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by Robert The Gray
Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:02 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

these are shorter clips. we have had some nice weather here lately, stormy from the north. sailing very very fast for the triton.

neuvoclipage`

I would say to all forum members, if you visit we will sail.
I am going to work on the pole cam some more.

'ta

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by Robert The Gray
Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:41 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

N, When reaching in flat water, I like to sit on the lee side, lean back on the extended main sheet and steer with the foot. The look of the stable shear line and horizon divided by the everchanging bow wave begins to create a very pleasing state. I still have not captures the feeling on film, I nee...
by Robert The Gray
Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:20 am
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

greetings all,
fromthenorthwest:::tothecity
mit dem honor

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by Robert The Gray
Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:38 pm
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: Feb 17, 2007 NETA/Forum Event Pictures
Replies: 39
Views: 11079

those pictures looked great. I have been sailimg both sunday and today. it sounded like a nice get together. thanks nathan, aor the photo, I am glad every one enjoyed the donuts. easiest pot luck ever!

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by Robert The Gray
Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:39 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: This is more fun
Replies: 11
Views: 2030

that grass looks so green from here. Believe it or not I do miss riding a snow mobile. the look of stars in under 20 degrees, taking saunas and jumping into lakes. ahhhh a real winter.. we have about 70 degrees today. hmpfhh. i feel weak and untested.

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by Robert The Gray
Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:59 pm
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: bumrush the forum
Replies: 9
Views: 2490

Good ideas all.
I guess it may be doubtful about beating the log
I am a provincial idiot, of course its cold there, and you all have deadly cold not like our charmingly brisk cold. oops. sorry
I was trying to get in on the fun

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by Robert The Gray
Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:06 pm
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: bumrush the forum
Replies: 9
Views: 2490

bumrush the forum

It is to my great regret that I will be unable to attend the party and open house in Maine on the 17th. To sit and listen to the wisdom and story while sipping a malted beverage would be a fine time indeed. I would suppose that many across the world feel this way as well. I would like to emphasize t...
by Robert The Gray
Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:47 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

With compassion to those in the cold frozen snowy north, here are some clips from yesterdays sail.

breakintherain

blessings

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by Robert The Gray
Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:01 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Triton #680
Replies: 21
Views: 3840

[quote="Figment"]Nah, Robert of the Gray gets the dozen. I'll just have half a chocolate honeydip. Thanks mike Tell ya what, put my dozen on the table at the NETA party and everybody dig in. Of course the fearless forum director and house poobah deserves first choice and dibs on leftovers....
by Robert The Gray
Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:45 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: New member introduction and my Islander 32 project
Replies: 13
Views: 4062

That looks like a lot of fun. Do you have a clear goal for your boat. Ocean travel, daysail picnic, family fun boat? Now if there was room for a mizzen mast you could fly five sails with that bowsprit.........hmmmmmm.......... "We got the bow wave at the stern captain" "Never mind the...
by Robert The Gray
Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:25 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: anchor platforms
Replies: 27
Views: 5460

Image


For those high speed carrier landings?
For a cool jet ski style rooster tail when on a starboard reach?
by Robert The Gray
Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:53 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: Triton #680
Replies: 21
Views: 3840

overboard water is not fresh water from a tank. I do not know what else to call it but then again it is late

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by Robert The Gray
Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:09 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Triton #680
Replies: 21
Views: 3840

Your pipes valves and pump allow you to: pump holding tank over board pump outside water into holding tank have holding tank pumped out from deck pump head into holding tank pump head overboard pump overboard water into head are their two exterior discharges? below and above waterline? If I have any...
by Robert The Gray
Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:55 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Triton #680
Replies: 21
Views: 3840

Re: Triton #680

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e240/bcooke99/Settees.jpg I thought I was ready. I felt the healing had taken place. But no. The sight of that gutted Triton interior brought me to the brink of a post tramautic stress break down. I remember my own adventure into that morass. My body went into this...
by Robert The Gray
Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:26 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

How about this linkage!?

3 new clips

me lern compuer soon

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by Robert The Gray
Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:51 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: Two Rudders?
Replies: 12
Views: 1864

I can imagine those tillers in a rolling anchorage with a running tide breaking the legs of yur guests as yur havin a bit of a nosh. not to mention a lovely way to really foul the mainsheet.

