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jhenson

[completely unrelated question] Maybe it's just the camera angle, but I'm curious how your boat hauler managed to drop your boat at such an angle to your driveway, since he'd have to pull straight out from beneath and it looks like the driveway is at a completely incompatible angle. (Sorry...weird ...

jhenson

Thanks David!

Joe

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So, the outer surface (curve) of the caprail is indexed to the inner surface of the toerail?

No. That guage only does the inside curve. For the outside, I just use a 3/8" thick batten pressed against the hull. The line is drawn on the underside of the plank.

Joe

jhenson

I have made a bit more progress this week and have shaped most of the port side rail. This was the process of marking off the third section: http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/crail3.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/crail2.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/...

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But regardless of how one describes it, it looks great! Thanks Dave! That ipe must be hell on the iron, though! Ipe is hard and does dull tools fairly quickly, but it’s definitely workable. I remember a short article about it a couple of years ago in American Woodworker magazine that showed a guy s...

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Where did you souce you IPE??? I am going to have to replace my rails one of these days and need a good supplier. Ric, The Ipe comes from Vienna Hardwoods. The supply on hand was not that plentiful recently, but they can get it from their wholesale supplier in a couple of days. They have both 4/4 a...

jhenson

Ask and ye shall receive:

It is hardly an essential tool to own, but it works well for planing curved surfaces.

Joe

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There is thankfully no bending involved (this wood is very stiff). The other half of the scarf joint will be cut and refined in the second plank first. The plank will next be screwed down temporarily to the boat. I'll use a 3/8" batten to mark the outside curve, and a homemade guage to scribe t...

jhenson

My A35 actually has a two piece cap. The solid top rail and a 3/4 thick outer rail that is probably there as a sacrificial piece. Is the main section of the rail substantially thinner than the outside lamination on your A35. If so, I can understand the reasons for that. I can already see that the c...

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Mike, Thanks! This is kind of exciting to finally do something other than fiberglass work. Are you planning on a small piece beneath the caprail on the hull surface? (a "stool" in architectural parlance) No, this thing is just a cap that sits on the top of the existing rail. I deliberated ...

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I started the process of milling the cap rails this week. The weather is too cold to continue with fairing the rails they attach to, but I think they are close enough to measure the cap sections. I began by making a prototype of two rail sections out of pine to primarily figure out the measuring jig...

jhenson

Congratulations!

I looked over the the pictures of her on the ebay ad.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pearson- ... dZViewItem

She looks good for only $650.

Joe

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I spent probably at least 25-30 hours of work smoothing out the interior of my Triton. It’s a big, big job. I went through almost 3 gallons of filler to do the whole interior, as well. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/interfair1.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/in...

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Mike,

I have a pretty good picture of what you are talking about. I will post some pictures when I get going on this little project.

Thanks again,

Joe

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Tim,

Thanks for the help!

Joe

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Dig out a bit of that joint and extend a little bit of the toerail/curb farther forward. I confess that I really didn't understand what you were saying initially. Thanks for the captions. Do I need to laminate some biax material on the forward side of the toerail? How about from below? If so, how m...

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Mike,

Hull #114. Pretty close to yours.

Thanks for the advice. I wouldn't have thought of that. I need to cut a new opening anyway, since I have been a little sloppy with fairing compound.

Joe

jhenson

Let?s see:

-continue fairing anytime the temperature goes over 60 degrees

-replace v-berth bunks

-replace settee fronts

-repair aft cabin bulkhead

-replace cabin sole

-replace shaft log

I have about 1000 small jobs to do also on the CAL 27 when it goes on the hard.

Joe

jhenson

The temperature is up to about 70 degrees today, so I am spot fairing the decks and starting on the obvious sections of the hull. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/moref1.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/moref2.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/m...

jhenson

Great Pictures! Looks like a fun day. The boat had the top four members of the forum in terms of numbers of posts.

http://www.triton381.com/forum/memberli ... 222bb27e0c

I counted 10,338 between the four of you.

I guess there was plenty to talk about!

Joe

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Don,

I really enjoyed your blog. You are moving right along! That nifty boat awning looks familiar.

Joe

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Figment, I?m just starting to work on fairing the hull in the next week or so. I need to do quite a bit of work where the toerails were modified, but there are also lots of other areas that need work. Some of them are self-induced when I decided to rush the paint removal process. Others are imperfec...

jhenson

I bought my Triton in 2004 for $3500 on ebay. I?m having a hard time today understanding why I paid that for it, but I did. The boat had spongy decks, a broken bow rail, a false keel that could be peeled open, flaking interior paint, and all the other traits of a Triton that has never had a major re...

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Britton, It feels like a lot of work!! You?re right though, I need to post pictures more often. The side decks, with this awning frame is less than ideal to say the least. Maybe we will both have newly painted Tritons in the spring!!! I can?t seem to resolve the issue of topside color yet, so it is ...

jhenson

I know these pictures are a bit boooooring, but I'm excited to be closing in on fair decks. Please forgive the poor qualitiy of the photos, as well. It was a rainy day here today. So, I vacuumed dust all day, and took these shots under the tarp. I have been off from work this week spending my time a...

