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all along I've been saying "mid-june", and that still looks like it might happen, BUT because I've been telling myself that, a lot of stuff has been put off until just after then, which means that the second two weekends in june are marked for non-boat committments. Basically, if it doesn'...

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I just realized that THIS weekend is memorial day weekend. There's nothing like a surprise 3-day weekend to elevate one's spirits. Three whole days of boatwork! Of course, rain is forecast for all three days, but no bother. I've enough work to do belowdecks to keep me busy. But really, not so much.....

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Since this has morphed into a webtech thread....

Tim/nathan, Why is it that on this thread only the text doesn't maintain a respectable margin? (my screen needs to be twice as wide as it is)

A bug in the thread, or a bug on my machine?

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So THAT'S what Palawan was supposed to look like!!!!!

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Currently, Figment looks like every other boat out there.... white hull topsides, ivory deck and house, blue canvaswork (mainsail cover, cushions, etc...). In the long term, I'd like to change all that. The wifey's taste defaults to dark blue hull. (tim, I TOLD you that your restoration website was ...

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canvas bucket.... that's actually why I reccommended The Marlinespike Sailor . It has a nice design for one. I saw another design for one that used a leather bottom, which is nice because it doesn't slide around, and doesn't let tools in the bag mar finished surfaces when plunking it down, but I can...

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A canvas store across the street that sells sunbrella? Lucky dog! If you don't have This Old Boat already, this is a fine excuse to buy it. Don Casey devotes a good chunk (too much, in my opinion) of the book to canvaswork. If memory serves, he goes over the basics of hatch cover-covers, windscoops,...

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Tim, If shaping your own handle, I'd suggest that you don't bother to go perfectly round. I've found that just about anything you hold in your hand is better if it's out-of-round. Think about it... hammers, knives, all manner of tools have out-of-round handles, not just because they fit your hand be...

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What do y'all favor as a boathook?

wood? metal? plastic?

long, kinda long, or reeeeeeeally long?

What's your preferred location for stowage?

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I had a window of relief in my workday, so I took the opportunity to go over to the Department of Motor Vehicles and finally take care of the sales taxes and registration of the boat. I'm sure that DMV's are the same huge headache the world over, so I'll just let you imagine how much I was dreading ...

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oh, and I fogot to clarify this.... I take angle of attack to mean the boat's heading. "angle of attack" (as I'm using it to explain the way water moves past the keel) can conveniently be defined as the angle of difference between the boat's heading (along fore and aft axis of the vessel) ...

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you're telling me that leeway causes the boats boat's axis to not be parallel to its direction of travel (course) through the water, Right. causing the keel to present an asymmetric shape not exactly. The keel doesn't really present an assymmetric shape . Rather, by diverting the water along its le...

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I'll take a stab at this one... Simply put, when an object moves through a fluid, that motion causes positive pressure on one side and negative pressure on the other. Differential pressure = lift. not-so-simply put...... Hydrodynamic lift from the keel operates on the same Bernoulli Principle as aer...

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Tim, you prompted me to take another look at the BB25. Yeah, she's a sweetie. The designer in me can't just call it "sweet" and leave it right there, though. I had to go and think analytically about WHY it's so sweet, and how could that be applied to your daysailor project? Overhangs. So m...

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Tim, You are just a photodocumenting maniac! How you can have the presence of mind to stop so frequently to snap photos, I'll never understand. I set out with the best intentions, but somehow as I develop momentum in the work I forget that the camera's sitting there. Do you have any plans/takers for...

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It was something of a "considered impulse" purchase. The excerpts in Woodenboat had me drooling, but when I looked up the price I KNEW I'd never buy it if I just put it on my "want" list. It was now or never, so I splurged. Worth every penny. As for Palawan III, nothing in All Th...

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I recently treated myself to a double book purchase.... 1. "All This and Sailing Too" Autobiography of Olin J. Stephens II's design career. 2. "Lines" A collection of Sparkman & Stephens lines drawings, each with about a 200 word commentary. Though published a few years apart...

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Pan up! I wanna see that hoist rig!

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(refer to "Sometimes it's just so easy" thread) I was wondering aloud how much thrust an Atomic 4 could realistically generate to necessitate a dimple in the propshaft for the setscrew at the engine coupling.... I'd say it's necessary. When I first installed the shaft, I cranked down on th...

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Headroom. That's a tough one.

Moving the forward access path off-center means raising the sole by about 8-12".

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What's the thickness of the core in the triton cabintop? Particularly under the mast step. This weekend's mission is to lay a solid epoxy and fiber base under the mast step (non-compressive connection between mast step and support beam below), and my plan is to use a router to cut the boundary of th...

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oh, yeah, there's a keyway and key for the torque alright. That's why I wonder about the real need for the dimple, which therefore is only responsible for resisting longitudinal thrust.

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Yeah, but then he'd need a barn 1/3 longer than the current triton-sized design!

So Tim, should I sketch up some thoughts on a modular expansion to 60'? ;)

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oh, yeah, I can see it now.... the top blade in the pic is at 12:00 and the bottom is actually at 4:00, not 6:00.

