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by Zach
Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:26 am
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: Triton Bimini
Replies: 19
Views: 6296

Re: Triton Bimini

Barry... pictures!

indeed Rachel... boom gallows. A boomkin mounted bimini would be a mighty low bimini!

Cheers,

Zach
by Zach
Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:51 pm
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: Triton Bimini
Replies: 19
Views: 6296

Re: Triton Bimini

While not a Triton, I have seen a slick installation of a folding bimini. A friend of mine installed a bimini across the cockpit coamings, and just ahead of the mainsheet traveller on an old Herreshoff so he could get out of the sun... yet still be able to drop everything down to keep an eye on the ...
by Zach
Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:39 pm
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Rudder Replacement Options
Replies: 37
Views: 7107

Re: Rudder Replacement Options

Looking good... Some stuff ya might want to ponder: The easy way to laminate two pieces of plywood together without a twist, is to rip two 2x4's straight, lay them on saw horses and screw from the underside with some screws, diagonally through the side of the 2x4. If you take a long straight edge an...
by Zach
Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:53 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Bronzework / Machine Shop
Replies: 6
Views: 1385

Re: Bronzework / Machine Shop

If a color match isn't important anyone with a tig welder or gas welding torch can make the repair... Silicone bronze off the shelf is a brighter yellow than the copper colored everdur used on a lot of old boats. A shop has to do a lot of bronze to warrant purchasing 10lbs of 651... Run a larger dia...
by Zach
Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:23 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Floating rebuild
Replies: 22
Views: 4437

Re: Floating rebuild

Given you like the angle of the main bulkheads it is doable floating. It is hard if you let it be… there are some steps you can take to make it simpler and less frustrating. I’m doing the bulk majority of this floating. http://83footernoel.blogspot.com/ It is easier to do it on the hard and level… b...
by Zach
Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:45 am
Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
Topic: Portable Diesel Tank?
Replies: 12
Views: 2356

Re: Portable Diesel Tank?

Oh... The other thing you may want to think about for your fuel line if you are concerned about introducing air, is just to run real over sized off the tank from its lowest point. Think 1 inch stuff. Get within a foot or two of your engine, and reduce it down, put in a valve and run 3/8ths or whatev...
by Zach
Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:31 am
Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
Topic: Portable Diesel Tank?
Replies: 12
Views: 2356

Re: Portable Diesel Tank?

Actually... If you have a set of glass fuel filters, racor and the like you could avoid the line bleeding by having a valve at the filter. With the engine off, turn the filter to the off setting. Put a petcock under the fuel filter in the fuel line at the quick connect. Set your tank in place, open ...
by Zach
Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:12 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Floating rebuild question #2
Replies: 9
Views: 1474

Re: Floating rebuild question #2

Pipe wrench has a deeper throat than a crescent wrench. Good for tightening up skin fittings, through hull nuts and other stuff. Also good for breaking free stuck seacocks, and other stuff that doesn't necessarily have flat lands. A cheapo aluminum one also means you can hack saw the handle and get ...
by Zach
Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:18 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Floating rebuild question #2
Replies: 9
Views: 1474

Re: Floating rebuild question #2

Surveys are cheap over the cost of boat ownership to find out stuff you might not otherwise notice. Sockets and wrenches as said... Good flash light. Preferably one you can strap to your head. Good volt meter. Roll of stranded wire. Heat shrink butt connectors. 4 Alligator clips Wire crimpers Pencil...
by Zach
Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:03 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Prop shaft alignment Question
Replies: 30
Views: 3845

Re: Prop shaft alignment Question

Excellent point that!

The rest of my quote was that you can't use the shaft to align an oversized shaft tube... given there is just free floating air around it. Which is one of those points that is probably to obvious to point out. Grin.

But well stated...

Zach
by Zach
Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:40 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Prop shaft alignment Question
Replies: 30
Views: 3845

Re: Prop shaft alignment Question

If it was me, I would see if the lower half of the engine mounts come apart, or if the rubber is bonded to the steel. If the rubber is replaceable, I would weld a piece of 1/2 inch plate connecting both mounts on each side, and then slide the engine forward or aft an inch or two, and slot the 1/2 in...
by Zach
Sat Dec 04, 2010 10:20 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: triton # 122
Replies: 38
Views: 6444

Re: triton # 122

If they are the same as the forward looking ones, I could be convinced... Been thinking to replace them with lexan, or even pretend she is an Alberg 30... (Grin)

Zach
by Zach
Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:39 pm
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: Ebay Triton on the rocks
Replies: 12
Views: 2477

Re: Ebay Triton on the rocks

Over the phone the head of the park police threatened he'd arrest me and any one else seen on or near her. Grin!

