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Hey Guys that is my first TRITON 346 Sepibajezus! Very cool to see the video! I made the sail on the boat too - they look like Dacron sails but they are not - they are laminate mylar sails -hot! What do you expect from a sailmaker. I sold the boat to Edward Curran, who as far as I know - still owns ...

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John, Zach, This past summer I lowered my mast while in the water by using a 'gin pole' - I learned how to do this first by watching the Etchells 22 sailors at the clubs raise and lower their masts with this method. I had a Soling mast that I cut down to 25 feet, I attached braided low stretch lines...

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I decided to stay in the water this winter - the winters are somewhat mild on coast this far south in Connecticut - I have the boat as close as a short walk down my street - my big project will be tossing the old A-4 back into the bilge along with all the other bits that accompany the engine. I have...

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You guys are killing me. No I have not been ignoring this "list thing" but having started several lists only to abandon the effort after realizing that I basically need to do everything - I would like to include the very important priority of the consumption of cold beer and the ingestion ...

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Tony - what arrangements are you planning on other than the solar panel to charge the batteries.

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I now want a degree in HooHaa too! English is fine for most things but I now understand [almost] that HooHaa has many advantages over english.

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Floating Money Pit - Because there are few if any mooring fields in the Bay, dockage is pretty much the only option out side of dry sailing - which is not a viable option for your Tartan. Because much of the waterfront marinas are owned and run by the cities and towns around the bay it helps very mu...

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I did a fairly extensive search on this boat and came up empty handed. The most that I found on the Permacraft name was a short snippet of information about a guy who worked for Bertram Yachts, left Bertram and started Permacraft but the snippet was about a power boat not a sailboat. Let me know if ...

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Robert - what on earth are you thinking man! - Just mothball the boat for now. Spend a little time finding a place to store it for free or close to it - cover it well and come back to your boat when time and money allows. Having trucked my own Triton 346 out to Oakland myself - I can attest that Oak...

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yeah - I agree with you there - that boat needs a lot of work - and if four g's was such a great deal then it would not have been listed three times.

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Happy New Year ! All the best to all fellow Triton sailors as well as to all of our Plastic Classic brotheren. I am looking foward to completeing many of the ongoing projects on Jollyboat and more sailing adventures. In 2008 I also hope to meet up with other Triton sailors here in the Long Island So...

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Hello Jay, Triton 227 is correct in that the weight of the Atomic Four is 350 pounds including the transmission, which is integral, however, completely assembled with exhaust, batteries, starter, alternator or generator, fuel tank, blower, shift linkage, throttle control and finally shaft the weight...

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The float on the mooring is a great idea and much to the chagrin of the harbor master of the river that I moore 466 I have in the past put a 4' X 30' float on the mooring and then tied my boat to the float. It is a fantastic arrangement for the mooring bound as it makes depature and returns much eas...

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Jay, the stock Triton typically included 12 vt. electric lamps which work very well. Oil lamps are fun but as has been mentioned they can smell to the point of developing headaches - but I would never be without at least one nice oil lamp anyway. On 346 I had six oil lamps, with clean paraphin lamp ...

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Hello Jay - Those are good questions - I will start with the oil - yes you should store this empty - this is also a good time to trim the wick. Oil can spill out of lamps as well as just evaporate. I doubt that any harm would come to your lamp if it sat for 24 months undisturbed but I can say for ce...

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Having grown up sailing the soupy warm waters of the Connecticut shores of Western Long Island Sound, I have seen my fair share of windless days with humidity oppressively high. As a youngster in my early twenties and finding myself the proud skipper of a Triton, these seemingly benign conditions le...

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The whole idea of falling overboard is scary stuff. It would be good practice to jump overboard (while with skilled, strong crew) while the boat is underway to see how long it would take you get back on board with no help. Even with jack lines I am afraid that drowning a real possibility anyway. I d...

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Oh that is funny - but a good question. Yeah what he said, - Joe what gives with your boats driveway angle! Oh, and by the way - sweet cap rail Joe. <grins>

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I can recall many vivid sunsets while sailing 346 on the Bay - what a spot! Great pictures Robert The Gray - makes me want go back with more snow on the way on Thursday. Get you snow shovel out Figment - looks like we are in for some build up.

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Rachel, You would still get all of same effects with this flue arrangement as the act of circulation would still prevail with the difference in temptures from both outside of the boat but also from the unheated areas of the boat. Air movement can be tested/wintnessed with the smoke from a, match,cig...

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[quote-No worries here as I am not easily spoked. I realized moving up from my Bluenose Sloop, which was based on an old race herself, that I would have to work a bit to keep the light air capabilities. I appreciate the heads up so I can start really looking at this. And after all, with a SA/D ratio...

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Oh - I see - yes that is a very interesting method - I like it. In as far as the stove is concerned might you consider the starboard bulkhead for this. With it's being set in about a foot this makes a cozy little spot for stoves.

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Zach, Great job so far on the boat. I do not know what your plans are for ice box but with your future intentions including some long range cruising this might be a good time to rebuild the ice box that will 1. hold ice longer 2. is of a design that will allow for you to remove the ice box in the fu...

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Tim - You are correct on your hunch as to why the threads on many common house hold 110volt AC devices are knurled. AC or Alternating Current vibrates as when - if you can focus for long enough while being electricuted (been there) - it can be felt as a stream of close pulses. Anyway, the knurled th...