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Just curious: why are you anticipating underwater prop changes? Heh. You caught me. The mentality of my powerboat heritage shines through sometimes. I'm the only sailor in the family. As a youngster I made quite a bit of money doing underwater prop changes. During the coldwater months, particularly...

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Tim, I'm curious.... Are you comparing glass Haven 12 1/2's to wood Havens, or to true Herreschoff 12 1/2's? With the notion of additional wood working wonders for the sterility of the original triton construction, I hear you barking. There's this constant little tickle in the back of my head whispe...

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After finally locating the proper size hose to fit the stuffing box, and then thickening the stern tube to accept this new hose (old hose was not reinforced, and was able to be hose-clamped down to size) the cutless bearing reinstallation finally happened. That propshaft went back into the coupling ...

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The BoatUS newsletter arrived yesterday, complete with a little writeup on the Bermuda/Block Island 40. It was about as good as could be expected from a 3-minute read.

These boats are gorgeous. Serious cruisers. I salivate.

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The "ramblings" section of this forum jolted my memory about an email I'd written to my wife over lunch last summer, entitled "Boaty Ramblings". As fortune would have it, the draft was still in my system, so today I gave it a re-read. Written during summer where little sailing wa...

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Oh, Tim! Creating a forum category specifically dedicated to Vents and Rants? Pandora's Box. eh, I suppose "Moderator" has its privileges. oh, who am I kidding? I write this a bare 5 hours after my stammering "Respect The Sea" rant on the yahoo list. we all have our sore points, ...

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(sigh) You Mainers sure are easily entertained.

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Hey guys, I'm curious about why you'd want to use thickened epoxy in this application? Wouldn't you want the resin to be as "watery" as possible so it can flow easily into all the various voids? Or is it more a concern of adding some kind of aggregate to hold the resin together, and less a...

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Tim, The CD22 is the "typhoon weekender"? I ask because I have a cash job on the line.... a guy wants his typhoon (which I assume to be the CD18) hauled from CT to Freeport sometime this summer. the 18 I can haul, the 22 might be a different story. I thought the typhoon weekender and daysa...

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[quote="D. Fox"]I'd put the Bermuda 40 at the top of my personal list. There's a flag blue example a couple slips down from me...they're incredible. The Bristol 40 is a reasonable alternative. I'd hate to have to maintain either. quote] Is that based on sheer size, or because of some other...

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I know I'm not nearing the end of a multi-year total resoration, but the past few months have been pretty mental-intensive for me, and I'm starting to get really happy to be seeing some results. I believe that after months of destruction and chaos, the RE-assembly phase has begun. The bulkhead insta...

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re: pics of Arapaho under sail....

Man, I just love it when the tender is PLANING under tow!

That is a seriously beautiful yacht. I've never actually SEEN a 41 in person, but I've been drooling over photos and line drawings for years. Oh, but to live in water that would do one of those justice!

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Looking at it now, that is one AWFUL pic of the "access upgrade"!!! I SWEAR , the curves are smooth, not segmented, and they're perfect mirror images of each other! I think the light's playing strangely off of the CPES coating. I probably laid on one coat too many. Nathan, I absolutely agr...

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Tim,

Where did you obtain your chainplates and covers?

-MH

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Where to begin? Perhaps with a brief synopsis. Saturday was rainy, so I spent most of it on the tender, and as far as this larger project was concerned, I merely dry-fit the bulkheads in place, expecting to find high spots that needed grinding. when I found none, I left. Sunday got off to a later st...

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Peel-ply is a smooth nylon or polyester fabric that epoxy and (I think) polyester and vinylester resins can't stick to. I got mine with all the rest of my stuff from System Three, but I think it's a fairly common product available wherever cloth and resin are sold, possibly called "release fabr...

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I suppose you could say I'm planning a hybrid of the two techniques. I'm going to use ordinary rigid insulation foam board as a cushion between hull and bulkhead. Last night I ran a bunch of it through my bandsaw (overkill can be fun!) so I have more than enough trapezoid-shaped stock in a few diffe...

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For those that haven't been following along, the perimeters of #78's chainplate-bearing bulkheads were surveyed to be saturated, and during removal found to be amazingly rotted. The task now at hand is to install new 3/4" fir marine ply bulkheads........ This weekend's forecast is for temperatu...

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The rod should be 5 or 6' long, not too whippy (trolling rod, as opposed to a casting rod because you'll need to muscle the fish around the backstay), and be the kind that comes in 2 sections so storage isn't such a hassle. gung-ho fishing types will laugh at it, but it's really the most appropriate...

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I've got a pair of shark steaks that are getting the citrus-grill treatment tonight. It's going to be a looooong day at work. Unless the weather requires me to pay more attention to the boat, I generally troll an old mackerel lure while sailing. Over the course of a 6hour sailing day, I usually get ...

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An alternative that's been nibbling at me is to locate the bank in the compartment on starboard side across from the head. I dunno what to call this, as I doubt I'll ever use it as a "wet locker". "Catch-all compartment" seems more appropriate. I think this would be ideal in term...

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Hey gang, 1. Where were the batteries located in the original Triton design? 2. Where do you all have them now? #78's batteries (a pair of ordiary automotive-style) are currently in a small wooden box-out that forms the bottom step of the companionway ladder. I'm unhappy with this because there isn'...

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