That took the wind out of my sails...

Did you get her floating where she sat, or crane her out?

Zach
by Zach
Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:32 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: triton # 122
Replies: 38
Views: 6444

Re: triton # 122

Nice work!

Do you want to go back with Bronze portlights in the main cabin? I've got the set that came off Pylasteki. Gearing her towards blue water, and the through bolted lexan is a bit stronger but not as good looking.

Zach
(Down the road in Beaufort, NC.)
by Zach
Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:26 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: No Gelcoat?
Replies: 5
Views: 789

Re: No Gelcoat?

If you are wearing a respirator, does it have a carbon filter? Gelcoat smells like chalk and styrene when you grind it... rather than the dusty paint that tastes like bottom paint. An N95 or N100 respirator cartridge just takes out the particulate, not whatever locked in solvent is still around. The...
by Zach
Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:22 am
Forum: Sailing and Cruising
Topic: Howdy folks- been a while
Replies: 4
Views: 2165

Re: Howdy folks- been a while

Hi Charlie,

Glad to hear you guys are doing well!
by Zach
Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:06 am
Forum: Ramblings
Topic: Ebay Triton on the rocks
Replies: 12
Views: 2477

Re: Ebay Triton on the rocks

I am quite curious to hear your story!

I spent more than a few hours calling around trying to find a way to save her from the park police...

Zach
by Zach
Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:18 pm
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: Why didn't I think of that?
Replies: 9
Views: 3649

Re: Why didn't I think of that?

Skipper... It is a cast iron table wing, that bolts up to the saw just like the original did. It just has an inset space for a router to drop into and slots for the fence to ride on. Click here for it, and other cool goodies. http://www.benchdog.com/ I snagged one just like Maine Sails to try out......
by Zach
Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:44 pm
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: Rub Rail
Replies: 6
Views: 1816

Re: Rub Rail

I've been impressed with 2 layers of biax over the heart pine rub rails on Noel. I've had her laying on a piling every low tide since last thanksgiving... (gotta be able to step on and off at high tide, so she's tied tight...) So far, the biax and epoxy has worn a groove in the piling. I'm leaving o...
by Zach
Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:38 pm
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: Why didn't I think of that?
Replies: 9
Views: 3649

Why didn't I think of that?

http://www.amazon.com/MagSwitch-Universal-Featherboaard-Magswitch-Featherboard/dp/B001DSZ7EC It's a magnetic featherboard that sticks to the table on your saw or router bench... if you've got cast iron table surfaces, this thing rocks. I had to rip a bunch (28...) strips of douglas fir on saturday t...
by Zach
Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:22 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...
Replies: 21
Views: 2952

Re: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...

Indeed...

Next tuesday... rainy stuff and family health intervened this week...
by Zach
Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:50 pm
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Fairing my new transom
Replies: 7
Views: 1785

Re: Fairing my new transom

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by Zach
Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:15 am
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Fairing my new transom
Replies: 7
Views: 1785

Re: Fairing my new transom

Edited: I use the 3m marine boards (Not the one with aluminum plate... the plates bend if dropped...) Mirca heavy duty sandpaper is the best for fast cutting. The green 3m production paper is junk. I use 3m 4 1/2 gold sticking paper on home made boards, and a flexible 3m board. I use 3m's yellow sti...
by Zach
Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:03 am
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Fairing my new transom
Replies: 7
Views: 1785

Re: Fairing my new transom

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by Zach
Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:45 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...
Replies: 21
Views: 2952

Re: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...

So today I pulled off the stifflegs from the back of the bulkhead, prepared a piece of glass to skin the front side... And then I backed up to the main bulkhead and looked at it. Something went wonky... So I screwed my two 3 inch wide plywood straight edges together and made a go - no go gauge to go...
by Zach
Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:11 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...
Replies: 21
Views: 2952

Re: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...

Leveled the boat... Met a new friend named Rob today... Fit the new Coosa bulkhead in place and tabbed it in place with two layers of 8 inch wide 1708 on the aft side, as I glassed the entire aft side, and will do the forward side... but did not want to add another sanding cycle tomorrow. I goofed w...
by Zach
Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:00 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...
Replies: 21
Views: 2952

Re: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...