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by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:03 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

I have the link in the signature but I am unsure of how to have it look simpler. a pm is fine.......alldone
thanks
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by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:56 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

i am on it

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by Robert The Gray
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:32 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

two new clips
under 1 minute each
the pole cam deputs

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by Robert The Gray
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:12 pm
Forum: Sails, Rigging, and Systems
Topic: Mast bend in Masthead rig.
Replies: 13
Views: 2885

Re: Mast bend in Masthead rig.

I have spent much of my career trying to keep beams or members under compression from deforming and it is hard to wrap my head around this. It seems wrong on a few levels to me. Feetup. my $.02 The spar is not a building. In a building's structure the deformation of any one member must be minimized...
by Robert The Gray
Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:41 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: Rachel
Replies: 10
Views: 1827

Rachel, I fixed the end of the little lyric I posted earlier. I have added another one that arrived in the head today. traditional: May she be the belle of the ball. May she fly with grace, sails white and tall. Into the future of wind, out into liquid space, this craft shall hold your fate. A vesse...
by Robert The Gray
Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:51 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

made it under the golden gate the other sunday
new clip

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by Robert The Gray
Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:06 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Rachel's mystery...
Replies: 89
Views: 22259

Congrats rachel,

May she be the belle of the ball.
May she fly with grace, sails white and tall.
Into the future of wind, out into liquid space,
this craft shall hold your fate.
A vessel for joy, a vessel for fear.
May she contain both your wildest hopes and your deepest knowledge.

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by Robert The Gray
Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:43 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: Life as I know it is over
Replies: 83
Views: 18348

Re: Life as I know it is over

Tuesday November 14, 2006 The Patriots lost two games in a row. They are ripping out the sod at the stadium and installing artificial turf. And they just signed geriatric quarterback Vinny Testeverde. {sob} Nathan, I am going to be watching your patriotic men go up against the horses in hd tv with a...
by Robert The Gray
Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:15 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: depth sounder advice
Replies: 13
Views: 1990

I myself have a basic depth sounder on my boat. On my last boat I became quite adept at throwin' the lead from the lee side while sailing along. I could usually tell when the gradual silt mud flat bottom of the bay around here was starting to shoal up. I would never know if a rock was ahead of the b...
by Robert The Gray
Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:38 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

new clip, got some film of seals and sea lions.
I am glad every one seems to enjoy these. Summer is coming.

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by Robert The Gray
Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:57 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

Cold winds from the north west. Gulf of alaska air down for a trip through the bay area.
enjoy

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by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:21 pm
Forum: Sails, Rigging, and Systems
Topic: Primary filter location
Replies: 11
Views: 2509

Thanks guys,

The comic loves to hear laughs.
The silence after the submit button is horrifying at times.
Should that brain litter have been composted?
It is nice to feel part of the community.

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by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:58 pm
Forum: Sails, Rigging, and Systems
Topic: Primary filter location
Replies: 11
Views: 2509

I myself used a "clacker pump" from napa auto between my tank and the racor filter for my volvo penta MD7B. I was advised to do this by some men in greasy coveralls. Was I led astray? This is the link to the pump I think I used. I am not sure if this is better or the same as an in-line man...
by Robert The Gray
Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:32 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Oil absorbent pads
Replies: 12
Views: 1506

Our marina provides them for free, but if you use to many they get antsy about fuel leaks.

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by Robert The Gray
Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:01 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

New clips.
by Robert The Gray
Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:14 pm
Forum: Sails, Rigging, and Systems
Topic: Replacing the S/S standing rigging with Galvanised ?
Replies: 21
Views: 4737

Bernard's masts were salvaged telephone poles, Joshua was a custom steel hull with a plexiglas dome on top. I loved his book, The Long Way . How he arrived at his decision to abandon the first solo nonstop round the world race was as good as anything by Thomas Merton. He gave it to Robin Knox Johnso...
by Robert The Gray
Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:45 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Hirilond? - my intro and project
Replies: 10
Views: 1673

jp,

velcomen maestro

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by Robert The Gray
Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:37 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: January 2007 Photo of the Month
Replies: 7
Views: 1088

Those are beautiful, Tim. Is that clear water in the second photo at all swimable? We only get water like that on lakes around here And the most I have seen through in the bay was about 3 feet. The rivers are pure silty brown with visibility in the 1/2" range. Our bay is generally about 58 degr...
by Robert The Gray
Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:45 am
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

had at least 20 knots today. Lots of fun! check out the clips.

