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Paulus

Got my hands on a blooper sail that will fit my boat... 35ft luff, 23ft foot and 28 ft leech. Makes for a funny looking light air sail and I don't have the spinnaker to got with it, which I learned it is designed to work with. It needs a small tear fixed, which would be an easy and fun project, but ...

Paulus

The concept is correct and makes sense - the 10% (or whatever number) of breaking strenght correctly, as you pointed out, creates a correlation between wire size and preloading to overcome stretch problems. A friend of mine got dismasted in a big powerboat wake. The root cause analysis was that the ...

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I don't want to be a stickler, but the difference between... "Your aim should be to tension the cap shrouds to 15-20% of the breaking load (the final check on tuning should be left until you are under sail). Then you know that the lateral staying is optimal both for the security of the rig and ...

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Rachel wrote:Well, you need to tune them to within about 10% of their breaking strength (no matter what size they are).

Why? I have a deck stepped mast and if I were to follow this rule, I would certainly have deck compression...

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Given this group's insatiable (is that a word?) appetite for pictures, I did find two in my stack that (sort of) show the support posts which held the masts last winter season… Just to give you an idea… Cockpit re-polysulfited :-) sanded and sealed: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/Dutchessc22...

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Excellent post, Tom - you are re-invigorating my desire to do it right… I may just re-install the frame system I had last year and store the masts on the boat under the 40 x 40 tarp. It worked well keeping all the elements off the finish while also providing a workshed for the boat… Basically consis...

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I will take a picture of the setup on Saturday (might be snow covered... brrrr) - you will see that there is some kind of cover already - through the sheeer number of masts stored above it.. I do realize it will see lots of dripping, but no real direct sun.

Paulus

The PO of my boat recommended to splash a small amount of diesel fuel in with the Epiphanes when using it on the spars... said that was what he did each year since he became her owner in 1992.

The spars look magnifficent.

Paulus

When I clicked on this post, it took me to page 1 to start and of course the first entry is for "Mast Confusion". Although I had seen this many times, this evening for some reason I immediately wondered (and hoped) that she had more than one mast. Preferably, she's a gaff rigged schooner ...

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I have room to store them indoors at my house as well as a friends house who has a huge carriage building attached. The problem is getting them there - the main is 35ft and the mizzen 27 ft. I know of ways to do so, but the trouble and cost involved I don't think offer a better option than to manage...

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Rack does not have a cover over it, though there are so many other masts stored there - two racks, about 10 ft tall each, with masts on both sides of the verticals, I'd say about two dozen of them, so very little UV will reach my masts, which are on the second to bottom rung. I thought about housewr...

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I have no option but to store my sitka spruce masts outside this winter, on a mast rack. some say cover them/wrap them, others say this will seal in moisture and rub the finish... they are in perfect shape with fresh coats of Epiphases applied this past spring, which will be repeated next spring... ...

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Glad it's you and not -you-know-who-, Kurt...

Paulus

My son, while at the Maine Maritime Academy, helped restore Falcon (owned by "Bob and Pam") and Sapphire - both S&S NY 32 class yachts. While he was working on Sapphire, Olin Stephens stopped by the shop to look at one of his "girls"... It was not long after that, that he pa...

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My son, while at the Maine Maritime Academy, helped restore Falcon (owned by "Bob and Pam") and Sapphire - both S&S NY 32 class yachts. While he was working on Sapphire, Olin Stephens stopped by the shop to look at one of his "girls"... It was not long after that, that he pas...

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Hulukupu wrote:My grandmother and her sister used to sail a FD like that, but I have no pictures. Yours is beautiful.
And I'm envious of your travels- I lived on Borneo for a year.
Selamat jalan jalan.
David

Selamat Meluncur

Paulus

Looks like main mast position and lenght stays the same for sloop and yawl options.

Paulus

Congrats... I am contemplating doing the same trip - Great Loop - starting in NY Harbor - up and around Maine (St Lawrence), the Great Lakes, Ohio and Mississippi into the gulf, around Florida, up the East coast and back to NY Harbor... You did half that in three months, averaging 38 miles per day -...

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The command is corrupt - should identify it is a pic, like a .jpg or .bmp closing... yours ends with _z

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An automotive shop talked me into replacing the ball joints on my SUV a while ago - he showed me how much wobble and clearance there was with the car on the lift... He convinced me and I let him do the $1,200 job. When done, however, I asked him if he would put the car back on the lift and hand me t...

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East River and Hell Gate here in NY have the same reputation and carry the same cautions - Having done the Gate twice in my Seaward 23 and four times in the current Mariner 31, I can say it is quite uneventful, as long as you prepare for it and time it right... If you lived by everyone's advice and ...

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I used polysulfide when I put the hardware back on my sitka spruce masts. It seals, but stays forever flexible - is sandable and easily removeable/cuttable/trimmable.

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Balance, the sander has an eccentric bearing in the center around which the pad makes very rapid, tiny circles (orbits). As the sander ages and the bearing wears, it gets hot and the paint/shellac/fiberglass dirt starts sticking to it more and more seriously and after a while it gums up the works. W...

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BALANCE wrote: I'm a bit of a plain speaker...

Is your avitar Rachels feet?

Actually, the avatar shows someone's hindfoot, which is composed of the talus or ankle bone and the calcaneus or heel bone.

I doubt very much they belong to Rachel as there seems to be a hole in one of the socks.

Paulus

Paulus, how much time did you have between finishing last coat of Interprotect and starting 1st coat of bottom paint? How did you manage to find an 80 degree day? :) After a month of rain (April) and a stellar beginning of May...never saw 80 for too long though. Must be the diff between NJ and CT. ...