So, I tried for three days to get away from Noel at a decent hour and do some work on Pylasteki without any luck. Today, I got away around 2:00, and worked till 7. I took out the old bulkhead under the companionway, with a 4.5 inch metal cut off wheel on a grinder by laying it flat against the hull ...
by Zach
Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:20 pm
Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
Topic: Fiberglass reinforcements for transom and deck repair
Replies: 3
Views: 1015

Re: Fiberglass reinforcements for transom and deck repair

Are you taking out the old deck and building the new on in taller? If you aren't you will want to punch a bunch of huge holes in the old deck and bring as much ventilation as you can. Even if its marine grade plywood you are going back with, if you just lay down wood strips and build a new deck on t...
by Zach
Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:55 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...
Replies: 21
Views: 2952

Re: Great Grinder Skirmish 2010 Edition...

Update: Last week I pulled out some of my divinycell, and converted my plywood template into foam. I had to call it quits, as the boat yard is destroying an old wood boat beside mine... as well as sand blasting, then painting a big steel trawler. The smell was over the top. It is mostly gone, so I'm...
by Zach
Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:47 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Engine problem
Replies: 12
Views: 1772

Re: Engine problem

If it is indeed a screen issue, you can take loose the fuel line and use compressed air to blow backwards into the tank. (Given you have a nicely vented tank...)

Temporary fix, but it will diagnose it if thats the problem.
by Zach
Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:44 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Inside vs outside
Replies: 8
Views: 1156

Re: Inside vs outside

I haven't gone outside... But I have been out most of the inlets along the way. Oregon inlet isn't one I'd try on a sailboat drawing much more than 4 feet... ever time I've been out it, its rougher than a cob but those were fishing boats. Ocracoke inlet is on the verge of OK... Beaufort inlet is gre...
by Zach
Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:28 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: 1967 Tanzer 16
Replies: 3
Views: 755

Re: 1967 Tanzer 16

Rotten-1.jpg foam-1.jpg glass.jpg floating.jpg I finished grinding out the old balsa and glass that a previous owner put in... I laid in a 10 foot long 14 inch wide piece of divinycell, beveling the outboard edge so the glass laid down nicely. I glassed over it with copoxy and 1708. Finished it up ...
by Zach
Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:40 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: 1967 Tanzer 16
Replies: 3
Views: 755

Re: 1967 Tanzer 16

Pictures or it didn't happen...
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by Zach
Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:22 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: 1967 Tanzer 16
Replies: 3
Views: 755

1967 Tanzer 16

Hi guys, Snagged a small piece of plastic classic... A baby blue 1967 Tanzer 16. The coring in the hull is bad, so today I ground out the 9 foot x 14 inch wide piece of balsa wood that a previous owner had glassed in place on the port side. Don't know what goop was used to bond it to the hull, but i...
by Zach
Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:29 pm
Forum: Technical Data and Boat Nerdery
Topic: Severe Boat Nerdery: Danger, Will Robinson!
Replies: 4
Views: 2414

Re: Severe Boat Nerdery: Danger, Will Robinson!

Ah ha! I had a moment of silence till tikvah pointed me towards this... thought it disappeared in cyber space! Yup yup, you've got it right Rachel on the center of gravity on our size boats, and even stuff the size of Noel's 83 feet... So long as the majority of the weight is within a foot or two of...
by Zach
Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:51 pm
Forum: Technical Data and Boat Nerdery
Topic: Severe Boat Nerdery: Danger, Will Robinson!
Replies: 4
Views: 2414

Re: Triton hinged cockpit lockers redux

Thread theft! Hiya Rachel, I simplify it a bit, as in the case of a triton tank, the fuel at the aft half some two and a half feet forward of the front half... levers differently. My example was on a 2d level. The math there is the distance from center of gravity, in feet, multiplied by the weight o...
by Zach
Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:26 am
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: Triton hinged cockpit lockers redux
Replies: 4
Views: 1717

Re: Triton hinged cockpit lockers redux

Your structural bulkhead should have an inset piece that is screwed in place, rather than being one solid bulkhead. From here and an empty fuel tank, you can slide it forward and out through the galley.... with a bit of cursing. You need a person in the cockpit locker, and one on the galley side to ...
by Zach
Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:02 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Biscuits Anyone?
Replies: 9
Views: 1049

Re: Biscuits Anyone?

I agree... I would scarf more things if I had a concrete slab to lay everything up on while the glue sets. It is tough to get a scarf that fits perfect enough that it doesn't show its self along a long flat run... kick it out of alignment and you've got a lot of sanding to flatten out everything. I ...
by Zach
Thu Sep 09, 2010 8:32 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Biscuits Anyone?
Replies: 9
Views: 1049

Re: Biscuits Anyone?

