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I know sailrite's database used to show symmetric spinnaker information. I don't imagine that it was ever a big seller, but still very odd that they'd remove it. I don't find myself trimming the foreguy often. I set it for a particular point of sail, and that's that. My 160 blocks are roughly at the...

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Not only is it a beautiful boat, but it's a rather significant one in terms of its lineage, which makes that chunk-o-plank boomkin an absolute travesty. That's the very first "upgrade" I'd undo!

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Is that spinnaker in good condition? Good enough to let it determine your hardware configuration? Step one: measure the luff and foot of that spinnaker and compare to the "standard" Triton spinnaker sizes (reference Sailrite). If it's close enough to either the standard fractional or masth...

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sigh. There he goes again, being all reasonable and stuff...

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Yes, I did use the bronze tailpiece. And while I was at it (the most expensive words on earth), I installed a seacock for that drain. The only difficult part was getting the hose to connect the tailpiece and the seacock, because there really isn't much clearance beneath the bottom of the tailpiece a...

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I see a lot of potential here.

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Clearly I'm a danger to myself and to others.

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I know they need to shed water and all, but making the sill more broad and butt-friendly is definitely on my "next time around" list.

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Wrong water hose, or wrong fitting at the pump, or both. http://gsosun1.gso.uri.edu/~brooke/Sea%20Sprite/P1010062.JPG Pet peeve here... Why do people leave the rig so loaded when the boat is on the hard??? http://gsosun1.gso.uri.edu/~brooke/Sea%20Sprite/P1010102.JPG A very nice boat, though. What's ...

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202? I see cockpit lockers and a raised fuel fill, I thought those were 300+ features?

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I've always worked on the priniciple that application is application, the minimum temperature is about letting the chemicals flow into pores or otherwise bond with substrates. I'd want to maintain that 50+ degrees for a couple of hours before and after the application, but otherwise I think you're f...

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And just think of the candy payload potential on that rig!

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so all the wiring and components of the whole circuit (right up to the switch) are forever energized, just waiting for something to chafe through or otherwise short out for an instant catastrophe?

No thanks.

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Yes. Get the longboard (and rolls of sticky sandpaper) from Jamestown, or make your own. Apply the fairing compound with a notched trowel. This cuts the effort of longboarding in half, because you're cutting down half as much surface area. Find something (a nice straight 3/4"sq stick) to use as...

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Good stuff Joe!

Don't fret over the gloss on the nonskid. In my experience, the interlux "flattening agent" significantly diminishes the paint's UV resistance. It'll chalk itself down to a matte finish soon enough.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Gulfstar ... 41538f2867

I'm not sure if this is a guy using photos of his broker's listing to try to do an ebay end-around on said listing or not, but I found it amusing.

All class, either way.

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I'll hazard a guess that lowering the board that far (moving the CLR forward) will induce a lot of weather helm.

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Yes I did visit the HMM, but really only to pay for the mooring. It was a monday, and the museum itself was officially closed. I've toured before, however, so no biggie. I lingered on the upper loft only long enough to decide that yes I would very much like to have a Fishers Island 31. D, I had inte...

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The Cruise got off to a rocky start. Several "events of life" popped up to prevent me from visiting/preparing the boat in the weeks leading up to departure. Even fundamental provisioning was left until the morning of departure. The boat was unprepared, I was unprepared, and frankly I'm mor...

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I use hose clamps at the crossings. They're cheap and quick.

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It will be a long day, but if you can catch a flood tide up the bay it's perfectly doable. Last sunday I departed the salt pond 0700 and was on a mooring in bristol 12 hours later, wind was NNE 15-20 until I was north of the jamestown bridge, when it piped up to 25 or so for the duration. I had the ...

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Do you need any kind of lens or cover over the red and green running lights?

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Suggested modification to plan: After you've done all of these support beam and bulkhead modifications, build a removable (screw-adustable like a boatstand or house jack) compression post that you can easily install for heavy weather sailing.

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A sail, for a given weight, is built the way it's built regardless if it's a "racing" sail or a "cruising" sail. Racers replace their sails with greater frequency because they have less tolerance for degradation, and probably also because they use them a lot more, but not because...

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First thing I noticed was the pristine clean bottom. There is something very wrong with me.

The orange band on the mast is an interesting idea. There's no traveling in stealth for you.

