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Chris Campbell

Hi Zach, I don't have the page in Skene's, but this page on RigRite's site is probably useful, given that you know your clevis pin size - it gives the size of the chainplate they sell for each pin size, and its material. I know once Rachel sees this she'll have a better reference for you, and I'll k...

Chris Campbell

I'm in awe. My recore has dragged on for a month with me fearful of screwing it up at every step - you managed in a long day more than I have to date! Wow. And thanks for the detailed description of everything you did - others performing the same job will have a much easier time because of it. Congr...

Chris Campbell

Just read on Tim's Lackey Sailing site that on both Glissando and Iota he cut out layers of glass and laminated in place. I've ordered more of the 1708 since I was going to run out anyway, so now there's no reason not to laminate glass in place (other than the blister I've gotten on my thumb from th...

Chris Campbell

Cutting out core and preparing cloth for the solid spots - and have a question: do I need to actually lay up with cloth, or would it be just as good to mix up batches of epoxy thickened with chopped cloth? Seems to me that the strength I need where it's solid is just compressive, not in shear or any...

Chris Campbell

Ah! She's lovely! And for what you want her for, I think you've selected well. What a nice history she's had, also.

Congratulations!

Chris Campbell

Welcome! And thanks for the informative and picture-filled first post! Your new spreaders look great - you'll have to send us a picture of them up when they get there. And perhaps one of your boat? I found this one by Googling - they look lovely! Congratulations on getting back to sailing - and I'm ...

Chris Campbell

My last boat was a 38 footer, my current boat is a 30. I didn't find the 38 difficult to singlehand, or difficult to take out for a short sail - she was set up with systems to make that easy - autopilot to steer while I dealt with sailhandling (hoisting/reefing/handing the main, at the mast); Dutchm...

Chris Campbell

Good luck with your epoxy mixing - I share your anxiety. If it helps I have a buddy who watches his coworkers pour gallon buckets of mixed-on-the-fly epoxy from taps in the wall when they lay up racing boats - I figure if it's safe to mix a gallon at a time (and then use it pretty quickly, no doubt!...

Chris Campbell

Now I know a bit more, thanks to Google: http://www.sailingtexas.com/srainbow24a.html http://www.baileywick.org/pot.htm http://drinian.org/sailing/rainbow/ http://www.sailboattraderonline.com/find/listing/1970-Tidewater-Rainbow-24-84589748 http://www.sailingtexas.com/srainbow24b.html http://www.sail...

Chris Campbell

Don't know a thing about them - but it looks lovely! classic lines, with a fin keel and spade rudder, hard to go wrong there!

Please share anything else you find out, and of course if you happen to have pictures to share, please do so!

Cheers,

Chris

Chris Campbell

Quite right. I'll do that, just in case - and put them in reasonable proximity to something else that I can find later, hopefully...

Chris Campbell

Yes, good luck indeed! An ambitious undertaking, but it sounds like you're up for it. We will indeed root and cheer from the sidelines, and offer what we can by way of solutions, should mysteries present themselves.

May it all go smoothly!

Chris Campbell

Absolutely! No way I will let any water anywhere near my fresh balsa!

I'm going to spend more time tonight creating areas of solid core - I'd also forgotten about the handrails. There sure are a lot of holes in a cabin top, even when you eliminate the halyards going aft.

Cheers,

Chris

Chris Campbell

Thanks for the reply, Tim - that's what I had felt about it, and it seems in keeping with the original construction, which is of course a good sign. Not that the original construction in all ways should be taken as "the way to do things" - balsa core at the deck edge with nothing protectin...

Chris Campbell

Lots of time has flowed by since my last update on the recore - but I haven't given up, nor have I stopped working on it, it's just that I've slowed down for a variety of reasons. Hopefully that slow period is over now, however, and I will be able to put this part of the project behind me in the nex...

Chris Campbell

I think it'd make a great camper-shelter. I wouldn't put the knee walls on it again if I were redoing it - I'd make the bows longer (in my case they would have been 22'). Or I suppose you could do that trick you often see where the knee walls are concrete block with earth piled up to them, making th...