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It was a dry, windy and relatively warm (80 degrees) day...

Paulus

It sure sounds to me like the paint and activator failed to react... Perhaps you had an old, expired batch (check the can) or a one-off failed batch..

Either way, I guess it all has to come off.

Paulus

you need to plan the last coat of Interprotect and the first coat of bottom paint. The interprotect can not be completely dry. It should still be tacky when you put first coat of bottom paint on - this is key. After that, no time constraints. I was told the same thing - and did just that. Funny thi...

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Looking good!

Paulus

I don't know about y'all, but I'm pretty content in an old tee, down-at-the-heels Top-Siders, and ragged shorts. Can we not get that Dutch huckster off the Site? I am Dutch - English is my second language - and what is written as an intro to the trash you reference makes no sense (in Dutch) at all ...

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earlylight wrote:Paulus,

I hope you meant bronze screws and not brass. Brass will not last long in salt water.

Errrr.... bronze - you are correct - they are bronze, of course. Thanks for the correction.

Paulus

My tracks (three of them) are all mounted on the toe rail. http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/34338_1530507506838_1359255150_1402535_1864178_n.jpg The toerail is tall enough to acomodate 2.5" brass screws and is connected with through-bolts to the plywood decking and deck-hull conne...

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And now, for you perfectionists out there, the ultimate topside gloss...

Drool away...

Paulus

Wow, Zach - I can feel you passion for doing things "right". While I agree with everything you say, I have elected to pick the easier method and buy myself some time before the inevitable strip-down and re-do as you suggest. The cracks and flakes have been ground out and re-filled with pol...

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One more question - since most all glass boats have shiny hulls (sides) but eggshell topsides (decks) would one not want to duplicate this with plywood decks and cabin? I just primed the cabin sides and have taken a liking to the eggshell look.... Any opinions on why the preferred topsides paints se...

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I believe Formula 27 is basically Bondo which is talc mixed with polyester resin. I've used Bondo on a work boat of mine which was used daily for many years without any problems of water absorption. I think Formula 27 will be fine on a vertical surface but I would avoid using it where water stands ...

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Looks really nice - I like the wood/black contrast.

By the way, if you're the author, when reading your own post, you have the ability to edit (look on the bottom right hand corner of the post).

great work!

Paulus

Okay - update: The filler I bought is made by Evercoat and is Polyester based. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/Dutchessc22/IMG00027-20110406-1604.jpg According to the PO it should not matter because the parts of the cabin that are covered with glass mat also was soaked with polyester resin. S...

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Thanks Rachel... now I have to go check what kind of fairing compound I bought.... Since I bought it at the Marine store at the yard, one would hope it's the "right stuff"... About the moisture - would polyester/Bondo type compound still "see" moisture when covered with topsides ...

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The sides of my cabin are glass covered plywood and the PO, or his yard, used fairing compound to smoothen the sides before applying topsides paint... The paint + fairing compound is now "shattering" and there are major cracks - compound is lifting all over the place - without any clear ca...

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Does it look like this? http://www.baselinemarine.com/images/prod_imgs/SS2140.jpg The one I have on Guillemot looks like this: http://www.svsarah.com/Sarah/Images/ABI%20Highfield%20Lever.jpg Maybe here? http://www.baselinemarine.com/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=165&cat=Forestay+Levers%2C+Adjusters...

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On Guillemot, the overhead surfaces - between mahogany "rafters" (go ahead and correct the term) Hi Paulus, I can't tell if you are being a little bit snarky about Dave's and my letting Ben know about how the term "ceiling" is used in a boat, or if you really would like to know ...

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On Guillemot, the overhead surfaces - between mahogany "rafters" (go ahead and correct the term) are covered with a vinyl/rubberish, textured, wallpaper material - glued onto the surfaces. In my opinion, the textured surface nicely hides the coarse wood grain of the plywood and overall giv...

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Perhaps I'm missing something here...but I'll throw out a couple thoughts. If I'm following this thread correctly it seems that your uppers & lowers on the mizzen are "switched" ant we are talkng about running backstays to support the loads of a staysail - a sail most ketch/yawl build...

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I suspect the load a staysail places on your mizzen in 10 knots of wind is no more than the mizzen would if sailing under jib/jigger in 20 knots of wind... True, However, the mizzen sheet puts some of the load on the aft deck still and the sail/boom/sheet combo still provides for considerable balan...

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What's on board already? Not if you are alone. I don't get it - what is not there if you're alone? On my boat I have two safety harnesses, a bossun's chair, a gazillion lines, including many pieces of "extra line" and I know (now) how to tie a prusic knot or two. Both of my masts have dou...

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Any thoughts on just using what's on board already - a halyard, some extra line, make some loops and prusic knots, tie it all off to a harness? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1RSzKkBOWc&feature=related It is amazing to me how manufacturers of equipment can create a dependency and charge extreme...

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I may be wrong, but the impression I'm under regarding the mizzen running back is that it's a single stay which is deployed on one side or the other to counteract the mizzen staysail, when it's deployed (and is also always on one side or the other, and removed to tack or gybe). I doubt that it woul...

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The running backstay sits on the side of the boom - not behind it. As one tacks (or jibes), the running backstay needs to be released and re-set on the opposite side. At least that is the way I understand it to work. I guess the re-setting can be done with the boom temporarily centered and the Mizze...

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To not continue to hyjack bigd14' s Ericson 27 Project thread, (sorry bigd) I figured I would finish up over here - this pic shows the top of the mizzen http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/Dutchessc22/IMG00021-20110327-1730.jpg The existing line is the topping lift; the second piece of bracket on...

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