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by Robert The Gray
Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:09 pm
Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
Topic: Interior lighting systems
Replies: 16
Views: 3248

These have been fantastic answers. I too feel that warm light is the best. It is just if I have four fixtures going at once, the radio blasting, and a fan to move the air, and the anchor light on I am ending up having to run the motor to charge the battery more than I would like, especially in the w...
by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:51 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

new year's day clip on above link.

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by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:02 pm
Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
Topic: Interior lighting systems
Replies: 16
Views: 3248

Interior lighting systems

Hey all, I have been thinking lately about led lights. One of the main uses of power when I am on a cruise are my incandescent lights down below. I prefer them to flourescent because of the light quality and kerosene lanterns send off fumes that seem to ruin my food. When I was redoing whisper's int...
by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:15 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: GPS/chartplotters/PCs NOAA downloads
Replies: 6
Views: 813

there was a long thread on the yahoo triton group about this topic. It started around dec 14 2006.

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by Robert The Gray
Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:04 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: To buy or not to buy? That is my question.
Replies: 14
Views: 1720

I to was able to get my first boat for very little money. The santana 22 was just 1500 dollars, I took the extra step of learning to sail displacement boats without an engine, but an outboard would have added a bit to the price. Even at only 22 feet the santana weighed about a ton and that is very d...
by Robert The Gray
Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:34 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Hirilond? - my intro and project
Replies: 10
Views: 1673

Beautiful Job. Welcome to the forum.

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by Robert The Gray
Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:00 pm
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Bad decision, fumes, more bad deccisions
Replies: 7
Views: 1516

For the entertainment of all, http://www.dasein668.com/art/sailing/2005/cruise05/072605l.jpg The dialoge bubbles for this picture are interesting "would you fellas like some tasty ladies?" "Have you guys seen an almost full rum bottle float by? I dropped it up river an hour ago......H...
by Robert The Gray
Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:13 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: Happy New Year
Replies: 10
Views: 1224

Here on the west coast we often just act like we are in times square. It is the new year by 9 pm. The great ball beat me to bed last night but I was asleep before it was new years day in denver!

Happy sailing everyone!
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by Robert The Gray
Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:56 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Woods similar to Teak
Replies: 8
Views: 1090

In my experience with both Ipe' and Teak I would say that nothing I have seen approaches the amount of "oiliness" in teak. It seems that what helps teak resist weathering is not just its firmness but the natural oils abundant throughout the wood. Ipe and other hardwoods do not seem to have...
by Robert The Gray
Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:51 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Cockpit lockers and fuel tank while I'm in there.
Replies: 95
Views: 24909

I wondered if any one had looked at a bathtub basket strainer as a solution to the scupper grate problem.
this is a link to the item
http://www.idealtruevalue.com/servlet/the-179712/Detail

just an idea......

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by Robert The Gray
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:44 pm
Forum: Boat Photos
Topic: And here she is...
Replies: 19
Views: 5094

In the process of buffing out my old top sides paint with 3M wax/restorer my name started to come off. I was able to buff the hailing port off the stern in about 10 minutes of work. Thes product is not as abrasive as rubbing compound but it is not just a wax either. I do not know if you plan to buff...
by Robert The Gray
Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:49 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

new clips on previous link

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by Robert The Gray
Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:32 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: Life as I know it is over
Replies: 83
Views: 18348

Is it cruel to imagine the thoughts of a deer as it is caught in those headlights? Well yes, that is cruel, but funny.
by Robert The Gray
Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:29 pm
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: General purpose table saw recomendations
Replies: 22
Views: 5396

i dig the lady bugs!!!!

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by Robert The Gray
Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:54 pm
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: daysailfilms
Replies: 46
Views: 12650

daysailfilms

While I do feel that the the desire to become famous in and of itself is often a twisting of the desire for a powerful connection with the transcendent forces of the universe, I would like to announce my film blog. I have been using my minidv camera to shoot short films of sailing. None of them are ...

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