, that the 2GM is probably ideal. I am wondering if a 1GM would be way underpowered for this application?

Joe

jhenson

Yep, your right Tim- won't fit!. I just measured the platform. The only way the toilet will fit would be to raise it yet another inch or two. At that height, hypoxia might start to be an issue.

Back to the drawing board.

Joe

jhenson

At the Annapolis Sailboat Show last year, I got some literature on the the Sealand 711 MSD. This toilet has an intergrated 9.5 gallon holding tank that is attached below the bowl. See: http://www.sealandtechnology.com/productpages.asp?pid=37 In keeping with an earlier post on simplifying MSD systems...

jhenson

I am not familiar with bilgekote. What needs to be done to prep an area that maybe can't be reached well with a power sander (such as the the aft section of the bilge)? I have thought of wire brushing or just hitting it with a power washer. Obviously, the dirt has to go first. Having the old style c...

jhenson

Thanks for the picture. That looks very stoutly built!

Joe Henson

jhenson

I was just reading some of the threads after returning home from my last airline trip. I saw a breakdown of the costs to repair hull #122. Specifically, the cost to re-core her decks was estimated to be about $3000. I guess I am wondering how many people have made the necessary repairs with a less t...

jhenson

I just spoke in error. I didn't read the post carefully enough. Mine attach in the V-berth just about 8" ahead of the V-berth bulkhead.

Joe

jhenson

Those pictures of Britton are what I kinda thougt the setup would look like on a well done job. I was entertaining glassing over solid oak like the one in the head compartment. I think that my attachment point is exactly in the same location. Again, a padeye with these shrouds tensioned less than th...

jhenson

Here is a picture of the situation: http://home.earthlink.net/~jrhensonjr/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/100_2061.jpg The picture isn't very good because of the amount of dust in the v-berth area right now. I am grinding off old paint. The image is of the port side standing just ahead of the...

jhenson

I understand that early Tritons had only a single lower shroud. My boat had a set of forward lowers added a later date. I can see that the chain plate is of a different manufacture than the others. The problem lies in how they are secured below decks. The chainplates are attached to a piece of angle...

jhenson

It really is amazing that this addition to the keel is as fragile as it is considering the legendary toughness of the Triton hull. Eveything that is engineered by humans has a weekness somewhere, I guess When I began pulling thru-hulls, I confirmed what I understood to be the hull thickness. However...

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