Chris Campbell

Thanks for sharing. And congratulations on getting fixed up so quickly - very disconcerting to find that your attachment to the steering has gone, isn't it! I think your idea of having the inside of the bolt holes isolated by something better than a bit of dripped varnish is a good one, too. I think...

Chris Campbell

Here's one possibility: http://www.idasailor.com/catalog/default.php
Or I've heard they're very satisfying to build, but haven't done it myself.

More importantly - tell the story of how it broke!

Chris Campbell

I've babbled about my shed enough recently, but in case anyone is still interested, and in keeping with the thread's request, here's a link to my site's past, with blog entries on the shed's construction: http://www.ramoak.com/yankee30/past/ , and one to the image gallery of the shed: http://www.ram...

Chris Campbell

Hi Brian, Hopefully John Tarbox will respond to this thread, or has already PM'ed or emailed you. He's redone his portlights on Altaire - the originals were intact, but leaking, and he was concerned with making them stronger for doing some bluewater passages. I don't know the details of what he did,...

Chris Campbell

Hi Brian, Great documentation of your work! And what a job you're doing - I'm really glad to see that you're "not messing around" and are digging in to get things done right. The LeComtes are definitely worth it. I'll try to be thorough with this reply since much of what you asked are thin...

Chris Campbell

bcooke wrote:If standing headroom is what you want you might consider the route my neighbor took...

Oh my.

Chris Campbell

Very slick!

Chris Campbell

Do you have any pictures you can share of either installation, in use, furled, and taken down?

Chris Campbell

Aargh. Remove all of it and go back to foot pumps?

Chris Campbell

Ah, beautiful.

Thanks!

Chris

Chris Campbell

Congratulations on splashing! And on surviving another 5 hour ordeal on top of the engine. I feel your pain - except that we don't have that kind of heat up here (almost ever - definitely not in June) But I have spent time on top of the motor of a Northeast 38. I decided that it was coming from some...

Chris Campbell

Congratulations!

Chris Campbell

Seems he was serious when he said he wasn't sure he wanted to sell! That's a drag for you. As far as trailerable and the Tartan 27 goes - I'm trailering my Yankee 30, it's just a different kind of trailering, where the benefit is that I can bring the boat home for the winter without a boat hauler (w...

Chris Campbell

Nice work! She's looking good, and it won't be long now 'till you're sailing. I am, of course, envious of everyone who will launch this year, but have only myself to blame.

Congrats, and keep keeping us posted!

Cheers,

Chris

Chris Campbell

As Tim says, some water is inevitable with a deep bilge, but you'll get the most out with a diaphram-type pump. That way you can have it pumping water until the bilge is empty and then a little longer (they're fine for operating dry) to pull most of the water in the line through. A pump switch with ...

Chris Campbell

Congratulations! I don't envy you lying on the engine for hours on end, I can tell you! Must be a relief to have it out of the way, and know that it's all in better shape than when you started, though. As far as aligning the engine goes, how about using an angled mirror on a stick? Won't get you as ...

Chris Campbell

Congratulations! She's gorgeous, and you must be very proud and satisfied! I installed a check valve in my last boat's deep-bilge installation and it didn't work - the pump couldn't push uphill against a hose full of water. No problem continuing to push it when it got started empty, though, as you'v...

Chris Campbell

I have a cheap Black and Decker that I sometimes curse and wish for a better saw - but in it's favour I do have to say that it cut the cabin top of my boat into 1" squares without complaining. So I'm not sure it's the saw that's to blame for my grumping at it after all. The quality of the blade...

Chris Campbell

Sure can - although obviously not quickly!

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I'm currently chamfering all the existing holes through the lower skin and liner and will fill them today in preparation for (hopefully) laying the core tomorrow.

Chris Campbell

Oh! I feel for you! I too have been there - but I've never had such a beautiful, completely unmarred boat to do it in. I have experienced the first scratch in a new car, though, and can try to put two and two together. Ouch! Good for you for sharing the whole experience with us through your blog - t...