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Pete,

Congratulations on your Triton. It looks like you are doing the work at home. What are your plans for the refit ahead?

Joe

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Hmmm......

Maybe I should put in some more pedestals for bar stools toward the back of the cockpit and convert a locker for cold beer access like the one aboard Figment.

Just a few more small deck modifications.

jhenson

Thanks Jason and Tim. The inspiration came from some discussion some time ago about the Albin Vega when Peter bought his. http://www.triton381.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1539&highlight=albin http://home.casema.nl/k.oppermans/albinvega/data/fotos/tn(5).jpg I thought it would be nice to have the ab...

jhenson

Thanks Britton.

Joe

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This is hopefully the last modification to the decks that I will be doing before fairing and painting. The plan is to build a table that uses a removable pedestal for both the cabin and cockpit. To that end, I acquired the beefiest table pedestal system I could find with the hope of using a single p...

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Unfortunately, I don?t have any close-up shots of the grounded raft-up. I thought it was bad enough taking two boys gawking, pointing, and asking questions by them while they struggled with fenders to keep the brand new gelcoat on both boats from being damaged. Although, every other sailor that pull...

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We just returned from a marvelous 30 mile round trip cruise this weekend to Dunn Cove on Tilghman Island. The weather was delightful. My boys had a blast! http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/triton114/Knapps1.jpg Approaching Knapps Narrows Bridge in a stiif breeze http://i63.photobucket.com/album...

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It looks like you have been busy! Britton, I have had a good week of warm weather, and I need to get going again in earnest on the project. Are you moving right along towards paint this fall? I don't think, given the amount of fairing, that I'll get paint on the decks befor the weather changes. Wil...

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Filled with chopped strand and silica? I am using silica/chopped glass strand per Tim?s suggestion. The resulting structure seems pretty sound, but will require considerable fairing. The luan plywood only gets the curve ?about? right. Furthermore, despite making a custom squeegy, I failed to get a ...

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This week, I started to modify the molded toe rails on my boat to accept a wooden cap. I worked on the port section this week and I hope to get to the starboard section next week. I started by sanding off the old gelcoat from the rails. I then used a thin cutoff wheel on the my right angle grinder t...

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I'm kinda curious what effect on weather helm, if any, moving the forestay forward a foot or so onto a sprit like was done on Dorothy G . Are there other modern sloops that have a fractional rig and sprit combination, or is this only done with masthead rigs? Also, how effective have rudder modificat...

jhenson

Congratulations!

Good luck with your project!

Joe

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I had a website, and hope to eventually start another one sometime soon.

Joe

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On your drip pan - I'm confused. That picture is looking forward towards the aft end of your engine mounts, right? Your bilge pump will be mounted underneath the floor or whatever that is in the top of the picture, and the hose will run under the drip pan and exit aft (bottom of picture)? That's al...

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Mike, Unfortunately, I don?t have any pictures of the drip pan under construction. I haven?t been that good lately in documenting the work done on my Triton. The drip pan was made by scribing a line up the hull in the bilge equal to the outside thickness of bilge pump hose, plus the fiberglass thick...

jhenson

but I obsess over everything...

Wow, I can relate to that!!!

jhenson

Britton,

Are you relocating the deck drains to a better location, or just removing them altogether?

Joe

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I would say that I have around 10 hours or so if you include the time spent on the frame structure from about 1 ? years ago. That said, I?m not very efficient at doing these fabrication projects for the first time, though I have found making things like the seat lockers, engine control recess, and c...

jhenson

I have yet to test the latches and gasket material for fit. The lid edges have plenty of thickness so I can remove material as necessary if the hatch is too difficult to close. I may have to waste a little gasket material in the fitting process though.

jhenson

Nathan, I don't yet have a trailer for it. The boat came from some personal friends of ours who used the original trailer also for their jon boat. They kept the trailer for their other boat though they allow us the use of it. The situation is less than ideal. I have transported it on the back of my ...

jhenson

It looks like it will look better, be cooler than aluminum, and stronger than plastic. Nice job.

Jason,

Thanks. I hope that will all be true AND most importantly be leak proof. We will see. Are you enjoying the new boat?

Joe

jhenson

Ric, I recently got an AMF puffer for my boys for the exact same reasons you stated. I bet you ?d want something bigger for 3 kids, but there is one on the Baltimore Craigs List. http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/boa/376261553.html I didn?t pay nearly that much, but this one might be in better ...

jhenson

Last week, I started working on my own homemade version of what (hopefully) will be a leak proof, offshore quality engine access hatch in the cockpit. I have a ways to go on it, but I managed to get the basic lid glued up a couple of days ago. I know this may seem unnecessary given the availability ...

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Tim, Maybe this should be obvious to me, but how do you mask off the beautiful tight radius turns and arcs for the nonskid around the fuel filler? Is the tape cut with a sharp pair of scissors before applying it to the deck? Do you go to the trouble to make a pattern first, or just cut it by "e...

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I'm happy to report that this engine is running cool again.? My thanks to everyone who contributed to the thread, especially Ceasar for pointing me in the direction of Dick Vosbury at Vosbury Marine!??Dick Vosbury is a very nice guy?knows these old Volvo Penta engines?like Don Moyer knows the?Atomic...

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