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OK - well Pearson was very much into 'debrouillard' - otherwise know as 'system D' must have purchased those babies from Brigs and Stratton <grins>

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Mike isnt that the set up for the Choke cable? The thottle cable arrangement is basically the same thing except the 'cable clamps' are specifically designed for 'throttle cables' where as in the picture that you have posted - the cable shown is not a standard 'throttle cable'. Eitherway - the mechan...

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Britton - Yes - do a search on Morse Cable Fittings or Morse Control Cable Fittings. The cable clamps come in a variety of styles and shapes for different uses and set-ups. You may also check out the Moyer Marine web-site as I am pretty sure that Moyer offers the entire set up as a whole or in separ...

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Agreed - I am always showing off what improvements I have made to my boat. Strange that this person would consider repairs, maintenance and the like to be possible detractions. I would guess not a member of this forum either.

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Scout - you are scaring me - you already have a better yacht (my opinion)

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Quote -(Complete set of sails damaged in fire for pattern only.)

Yeah, . . thanks - but we would need to use the tape measure for this one.

Amazing what a little time and even less money will do for a boat.

Wake Up!

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Tim,
It is not too late to follow through - even with your headsail being a radial cut the tack can be re-cut. Not that much work to do.

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Seems to me if you find a good rigger who has a shop that the parts you have could be rebuilt for a little less - but then again it will be a time and material job so you are still facing down at least $65 dollars and hour plus material. Looks to me like an adjustable headstay arrangement could be i...

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Quote -"The original parts to rebuild, not included the housing cost $241 from the current builder, which seems quite pricey to me." Given the extent of the Bolero project - $241.00 for the right parts for the right job do not seem too expensive to me. Unless this arrangment is not going t...

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Jeff, I have never worked with water based polyurethane so cannot add much to that, however, I do use an oil base polyurethane on my Tritons interior and exterior woodwork and am pleased with the outcome of the finish and durability.

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[quote="Quetzalsailor"]Great idea to check progress with a scale. Building upon that, it might be useful to plot weight against time, since there's no way to know where you're going. Yes, you can get a good idea of where you are going if by "going" you mean a given starting point...

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By the sounds of it there already is a lot of fairing to do - but foil fairing is not that hard really - a drag/lift formula of 35% max draft aft on the cord from the leading edge would be fine. Even if no camber were used - the 30 gals of fuel 100 gallons of water and basic cruising gear do more to...

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You may be challenged to remove all of the moisture. In what is described in the rudders construction this can be difficult. I have seen vacuum bagging used to assist in removing water that appears to be successful. In concern to the "furnace technique" I would make some accurate recording...

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Zach, I have used a side mount engine system for the last year on 466. This arrangement does work with varying degrees of success and frustration. I purchased new from Spartan Marine their cast bronze removable outboard bracket. Because of the lack of weight of 466 in general not to mention the lack...

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227 - Welcome to the fleet. Good job on your purchase of a Triton. These are wonderful boats and with some TLC Tritons just keep giving and giving. As far as outboards on Tritons are concerned - yes this has been done with varying degrees of success but this arrangment will never offer the character...

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This appears to be 'barks up the wrong tree'. Our bilges, though often will see some water at some time are not supposed to hold water for prolonged periods of time. It is not so much what is used in the bilge to seal it - it is to eliminate as much water infiltration as possible and remove what wat...

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It may not be the same boat but I m pretty sure I saw this Vangard for sale on e-bay and yes it was in pretty ruff shape - what surprised me was how much was being asked for the boat. The boat should be given away to the next caretaker.

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Quote-Since I never planned on going to Portugal, I didn’t even have good large-scale charts. I missed that when I first scanned through the story - I too wonder what the "plan" was - 'head east young man!' - This maybe worth a letter to Mr. King to find out what he was up to. Maybe he was...

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Issue Date: November/December 2007, Posted On: 11/9/2007 A radar-assisted passage By: BY Richard King I recently sailed my 28-foot Pearson Triton, Fox, from Portland, Maine, to Portugal. I assumed that my interactions with ships would be minimal. The reality, however, was a bit different, and I was ...

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[quote=" I poked a few holes around my ballast and into the keel void on my Vanguard. Drained lots o water. Found a lot of mung around the ballast soaked balsa I believe and some wonderful foam smells delicious. Bill - Would it be possible to take a few pictures of what it is that you are descr...

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No, I will keep the lead for time being - but man oh man my last sail of the season was super fast. I was really surprised - weight really does make a huge difference. I was actually thinking of getting another Triton and really, really going to town on it. No - I am not going to do that either - I ...

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I agree about the Triton - I knew the day that I sold 346 that it wouldn't be long before I started looking for another Triton. I have been lucky to look at and sail a lot of different boats, but for what I am doing and looking for in a boat - the Triton fits the bill very well. I will say, however ...

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Jeff, I am not an engineer nor architect and so my capacity to make accurate comment as to the influence of load types and acceptable tolerances of construction techniques in buildings is limited at best. In regard to sails, thier construction and tolerances, with a focus on sailing vessels 50 feet ...

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All five fundamental load types act on booms at the various points of sail: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion with the most common being compression from the boom end into the mast and bending with the clew force causing upward tension on the on spar and the downward load applied wit...

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All - Thank you for the insight on the Triton cabin top traveler and mid-boom sheeting position. This something that I am definitely going to follow through with - at least to the point where I might find what I feel would be a better main sheet running arrangement. I agree with Tim, in that in many...

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