Who's the wus wearing their hood on the rail? ;)

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also... If you're doing the big bitt on the bow, why also do little cleats? Tritons originally came with those two little cleats on the stern deck, AND a large cleat at the forward edge of the stern deck. That large cleat was for the mainsheet, before a PO replaced it with the traveler. Traveler or ...

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I'll go the other way on the mid cleats. Mine are only 6", and I wouldn't want them any larger. They're only used for springlines and hanging fenders, and those side decks are crowded enough. I've also seen some REALLY nice lay-flat or pop-up cleat designs over the last couple of years which ha...

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One approach is to determine one common fastener size that will work for most of your applications, and buy the box of 100. This approach as the virtue of simplifying your inventory (of drill bits and taps as well as bolts and nuts), which is a very nice virtue indeed. I think 90% of my boat is eith...

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2. Showing a masthead (i.e. "steaming") light while underway means you are a power-driven vessel. A sailboat becomes a power-driven vessel anytime the propulsion engine is running, whether or not the shaft is engaged and whether or not the sails are up. and so I've always wondered why thi...

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This tank really isn't all that large, and the fore and aft free surface effect shouldn't matter to the boat at all, would the baffles really add anything meaningful? Other than stiffening the sidewalls and possibly making the assembly a bit easier?

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That reminds me... I saw another Marlin on a mooring in Boothbay Harbor. Yours is better.

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Dream Ketcher

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Looks like a knock-off to me.

The clean-and-lubricate advice still stands, though.

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After cleaning, lubricate with a very light oil. If the action on those winches is anything other than smooth, it's because the old oil has picked up a bunch of gunk, or because someone used grease instead of oil last time.

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Hirilondë wrote:
Yes. I personally think bronze with the natural green patina is absolutely beautious. I know of no place that will do this....

The owner of Rayco Metal Finishing in Middletown CT is a boat guy. He un-chromed a big pile of stuff for me about five years ago. I think his name was Mark.

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I don't mind cutting out roughly 2ft sections of the v-berth - I can either rebuild using wood, or glass back in. Either way, most of the resultant damage and fix should be covered by the v-berth cushions. (Much easier than new casework or satisfactorily glassing and finishing the galley back in). ...

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My backstay adjuster is a cascading series of spectra purchases. I suppose that's both standing and running rigging, but I think it applies to your question. I wouldn't hesitate to use it again. Learn to do a brummel splice, buy some thimbles and you're golden. On an Ensign I wouldn't even bother wi...

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RTFM

(start on page 92)

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Shrink wrap can be patched. Cut holes for the straps and patch later.

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Dan, I happen to have a photo of a similar boat with something like you propose and I thought you might like to see a good way to ugly-up a boat with otherwise nicely harmonious lines . This is "Que Onda," an early sixties S & S-designed Columbia 29, in the Cruiser's Anchorage in San ...

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Really, I wouldn't bother.

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The issue may not be the color of the sealant in the hot climate, the issue may be the very different rates of thermal expansion between the metal frame and the plastic/glass.
Use a sealant that gives, not one that grabs.

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Perhaps there ARE good reasons not to have silly graphics on your genoa!

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Seen Friday afternoon (7/9/10), white hulled Triton, towing a dinghy, inbound Watch Hill Passage, looking good.

Who was it?

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Right.

Now to the question of stowing it. It won't do to simply lay it on the deck like some common aluminum fencepost. What's the plan?

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That is an interesting idea. Spinning the reel just seems like it would be SO much more fun (not to mention easier) than yanking the rode down through the pipe one armlength at a time. Hmmm, I just feed mine through after I have hauled the anchor and all onto the deck. Do you really have to pull it...

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there is a very minimal amount of water in the bilge, at least 5 gallons of fuel under her starboard cockpit seat, no drinking water , a couple of sails, no cushions, and not much else on her. How far below the cockpit sole is the water in the drain tubes? Yes it's down at the stern, but everything...

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Perhaps I'm just easily impressed, but I think this is brilliant!

Spinning the reel just seems like it would be SO much more fun (not to mention easier) than yanking the rode down through the pipe one armlength at a time.

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First: Welcome to the asylum. Second: GREAT boat name. On to business.... Don't worry too much about the current battery location. No, you can't really get a proper battery enclosure and yes it's REALLY tight to get two batteries in there, but it's worked for decades. We've all considered various ot...

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Pic number one, I'm guessing by your description, is aft of the lead ballast, in the foam "false keel" or "deadwood" portion of the hull. The foam holds water, until the boat warms when the water finds teensy little pinholes to the surface. The water reacts with the copper in the...

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