I use biscuits on interior 3/4 plywood walls with epoxy on the seams, and pack the biscuit joint with thickened epoxy and cabosil. Lay the wall, or single skin bulkhead that is larger than the plywood you have down flat. Mark the sides and make sure you only use the jointer from that side, if the jo...
by Zach
Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:52 pm
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: Sanding and Typing in Pain
Replies: 13
Views: 4303

Re: Sanding and Typing in Pain

Quetzal,

That is one beautiful boat. Nice work!

Zach
by Zach
Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:51 pm
Forum: Materials, Sources, and Innovations
Topic: Me and my Multimaster
Replies: 11
Views: 1684

Re: Me and my Multimaster

Jonk, Take a 4.5 inch grinder, and thread a spiral stitched buffing wheel on to it. Put a layer or two of masking tape on each side of the rail. Use some rouge, or polishing compound that comes in a cardboard tube and walk down it. Acetone wipe between compounds... and swap buffing wheels. If the sc...
by Zach
Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:00 pm
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Rolling multiple coats of 545
Replies: 5
Views: 1141

Re: Rolling multiple coats of 545

Saving on sanding 545... you can get less roller stipple if you use a whizz 4 inch foam roller. Doesn't put a lot of material down, but you don't have to sand off the rough stuff. Do the outside corners twice for every time you do the flat surfaces. Sand the flats first... keeps it where you have an...
by Zach
Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:09 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Epoxy Mixing Technique
Replies: 7
Views: 1046

Re: Epoxy Mixing Technique

Use tropical hardener. You get almost an hour at 80 degrees. It is the only way you'll get a cabosil thickened fillet to stay put on a hundred degree day in the sun... If you must use slow hardener, put the bucket in the shade... and off any asphalt around. If you are doing a fiberglass layup, put t...
by Zach
Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:53 pm
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: Sanding and Typing in Pain
Replies: 13
Views: 4303

Re: Sanding and Typing in Pain

Rachel... you've got the first one. As far as the second part goes... Sanding with your fingers in the fillet changes the shape along its length. If you sand along the length, you have a depression where the fillet is, and where your fingers ride. If you have a smooth block, shaped to finished produ...
by Zach
Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:33 am
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: Sanding and Typing in Pain
Replies: 13
Views: 4303

Re: Sanding and Typing in Pain

Heres how I do it... Take a piece of blue styrofoam dow board, and cut it to just smaller in width than a piece of sticky inline paper. Take a piece of sticky paper, stick it to the radius where the fillet is good... and machine the foam block to that shape. 9-10 inch long blocks are about as long a...
by Zach
Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:03 pm
Forum: Pearson Triton Specifics
Topic: Mast Head Sheave on my Triton
Replies: 3
Views: 942

Re: Mast Head Sheave on my Triton

I'm going phenolic, like the old one. Phenolic is pretty much bomb proof... On my mast the axle was just a bolt with a lock nut on one side. No compression tubes. The side plates of the sheave were just two pieces of 1/8th inch aluminum held apart by a pin and a cotter key... Very basic, but hey... ...
by Zach
Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:50 pm
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Bulwark/caprail wood
Replies: 1
Views: 814

Re: Bulwark/caprail wood

Some ideas...

A lot of north carolina builders use spanish cedar for rub rails and toe rails, as it looks like teak when let to go silver.

Hatteras yachts used to use afrimosia as interior and exterior trim... It smells very raunchy when you machine it...

Zach
by Zach
Fri May 21, 2010 4:50 pm
Forum: Tools and Techniques
Topic: Time savers... on sanding.
Replies: 2
Views: 2077

Re: Time savers... on sanding.

Jerry,

Yup... same sheet metal spreaders.

Zach
by Zach
Wed May 19, 2010 8:48 pm
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Advice please on glassing over fixed portlight openings
Replies: 7
Views: 1582

Re: Advice please on glassing over fixed portlight openings

You may want to study the cabin sides to see what sort of curve they have. Most cabins have a light curve along their length as well over the height... making a stronger structure. My two cents is to back fill the gap between the two skins with chopped glass, or cotton fiber and epoxy resin. When th...
by Zach
Wed May 19, 2010 8:24 pm
Forum: Boatbuilding and Repair Techniques
Topic: Filleting with Polyester Bonding Paste?
Replies: 4
Views: 1020

Re: Filleting with Polyester Bonding Paste?

One thing about foam fillets... I've used some foam weather stripping to keep from generating hard spots around bulkheads. A lot of weather stripping foam is not closed cell. I was displeased about this, even though I epoxy coated the endgrain of all the plywood it would be touching... When and if a...