Chris Campbell

Not knowing whether or not there is a reason to avoid the pink stuff would be enough to keep me away from it, I think. Especially given the amount of work you're putting into this boat to rebuild the amas - is the cost of the pretty small amount of foam core you'll need to create some bulkheads wort...

Chris Campbell

Wow! Your boat looks beautiful - great job on the brightwork! I'm sure others will have more to say about the spreader socket, but here's my opinion (free, and worth every penny!): the new socket looks stronger than the old, and the old way worked for how many years? I wouldn't worry about it. I als...

Chris Campbell

Roger's Reefing Refinement is indeed a beaut! While it's possible to remove the slack in the second reef line after taking in the first reef, not having to think about it is elegant and slick. Now - will it work with three reefs? On the surface maybe yes, maybe no. That'll give me something to think...

Chris Campbell

I should have updated this thread some time ago - I made good progress the weekend before last, essentially getting to the point where I'm ready to put things back together. Since then I've been slowed down/stalled by work and now - get this - a raccoon who moved into my boat and had babies! She's n...

Chris Campbell

When I picked up my Yankee 30 in Addison I used Toppins Diesel Marine (from Columbia) to get me out of the seller's front yard and down to Eastport where I used a travelift to put the boat on my trailer. The guy from Toppins was excellent - a real professional, with excellent equipment. The Brownell...

Chris Campbell

Bill wrote:Isn't hooking to one ring on a pair of rings sewn to a webbed strap a pretty common practice for the reef tack? Would the same concerns over the grommet integrity exist there?

Not sure, I always hooked onto both rings with a hook attached to the gooseneck by a ring and a shackle.

Chris Campbell

This may turn into a bit of a ramble - hopefully I won't offend or bore you too much. The purpose of reefing is to reduce the power that the sail generates so that you can stand up to heavier air. This can be accomplished in more than one way - first, by flattening the sail out, second, by reducing ...

Chris Campbell

Regarding sewage and Canadian waters, we're generally pretty slack, and you can actually pump right over the side in most places. There is a specific schedule of places where you can't, rather than a blanket statement with exceptions. Here's a link to the places where you can't dump directly overboa...

Chris Campbell

If that makes my Yankee jealous we're both in trouble - I can't help but notice a pretty boat! I looked at Bluenoses before buying my Roue R/20 - and you can't sail around here without being very aware of them. In Chester Harbour last summer I counted at least 25 easily - and the sign up sheet at th...

Chris Campbell

http://www.joelro.com/wjr/BluenoseClass/sloop.html http://www.joelro.com/wjr/index.html http://www.nsbluenoseclass.com/ http://www.transomboatworks.com/BoatsForSaleBluenoseSloop.htm http://kingston.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-boats-BLUENOSE-SLOOP-W0QQAdIdZ128292474 http://bluenosesloop.blogspot.com/2...

Chris Campbell

I never liked the look of the back of the sail when reefed, bunched up under the reefing line - but it didn't seem to affect it in the long run. As Tim said, the sail will soften over time anyway. That said, I can definitely relate to your angst - a beautiful, crisp sail being twisted and scrunched ...

Chris Campbell

So the indentation is in the top skin, which is all that is left there. How rigid is it? Will pushing up on it with plywood bring it back to flat? I would think that now that you've removed the rotted core it's only still down since it's somehow gotten used to being that way, and that if you push it...

Chris Campbell

Oh no! Another thing to soak up my time! That's really cool. The Seajacks Kraken just left Halifax Harbour (we watched it go past Portuguese Cove and turn East, up the coast), and there it is! Very fun. On the other hand, the German Navy left after it (a destroyer (I think) and a supply ship) - and ...

Chris Campbell

Stainless and bronze underwater do make a battery, which is why stainless prop shafts w/bronze props have zincs attached. And a zinc disappears (or nearly) in a season in many locations.The other thing is that stainless is not really a very good underwater metal, which makes me question using it at ...

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